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A few months before leaving office, Nicos Anastasiades toured the country opening new projects, laying foundation stones and making speeches about his government’s contribution to different towns and communities. ...

Approval just takes too long, developers tell buyers seeking competitive loans from the Housing Finance Corporation The state-owned Housing Finance Corporation (HFC, better known in Greek as Οργανισμός Χρηματοδοτήσεως Στέγης) was seen as ...

The government intends to hold all matches without the presence of fans if the violence in the stadiums continues, President Nikos Christodoulides emphasised on Saturday. Following last week’s incidents ...

Parties on Saturday slammed President Nikos Christodoulides for handing out political favours with appointments made to semi-governmental organisations. Criticism came from various political factions, which slammed the sloppy handling by ...

Epidemiologist Petros Kararyiannis on Saturday appealed to the public, especially the elderly and vulnerable groups, to get vaccinated to protect themselves from Covid-19. The Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Virology ...

Restarting works in Akamas would be a terrible mistake, head of the Green Party Giorgos Perdikis said on Friday after a meeting with Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou. Calling the matter ...

The audit office said on Friday it was going to report Cyprus’ long-delayed project for the creation of a liquefied natural gas arrival terminal at Vasiliko to the European Prosecutor’...

A new bill to restrict taxi drivers from the north offering their services in the south has been submitted to parliament by the transport ministry. The bill is set to ...

Turkish Cypriots must “recognise that their homeland is the Republic of Cyprus”, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday. Speaking at an event marking the name day of Cyprus’ first ...

The Houthi movement “do not pose an immediate threat to Cyprus,” British Defence Minister Grant Shapps said on Friday. Shapps was speaking to journalists outside Cyprus’ Presidential palace following a ...

Cyprus on Friday described as “an unpleasant development” the decision by Russia barring entry into its territory to three Cypriot officials connected with the deportation from the island of a ...

Paphos police announced on Friday the arrest of a man in connection with the torching of a police officer’s car. The man, aged 43 and from Limassol, was arrested on ...

Cyprus needs to formulate a national strategy to tackle organised crime, according to Cypriot professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Cyprus Andreas Kapardis. Speaking to the ...

Under pressure from the media, some parties and the auditor-general, the government has decided to rationalise the law surrounding multiple pensions. Permanent secretary at the finance ministry Giorgos Panteli said ...

The government took a swipe at the UN on Thursday, calling on it to be objective in the way it presents events and facts after it took offence by statements ...

Elderly tenants in an apartment building have been left without an elevator for three months by the landlady, leading to the death of one elderly man with heart problems who, ...

The third defendant in the golden passports trial pleaded not guilty on Thursday during a hearing at Nicosia criminal court, while a new state prosecutor has been assigned to the ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) and the Footballers’ Association (Pasp) both called for radical measures to combat football violence following a meeting on Thursday. A set of suggested measures were ...

Nikos Christodoulides is one of the “richest presidents in Europe” in relation to average salaries, according to a study released on Wednesday. The study compares the annual gross salaries of ...

In response to the surge of criminal activities throughout Cyprus in recent weeks, police chief Stelios Papatheodorou has proposed the deployment of armed patrols in the streets, it was announced ...

The treasury has referred the issue of multiple state pensions to the attorney-general for legal consultation, Cyprus’ accountant-general Andreas Antoniades said on Thursday. His statements came days after his office ...

A public prosecutor’s car was set ablaze on Tuesday evening in Paphos. Four weeks earlier, a bomb was placed under the car of another Paphos-based state counsel outside her ...

The UN believes that it is possible to find a mutually acceptable solution to the Cyprus problem and we have not given up after 60 years, Colin Stewart, Special Representative and ...

Doubts were raised on Wednesday as to how Cyprus will manage to implement an upcoming EU directive to micro-chip cats and dogs sold at pet stores or by breeders. “I ...