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The government said on Monday it will look into the possibility of price caps on essential goods, in a bid to deal with inflationary trends. Speaking in parliament during the ...

People aged 60 and over will be able to get a booster shot against Covid-19 as of Tuesday, the health ministry announced on Monday. Eligible are people who have completed their ...

Italy was upgraded to the green category while four other countries were downgraded in the country rankings for travellers, the health ministry announced on Monday. The changes, which will be ...

Human trafficking remains a high profit and low risk crime which worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic with the increase of risk factors, Gender Equality Commissioner Josephine Antoniou said on Monday. ...

Ruling Disy has pledged there would be no return to the economic polices that led to the advent of food banks in Cyprus following the 2013 financial crisis on the island. ...

As of Monday, people who failed to return for their second Covid jab will be considered unvaccinated and must pay for their rapid tests, which are free for the vaccinated. ...

The health ministry on Sunday announced one death and 99 Covid-19 positives out of 38,627 PCR and rapid tests, with a positivity rate of 0.26 per cent. The death concerned a woman aged 60 ...

Two issues: the status of the buffer zone and the failure to return rejected asylum seekers to countries designated as safe The interior minister this week called for “drastic measures” ...

But state aid for troubled wineries has not quite been all it seems After a disastrous last year, a return of tourists, a good grape harvest and government support schemes ...

The people with the power to combat corruption and collusion are the very ones who benefit from perpetuating them The “Pandora Papers” are a cooperative international project of a large ...

By Les Manison Comparative data for 2021Q2 published by the ECB under its Single Supervisory Mechanism, reveal that the three largest Cypriot banks performed poorly relative to most of their ...

We caught up with Unite Cyprus Now, the (still very active) bicommunal group whose street protests were much in the news in summer 2017, at the time of the talks on ...

The data being made available on Covid is often inadequate Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, the rallying cry has been ‘Follow the science’. But a more useful motto might be ‘Follow ...

High fuel costs, shipping costs and animal feed have combined to see food prices spiral Essential foodstuffs like bread, milk and meat may see a price surge of up to 20 ...

Although inflationary pressures have been evident in the last couple of months, they were largely ignored. When the 38 per cent increase in the electricity rates hit the news, the government ...

CONGRATS to Xylophagou mayor Georgios Tasou and his municipal council for their publicity stunt with the big dick potato (BDP), of the Spunta variety, they have placed at the entrance ...

Two deaths and 126 new coronavirus cases were reported by the health ministry on Saturday after 44,460 PCR and rapid tests. The deaths concerned two men, aged 76 and 80, who both died at ...

The complete independence of the fire service from the police was “a necessity” that was implemented 60 years after the first discussions, former Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou said on Saturday. He ...

Cyprus is processing the proposals of the European Commission regarding ways to deal with rising electricity prices, Energy Minister Natasa Pilidou said on Saturday. According to the minister, the Cyprus ...

The United Nations and the European Union cannot continue to “turn a blind eye” to the “inhuman and unacceptable” practices of the north, Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiou said on Saturday. ...

The Cyprus-Egypt memorandum of understanding on cross-border electrical interconnections marks an “important milestone” to promote regional collaboration in the field of energy between the two countries, Energy Minister Natasa Pilidou ...

People only understand harsh punishments and strict fines and that’s what it will take to stop people buying petrol in the north, the head of the association of petrol ...

Last Monday foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Plus TV that any more Turkish moves aimed at opening the fenced area of Varosha would affect any efforts to find a ...

Officials are putting the final touches to a draft bill on gender identity – a revamp of a previous version that was drafted in 2019, Law Commissioner Louisa Christodoulides Zannettou told a ...