Half of the Cyprus population has registered with the new General Healthcare System said the country’s Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou. Ioannou said that “almost 400,000 beneficiaries have registered, while a satisfactory number of general practitioners and pediatricians has signed up”. He added that "as far as other services such as pharmacies, clinical laboratories and radiology,
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European elections are often drab affairs with low turnout but in Cyprus, the EU vote is breaking taboos with a Turkish Cypriot MEP expected to be elected for the first time on the ethnically divided island. On an island where the majority Greek Cypriot and minority Turkish Cypriot communities are divided by barbed wire and
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After more than a year, Turkish Cypriot newspaper publisher and MEP candidate has been acquitted of offending Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan. A Turkish Cypriot court in Nicosia dismissed a lawsuit against the newspaper filed by Turkey’s Ambassador Derya Kanbay in the Turkish occupied north, after the paper had republished a cartoon (originally shown in the
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades said the government will double expenditure on developing technology and increase private contribution as part of a 2019-2023 national strategy on Research and Innovation. He said that having adopted a proposal dubbed “Innovate Cyprus”, the government proceeds with a series of reforms to create new productive sectors of development, with research,
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Cyprus aims to reduce non-performing loans (NPLs) of Cypriot banks to a single digit rate, said Minister of Finance Harris Georgiades. He said the Finance Ministry has set the “ambitious goal for the reduction of NPLs to a single digit rate in the next twelve months”. Since their peak, during the financial crisis years, toxic
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Cyprus is hit by a mini-heatwave with temperatures soaring 9 degrees above average for May to almost touch a sweltering 40 degrees Celsius maximum. While normal temperatures for the island in May usually around 30, Wednesday saw temperatures rise to a scorching 39.3 degrees Celsius. The weather service said the higher than average temperatures will
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Cyprus and France have stated their intention in writing to cooperate in strengthening Cypriot naval capabilities and for a broader strategic cooperation between the two naval forces. French Defence Minister Florence Parly and her Cypriot counterpart Savvas Angelides held discussions in Paris. Parly condemned the recent Turkish provocations in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) reaffirming
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Cyprus still seems to be dissatisfied with the position of its close partner Britain over remarks a UK minister said about “disputed waters” in reference to Turkey’s bid to drill off the island’s coast. High Commissioner to the UK Euripides Evriviades met Minister for Europe Sir Alan Duncan at the Foreign Office to convey Nicosia’s
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Pleasure cruise boats and small passenger vessels operating off the coast of Cyprus are to benefit from a ‘de minimis’ plan in order to improve their safety, accessibility and emission levels. The Deputy Ministry of Shipping, now also tasked with monitoring coastal services, including licensing of small boats, is introducing the plan in September with
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Cyprus’ economy expanded by 3.5% in the first quarter of 2019 on an annual basis, racking up 17 quarters of consecutive growth, official data showed Wednesday. Compared with the previous quarter, GDP grew by 0.9% in Q1 2019, the same rate as Q4, while based on seasonally and working day adjusted data, annual GDP growth
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