Jean Christou

The minimum wage will go up from €940 to €1,000 a month, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou announced on Wednesday after the cabinet meeting, in a move that has left the island’s ...

The current legislative framework does not ensure the financial independence of the audit service, which is being stymied by the executive branch, it said yesterday in its annual report. The ...

The health ministry has announced the rollout on Thursday of the new Novavax Covid-19 vaccine for those aged 18 and over. The new vaccine, Nuvaxovid BBB.1.5, is a protein-based vaccine, unlike ...

Despite a steady increase in recent years, Cyprus still spends less on health in total than other EU countries – both as current expenditure per capita and as a share of ...

Life expectancy in Cyprus has fallen from 82.4 years in 2020 to 81.7 years in 2022 after dropping to a low of 81.3 years in 2021, according to an EU health report. Despite the drop, life ...

First ever study on history teaching in Europe A significant percentage of history teachers in Cyprus don’t see the benefit or don’t have time for training courses, say ...

After long legal battle authorities told to pay for near-collapse of house in Paphos district A landmark decision from the Paphos district court has for the first time seen authorities ...

Cyprus is committed to increase defence spending to 2 per cent of GDP in the next five years, MPs were told on Friday. Presenting the defence ministry’s 2024 budget to the ...

The Cyprus-based Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) on Friday hailed the landmark announcement by UK regulators approving a revolutionary gene-editing treatment for beta thalassemia and sickle-cell disease “and ushering in a ...

Dozens of Cypriot students went on the march to the US embassy in Nicosia on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 bloody Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military ...

Cyprus and Israel have agreed to a structured dialogue with working groups from each side to thrash out details for the creation of a maritime humanitarian corridor to Gaza, Foreign ...

Some 32 local councils from a total of 350 across the island came under scrutiny on Thursday for lax practices including failure to tender projects, giving contracts to relatives or council members, ...

A trial date of January 25, 2024, has been set for a 34-year-old suspect in an attempted murder case in Paphos in September and the court will meet again on November 22 to ...

The European Commission on Thursday gave a positive assessment of Cyprus’ modified recovery and resilience plan, which includes a REPowerEU chapter. The plan is now worth €1.22 billion – €0.2 billion in loans ...

Hermes Airports said on Thursday they had alerted authorities over a fake Facebook account purporting to show piles of lost luggage being sold for €2.99 apiece at Larnaca airport. The fake ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) is examining potential violations mentioned in the ‘Cyprus Confidential’ papers insofar as they concern credit institutions, it said on Thursday. It said that as ...

The Israeli government is discussing with Cyprus a “major effort” to bring humanitarian aid by sea to the Gaza Strip, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said in an interview with the ...

Within the coming week, the demolition of the first condemned refugee apartment buildings within the Latsia municipality will begin as part of the initial phase of the plan to demolish ...

Tourists are being duped into booking holiday accommodation in the north of the island through online sites that don’t distinguish which side of the divided island they are located, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke on the phone with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday evening, discussing the appointment of a Cyprus envoy, the situation in Pyla and the proposed Cyprus ...

A global investigation on Tuesday claimed to show how Russian influence in Cyprus and on local service providers helped oligarchs and billionaires structure their wealth over the years preceding the 2022 ...

Britain is considering using “air and maritime options” from its bases in Cyprus to get more aid into Gaza, it was reported on Tuesday. According to reports in the UK ...

State doctors, nurses and midwives on Tuesday called on hospitals operator Okypy to implement protocols and security measures to protect healthcare workers from attacks by patients, especially those in the ...

A court of appeal has annulled a decision of the administrative court in a case concerning Turkish Cypriot property where the Guardian, the interior ministry, first gave permission for the ...