The Cyprus Shipping Chamber hosted a luncheon for Cypriot Members of European Parliament at the Hilton Hotel in Nicosia last week, within the framework of its close cooperation with the Cyprus State Representation at the European Union. During the luncheon, members of the CSC board of directors had the opportunity to brief the Cyprus
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Tourist arrivals totalled 124,192 in November compared to 108,093 in the same month last year, recording an increase of 14.9%.on the basis of the results of the Passengers Survey, according to the statistical service Cystat. Tourist arrivals for the January – November period marked an all-time record and totalled 3,098,604 compared to 2,581,057 in
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Hourly labour costs rose by 0.2% in Cyprus, by 1.5% in the euro area (EA19) and by 1.9% in the EU28 in the third quarter of 2016, compared with the same quarter of the previous year, according to Eurostat. The increase in Cyprus was the smallest in the EU. In the second quarter of
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The Cyprus Agricultural Payments Organisation (CAPO) is working at full speed in order to ensure that all farmers receive their subsidies by the end of the month. CAPO board chairman and Commissioner Timis Efthymiou told President Anastasiades while presenting the audited report for 2015, that 90% of subsidies have already been made and the
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Nearly 90% of adults in Cyprus used their smartphones to gain access to the Internet, while 80% of 16 to 74 year olds in the European Union used the Web in 2016. Mobile phones or smart phones were the device most used to surf the Internet, by over three-quarters (79%) of internet users. They were
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Limassol Del Mar, the new Limassol shorefront development, announced its collaboration with ara Design International to undertake the interior design of Buildings A and B. ara Design was established in 1996 by Andre Avedian and Harry Gregory and has, since, been in the forefront of innovative and inspiring the design world, specialising in the
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November data indicated that the UK construction sector continued to rebound from the weak patch recorded on average during the third quarter of 2016, according to industry data. Business activity and incoming new work increased at the strongest pace since March, although both rates of expansion remained much softer than the peaks achieved at the
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. By Antonis Loizou FRICS – Antonis Loizou & Associates Ltd – Real Estate & Project Managers The varying views on the development or not of housing in rural areas in Cyprus and the reaction that followed forced the government to reconsider the to-date non-transparent and rigid rules. The matter had been poorly handled at the
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Kyperounda Winery hosted the ‘Best Young Sommelier 2016’ competition for professionals aged under 35, organised by the Cyprus Sommeliers Association. The winner of the 2016 contest was Soteris Neophytides from the four Seasons in Limassol. The contestants, all of whom must have been working as a sommelier for at least the past year, competed
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. Last Sunday’s municipal election results have shown that voter apathy cannot be ignored and that political party leaders have not realised that they are widely to blame. With voter turnout dropping from one election to the next, it is clear that the public is fed up with the mainstream parties and chose outsiders and
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