What matters in Cyprus, in brief. New stories appear through the day.
Draft legislation on EU pay transparency rules was ready before the deadline, but April's parliamentary dissolution stalled the process, leaving employers without a clear timetable.
The Meteorological Department has flagged isolated severe thunderstorms between 1pm and 6pm, with the mountains, inland districts and the northwest most at risk.
Global crude prices remain high, and Cypriot drivers and households are likely to feel it at the pump and on electricity bills, as parties criticise the government's support package.
The finance ministry's grants service has pushed back the cut-off for state student support applications for 2025-2026, warning this will be the last extension.
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission has named six platforms it says offer investment or crypto services without authorisation, urging savers to verify firms first.
Depositors and bondholders who lost savings in the 2013 haircut but were never paid will get another chance to apply, as the finance ministry prepares a fresh reimbursement round for 2027.
Central Bank of Cyprus data for August 2026 show deposit rates near the bottom of the euro area while the average rate on new home loans climbed sharply from July.
Work has begun on a half-century-old storm-water culvert under one of the capital’s busiest roads, with officials warning that sections could give way.
A Sunday enforcement campaign across the island targeted riders of motorbikes, mopeds, bicycles and personal mobility devices, with hundreds of other offences also recorded.
A committee at the Filanta complex in Larnaca says a network renting out roughly 30 flats illegally reconnected stolen utilities this week, and that threats followed when residents intervened.
Civil Defence has updated its Polyvios evacuation schemes, handed out radios and begun live drills in communities, the interior minister says, nearly a year after the July 2025 blaze that killed two people.
President Nikos Christodoulides announced a monthly allowance for vulnerable breast cancer patients and free rides from rural areas to oncology centres, following Europa Donna Cyprus proposals.
