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Cabinet will hold an informal meeting at the Troodos presidential retreat where the ministers will present their goals and priorities to see how these can best be achieved. The meeting ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel has announced the names of the members of his new cabinet, after performing a cabinet reshuffle on Friday. The highest profile move is ...

Meanwhile, the House ethics committee on Wednesday discussed a revamp of the ‘sources of wealth’ legislation for state officials, in the hope of widening its scope and including judges. MPs ...

The labour ministry intends to bring before the cabinet a bill on regulating working from home next Thursday, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Tuesday. Speaking before the House labour ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday approved a vacation subsidy scheme for low-income pensioners in Cyprus, allowing them to take discounted holidays in resorts and hotels located in rural areas of ...

The cabinet on Friday approved an interior ministry proposal to review the criteria for the naturalisation of third country nationals. According to Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, the proposal is mainly ...

Three investors had their Cypriot passports revoked after a Cabinet decision on Wednesday, that also stripped the individuals’ wives and children from their Cypriot documentation. According to government spokesman Konstantinos ...

Cabinet on Monday sought to crunch down on combating and responding to fires, ahead of the dangerous summer season. To begin with, the agriculture ministry’s permanent secretary will now ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved the education ministry’s proposed amendments for the student evaluation system for lyceum and technical education, which will be sent to the House shortly, Education Minister ...

Oh well, the president has appointed his cabinet! The favoured few… not much we can do… His personal choice, his personal taste and yes, why not, possibly suggestions made by ...

President Nicos Christodoulides pressed his new cabinet to not allow a single euro to go to waste from the available EU funds of the Recovery and Resilience programme. In short, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides called on his new ministers to raise the bar high and keep their tone low, as his new cabinet was sworn in on Wednesday. In his speech, ...

The first political act of a newly-elected president is the selection of the people who will make up the council of ministers, the executive’s decision-making body. The choices made ...

Shortly after taking the oath of office on Tuesday, new President Nikos Christodoulides said he welcomes criticism of his appointments after it was pointed out to him that he had ...

Despite pledging that his cabinet would be made up of new faces, half of which would be women, new President Nikos Christodoulides named a council of ministers that did not ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Andria Kades President-elect Nikos Christodoulides officially announced his new cabinet on Monday, after lengthy speculation and horse-trading over who would be given top posts in the ...

The composition of the new cabinet will be announced as planned, president-elect Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday at a memorial service for Eoka fighter Grigoris Afxentiou at Machairas monastery. He ...

President-elect Nikos Christodoulides kept everyone guessing on Thursday as to the composition of his incoming administration, saying only that he’d announce his cabinet early next week – Monday or Tuesday ...

Subsidies for electricity bills have been extended for another two months in a bid to tackle inflationary pressures, the Cabinet decided on Wednesday. The budget amounts to €30 million for the ...

Everything will happen in good time, President-elect Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday when asked about the formation of his new cabinet. After voting in the elections for bishop of Paphos ...

Newly-elected president Nikos Christodoulides started holding high-level meetings and deliberations while he is expected to make personal contacts with those he intends to include in his government next week. The ...

Outgoing President, Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday accepted the resignation of the chairman of the board of the CyBC, Michalis Michael. However it was decided that Michael would not be replaced ...

A minute’s silence was observed by the council of ministers at the start of Wednesday’s session for the victims of the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria. President ...

Cabinet on Wednesday rubberstamped the ‘mortgage to rent’ scheme, and some €240,000 as compensation for damages incurred during last month’s flooding. The funds will go to Larnaca and Famagusta which ...