Educational programme “Imagine” which addresses primary, lower and upper secondary and vocational schools managed to bring together 3665 students and 397 teachers from more than a 100 Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot schools from across Cyprus in the last two academic years. The Bi-communal Technical Committee on Education, which was established after the agreement between
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Washington is moving closer to upgrading US presence in the East Med on energy and security issues that will also see a decades-long arms embargo lifted on weapons to Cyprus. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved bipartisan legislation authored by Bob Menendez and Republican Senator Marco Rubio which updates US strategy in the Eastern Mediterranean to
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In June, economic sentiment deteriorated on weaker business confidence as the Economic Sentiment Indicator decreased by 1.9 points compared with May, the University of Cyprus research centre said. The index dropped from 111.4 points in May to 109.5 in June but on an annual base, sentiment was slightly up 2.2% from 107.1 in June 2018.
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Ryanair said it will continue to grow in Cyprus next winter and will deliver a total of 1.2 million customers annually at Larnaca and Paphos airports, a 30% increase year-on-year. Ryanair expanded its 2019-2020 winter schedule and will deliver 25 routes in total including 7 new routes from Paphos. “Continued growth in Cyprus has put
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Cyprus was among those countries with the highest number and percentage of non-implemented or partially implemented recommendations by the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body GRECO. In its 2018 report, Turkey topped the list of countries with the highest number of non-implemented or only partially implemented recommendations, (33), followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina (23), Greece (19),
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has warned Turkey there will be grave consequences for violating Cyprus waters accusing Ankara of weakness for picking on a country without a proper navy. Tsipras said “everyone knows” that Turkey’s “futile” exploration in waters where Cyprus has economic rights and there is no naval deterrent indicated weakness on Ankara’s
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Fifteen years after it entered the Cyprus market as the first private telecom operator, challenging the monopoly of state-owned Cyta, MTN has been rebranded as Epic following a €260 mln takeover, with ownership once again in European hands. Since the July 12, 2004 auction, winning the island’s second mobile phone license after 11 rounds of
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the memory of former Cyprus president and AKEL leader, Demetris Christofias, who was buried on Tuesday, will always burn bright. Tsipras signed a Book of Condolences at the Presidential Palace, accompanied by Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, with whom he also had a brief meeting. Tsipras wrote in the Book
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Job seekers will get an opportunity to join the Melco group in the first Cyprus Casinos Open Career Day, which will be held on 28 June from 10am-5pm at Columbia Plaza in Limassol. Candidates should bring along their CVs and be prepared for an on-the-spot interview by qualified and experienced members of the C2 Talent
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By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM The Dollar Index (DXY) is trading early Tuesday below the psychological 96 mark and erased all of its year-to-date gains, with G10 and Asian currencies taking advantage of the upside made available by the weaker Greenback. The DXY is clearly on the hunt for a stronger floor, having
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