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The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ...

Commentators have given the thumbs-down to the coming changes to the tax regime – not so much for any major errors in it, but because it falls short of the government ...

Greek Cypriots found not guilty By Tom Cleaver The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north in July were on Friday found not guilty of the charges they ...

Trade unions on Wednesday accepted the government’s proposal for the future of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), while employers’ organisations rejected it. “The trade union movement, in a spirit of ...

Greek-owned energy company Energean PLC on Monday confirmed it has signed a letter of intent with a Cypriot company for the potential supply of natural gas to Cyprus via pipeline. ...

Cyprus will be assuming the Presidency of the Council of the EU during the first half of 2026. In order to enable discussion of the aims and priorities of the incoming ...

With expectations for a fourth winter of drought ahead and the island’s dams at very low capacity, the agriculture ministry said this week it is examining using cloud seeding ...

The government plans to cover Cyprus’ entire drinking water supply with desalinated water, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Friday. Addressing the House finance committee with her ministry’s budget ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday announced that he will meet United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin for the first time in December, most likely on December 5. He made ...

A “fiscal nuclear bomb” looms over Cyprus due to the risks attached to the LNG import project at Vasiliko as well as the Great Sea Interconnector, an opposition MP said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday called for an “immediate” response from parliament to pass his tax reform plans into law, to allow them to be implemented by the beginning of ...

Cyprus was ranked 30th out of 143 countries in this year’s edition of the World Justice Project (WJP)’s annual rule of law index, moving up a single place since ...

Rainfall this winter could be scant, perhaps even less than last year, a senior officer at the Water Development Department (WDD) said on Monday. Speaking to the public broadcaster, Yianna ...

We often hear about the high price of gold. But it’s only after looking at the relevant charts (here, for instance) that you realise what a truly historic moment ...

Israeli property developer Simon Aykut was on Friday sentenced to five years in prison, after having last week pled guilty to a total of 40 of the charges he faced related ...

Organised crime in Cyprus is now often imported from abroad, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Wednesday. Addressing a behind-closed-doors session of the House legal committee held in light of ...

The government on Tuesday sought to downplay worries that – amid the persistent drought – Cyprus will dry out, insisting it has taken a series of actions ensuring adequate water supply. But ...

Deals were signed on Monday for the commercial development of the Kronos gas reservoir located within offshore Block 6 of Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone. The agreements were inked on the sidelines ...

Pro-reunification candidate Tufan Erhurman was on Sunday elected as Turkish Cypriot leader, unseating pro-two-state solution incumbent Ersin Tatar and winning a record number of votes in an unprecedented landslide victory. ...

Sunday will see Turkish Cypriots head to the polls to elect a leader for the 14th time overall, and for the ninth time since northern Cyprus’ unilateral declaration of independence ...

A well-known Limassol businessman was shot on Friday morning and died on the motorway on the way to hospital. The man, identified as 49-year-old Stavros Demosthenous, was most well-known for ...

The energy ministers of Cyprus and Greece reiterated on Thursday their commitment to work together to bring to fruition the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), in a move de-escalating the apparent ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Wednesday said he had informed top European officials of the government’s “clear disagreement” with the idea of Turkey joining the EU’s Security Action ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Tuesday stuck to his guns, voicing serious reservations about the planned reform of the attorney-general’s office, even as a visiting European Commissioner lent his support ...