President Nicos Anastasiades has referred the contentious sex education bill back to parliament, deeming it unconstitutional. Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou had argued that the government found the bill unconstitutional as introducing a lesson designed for sexually educating students would violate a regulation on school timetables. The minister had said regulating school timetables falls under his
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Last year, Cyprus had Europe’s second-largest increase in passengers travelling by air (105%) in 2021 compared to 2020, according to Eurostat. The total number of passengers travelling by air in the EU was 373 million, a substantial increase of 35% from 2020, after a strong decline of 73% (from 2019) due to pandemic restrictions. Looking
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President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday signed the foreclosures law extension until January, despite the government’s previous insistence on defrosting it. In an unexpected move, the President signed the law he had referred back to parliament two weeks earlier. The law amendment, passed in November, sees the foreclosures freeze extended until the end of January 2023.
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The power supply could be endangered by electricity authority staff deciding to pull the plug on six out-of-date steam turbines at the Dhekelia power station that pollutes the environment. In comments to the Financial Mirror, the spokesperson for the Electricity Authority of Cyprus, Christina Papadopoulou, said that although the EAC is on the same page
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If it comes, Europe can expect a mild and relatively short-lived economic recession as high inflation is tamed, said Cyprus Central Bank governor Constantinos Herodotou. He said the ECB’s objective is to restore and stabilise inflation at 2% in the medium term and maintain financial stability. He commented during a panel discussion at the Bloomberg Global Regulatory
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President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met at an UN-hosted festive reception, but there was little to cheer about on the Cyprus issue. During Wednesday’s end-of-year reception at Ledra Palace, in the Nicosia buffer zone, the two leaders had a 10-minute discussion with UN head of mission Colin Stewart. Afterwards, the two
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A 31-year-old man suspected of shooting at a car with three passengers inside, injuring a six-year-old boy, was remanded in custody for eight days on Thursday. Police said the suspect admitted his involvement in the Oroklini shooting outside Larnaca that injured a 42-year-old man and the child while naming a second accomplice, who is wanted.
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President Nicos Anastasiades is promoting an initiative to involve the European Union to avert any new Turkish aggression on the island and create conditions for a settlement ahead of elections in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. Anastasiades said he does not expect social meetings, such as the one with the Turkish Cypriot leader during a UN event on
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Cypriot Philippos Philis, President of European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA), made it on Lloyd’s List of the 10 most influential shipping personalities for Maritime Regulatory Affairs. The Cyprus Shipping Chamber said the Secretary General of ECSA Sotiris Raptis is also on the List. The Chamber welcomed his addition to the List. It underlined that under
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A lunar sample collected 50 years ago during the US Apollo 17 mission in December 1972 is now on display in Cyprus. According to a US Embassy post on its Facebook account, “this piece of extraterrestrial history will be on public display December 8-10 and December 14-15 at the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation – Apollo
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