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The minimum wage is set to be adjusted and “substantially improved” twice, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said before the House finance committee during its discussion of the ministry’s 2026 budget ...

A new app promises to improve the rental market by filtering out bad tenants – but it’s unlikely to solve the dire situation in Cyprus. The app is called the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday praised the “extremely constructive” approach taken by Cyprus regarding relations between the European Union and Turkey, as it prepares to undertake the Council of ...

An agreement was signed on Thursday to bring to an end the months of wrangling between workers and employers over the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) and set how it is implemented ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday offered his well wishes in both of Cyprus’ official languages – Turkish and Greek – as well as in English, as two strong earthquakes struck ...

A wild Wednesday of weather and seismological activity saw Cyprus struck by two earthquakes measuring above five on the Richter scale, while large swathes of the island were also hit ...

The government’s financial watchdog on Tuesday slammed the Water Development Department (WDD) hard over its lax checks of water usage and its ongoing failure to properly invoice for water ...

The interior minister on Monday revealed a set of ambitious goals for next year, including making housing affordable and slashing red tape. Constantinos Ioannou was speaking in parliament during a ...

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 ...