Consultations on an initiative to create a humanitarian maritime corridor to war-stricken Gaza continue through Nicosia’s ongoing contacts with countries in the region. According to a Foreign Ministry statement, the government has been developing an initiative to establish a controlled and sustainable humanitarian sea corridor for days to provide unimpeded and safe humanitarian assistance to
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Cyprus has received an influx of 458 Syrian migrants from Lebanon in one week and is bracing for more as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to spread, officials said. An emergency meeting has been called by the Interior Minister on Monday about the migration flows. Authorities said 194 Syrians arrived late on Saturday aboard four boats
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Successive governments have declared for over a decade that they want to develop the island’s onshore and offshore resources for Cyprus to become an energy hub, linking the Middle East, northern Africa, and southeast Europe. Natural gas would be our saviour, as well as neighbours and European partners, a need made more necessary after the
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Cyprus hasn’t moved too far down the diversity road, with gender equality also proving problematic, while sexual identity is another unspoken sensitive issue. I’m not sure what counts for sex education in school, but if the government acquiesces in approval from the Church, it’s unlikely to explore sexuality or teenage angst but less radical chicken-and-the-egg
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To correct the wrongs in our own “house”, that of the construction industry and the various consultants involved, some of us are not happy, based on our experiences, regarding the quality of the supervision of some consultants in the construction sector. Some consultants want to collect the largest percentage of their design fee and do
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The government plans to drastically reduce or waive a 12% penalty on early pensions if the retiree has contributed at least 40 years of work and contributions at 63, up from the current 33 years. Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said the Social Insurance Fund is sustainable, but the cost to underwrite such a relaxation on
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By Craig Erlam It’s been another tough week for European stock markets which ended in the red once more amid concerns over the economy. Investors have been worried about the eurozone economy for some time and it would appear the ECB shares those concerns. While that may spare the bloc the added pressure of higher
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It is estimated that the number of people who have experimented with cocaine has increased fourfold in the last 20 years, Justice Minister Anna Koukkides Procopiou said. She spoke at a workshop organised by the Police and the Drug Law Enforcement Unit (YKAN) entitled “Illegal Stimulants – Persistent and Emerging Trends” at the University of Cyprus. Procopiou said
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Cyprus is on alert for security reasons, but also due to the large number of people expected to arrive trying to escape the Middle East conflict, said Justice Minister Anna Koukkides Procopiou. On whether satisfactory security measures were being taken, given the volatile situation in the Middle East, Procopiou said: “Unfortunately, the situation is deteriorating daily”.
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An Irish diving instructor who had gone missing while off the Cyprus coast was found dead trapped inside a shipwreck that is a major attraction for divers, authorities said Friday. An intensive search was launched on Thursday after the 66-year-old was reported missing after he didn’t come up from a dive with a colleague at
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