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While Gesy has been hailed as a hallmark of benefits for the public, experts are raising red flags over the way medication is “freely” prescribed, even over the phone without ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on Friday said it was unacceptable that “subjective views” had been included in two UN reports by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that went “beyond objective facts”. “We ...

Thursday’s meeting between trade unions and employers’ organisations ended in deadlock over reinstating the cost of living allowance (CoLA), with the labour minister – acting as mediator – scrambling to find ...

Internet searches for Cyprus have increased by 30 per cent compared to 2019 thanks to targeted digital marketing carried out by mainly local companies, Deputy Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios said on Wednesday. ...

Patient organisations expressed outrage on Tuesday over allegations that an elderly person was found tied to their hospital bed using bedsheets. Demanding the state health services (Okypy) investigate the matter, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday decided to refer the contentious law that deals with pre-primary education to the Supreme Court. The law has seen much back and forth between MPs, ...

Archbishop Georgios was enthroned as the 76th head of the church on Sunday afternoon, in a ceremony at the Apostolos Varnavas Cathedral in Nicosia. Church bells tolled as he arrived ...

Cyprus is one of only two EU states still without a university hospital Expectations that the start of 2023 would finally see the long-awaited creation of university hospitals in Cyprus were ...

The transport ministry will in the coming days launch a tender process to secure 125 smart traffic lights that will be deployed at key spots in Nicosia and Limassol to ease ...

The official nomination procedure for presidential candidates took place on Thursday where a record 14 hopefuls threw their name in for the top position in the country as each pledged to ...

The UN secretary general’s mission of good offices report detailed a bleak review of and outlook for the Cyprus problem, despite a poll finding that a majority hope for ...

Famagusta police have seized a total of 42kg of cannabis washed up on the beach in several packages, as another 75kg were found on beaches of the area in the ...

By Gina Agapiou and Nick Theodoulou “No reason for concern so far” regarding the surge in China Covid cases, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Monday, as some nations began ...

2022 in review: more migrants are coming than are being processed or sent back and authorities can’t keep up Migration is a polarising topic, although it’s probably fair to ...

Time seems to be passing so quickly that it’s almost hard to believe that three years have gone by since the world was plunged into panic over a pandemic ...

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Friday urged health ministers across the bloc to assess their coronavirus protocols and be well prepared amidst a surge in infections in China. Health ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Thursday threatened to revoke the licences of doctors working in a private hospital in Nicosia who turned away two women in urgent need of medical ...

The House on Wednesday accepted four out of seven referrals made by President Nicos Anastasiades on laws related to the environment, family law, refugee property management and education. The president ...

Some 1,300 people will be hired in the police force and the fire department during the course of 2023, raising the government payroll. According to an earlier briefing to parliament by Justice ...

A railway is much more feasible an option for Cyprus than tram systems, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Monday in an interview giving an overview of a number of ...

Recently, the promised details on the Cyprus problem of Nikos Christodoulides’ election manifesto were made public with great fanfare. I have carefully read the relevant text of some 2,000 words three ...

Outgoing President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday said the goal in Cyprus was to end the occupation and anachronistic guarantees which do not exist except in vassal states, and to apply ...

It was evident from the onset that the legal service was going to go out of its way to defend the actions of drug-squad chief Michalis Katsounotos, lawyers for prison ...

Between two and three trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas has been uncovered in exploratory drilling in block six of Cyprus’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the energy ministry ...