COUPLES having a third child could receive a one-off payment of £20,000, if a bill drawn up by the Labour Ministry is approved.
In a bid to combat the low birth rate in Cyprus, the Labour Ministry has prepared a package of incentives that includes one-off payments of £20,000 to families giving birth to their third child and for every child after that.
CYPRUS yesterday opened the first round for the licensing of exploration of offshore oil and gas deposits, signalling to Turkey that its threats over the issue were not going to halt the project.
An official ceremony in Nicosia to launch the first phase was attended by
POLICE carried out a number of raids on betting shops in Paphos on Wednesday night as part of their continuing clampdown on illegal gambling.
Police raided betting shops in Polis Chrysochous and the village of Timi in the Paphos district. In total, nine illicit machines and a sum of cash considered to be illegal earnings were confiscated by Paphos police.
A 17-YEAR-old Limassol boy was arrested on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography, police said yesterday.
The authorities believe he is the youngest person to date found with such material on his computer.
RATES as low as five pounds per person are being offered by the Cyprus Hotel Association (PASYXE) over the bank holiday Green Monday weekend.
Choices are available from a directory featuring 88 hotels and apartment complexes nationwide and are for two persons sharing a studio.
THE waiting list of cardiology patients waiting for catheterisation is shrinking rapidly, following a successful collaboration between the public and private health sectors.
FORMER president Glafcos Clerides had a quiet night following his angiogram on Wednesday, his doctor said yesterday.
Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) the 83-year-old’s personal doctor Iosif Casios said the former president was very well and that his patient continued to recuperate at a good pace.
ALMOST 60,000 foreign nationals arrived in Cyprus for voluntary repatriation during last year’s crisis in Lebanon.
More than 25,000 were nationals of EU member states, 24,000 were North American and Australian nationals, 8,000 Lebanese (from the total of about 60,000, a sizeable percentage were dual nationals of Lebanon) and 1,700 Indians.
AN ISRAELI businessman was remanded in custody for six days by the Larnaca court yesterday on suspicion of buying Greek Cypriot property in the north.
Amir Hayam, 59, was stopped and searched when he landed at Larnaca airport on Wednesday morning on a flight from Tel Aviv.
REGISTRATIONS of motor vehicles rose year on year by 18.4 per cent in January, after an increase of 17.1 per cent in December, thanks to a large cut in excise duties in November.
Total registrations amounted to 5,128 in January, up from 4,332 in January 2006.
The registrations of private saloon cars increased to 4,111 from 3,433 in January last year.
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