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A generous €100 million from the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) will be allocated to education reform, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Monday. “Coming out of the pandemic ...

The interior ministry’s housing expenditure is up threefold for 2022, minister Nicos Nouris told the House finance committee during discussion of the ministry’s budget. Nouris said his ministry’s ...

Early ‘general elections’ in the north will take place on January 23, it was announced on Monday. According to reports in the north, ‘parliament president’ Onder Sennaroglu, announced that all parties ...

The government green-lit close to 400 passports for foreign nationals applying under the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme, after the scheme was terminated, MPs heard on Monday. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris, while ...

Bahrain was the only country upgraded to the green category of destinations deemed safer for travelling as regards the spread of Covid-19. The latest updates announced by the health ministry, ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Cyprus was in a state of emergency as regards irregular migration, mainly coming through the buffer zone from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the ...

It is still too early to be discussing the 2023 presidential elections, ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou said on Monday after a poll showed Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides leading the running ...

All eligible people must carry proof of identity (e.g. Identity Card, Driver’s Licence, Passport, etc.), for identification purposes. On Tuesday, 9 November 2021, the testing units under the control programme ...

The coming decades will see a greater impact from climate change in Cyprus, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday, stressing the need for changes to the way water is ...

The CovScan application trial period began on Monday as businesses have been mandated that by November 22 they must scan each patron’s SafePass using it. The move, announced earlier this ...

Authorities will install signs warning motorists of the presence of traffic cameras and speed limits, according to an announcement issued on Monday. This was decided during a meeting between the ...

British Bases personnel, units from the UK and Cyprus recently undertook a three-day joint bomb disposal training in Akrotiri to “share best practices and foster working relationships for future collaboration”, ...

Around 65 per cent of Cypriots believe their lives will return to normal after the pandemic, according to a poll published on Sunday but the majority of those think it will ...

But it all comes down to air connectivity and airlines keeping winter flights in place October was this year’s best month by far for tourism as hotels experienced their ...

The health ministry announced on Sunday there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 while 133 positives were recorded from 39,447 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.34 per cent. There ...

COP26 is providing the opportunity to redefine how we get to net zero without drama At a meeting last week at the European Commission’s (EC) EAAS I was asked ...

Nicosia’s former main shopping street to be finished in time for Christmas The long-long-awaited revamp of Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue is set to be completed on December 7, but a ...

Opposition Akel on Sunday called for a meeting of the National Council to discuss a six-page document for a decentralised federation that was drawn up by the Greek Cypriot side ...

The island’s reservoirs are only at just over 50 per cent capacity due to the dearth of rainfall for this time of the year, it was reported on Sunday. The ...

The government hopes the fast-track mechanism it has introduced to simplify processes for foreign businesses wanting to set up operations in Cyprus will finally end the long bureaucratic delays that ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Sunday launched a scathing attack on public service union Pasydy general-secretary Stratis Mattheou who blamed the government for a delay to the ongoing reforms process. ...

It’s time to change the rules over granting Cyprus citizenship In contrast to paragraphs 1 to 5 of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention of 1949, which address the issue of the deportation ...

The pandemic and Brexit created a perfect storm of delays for online shoppers last winter The Post Office is urging shoppers to place online orders as quickly as possible to ...

On Thursday, the government extended the existing Covid measures until December 2. With winter approaching, the Delta+ variant having made an appearance in Cyprus, cases on the rise and infections in ...