in-cyprus 14 January 2026
The Cyprus Marine Environment Protection Association (CYMEPA) has been officially informed by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) that its funding proposal for the Ecosystems Restoration Education (ERE) initiative—under the LEAF – Learning about Ecosystems and Forests programme—has been selected alongside only three other proposals worldwide.
Filenews 15 January 2026 - by Eleftheria Paizanou
The peculiarities in the composition of a family and especially when it comes to single-parent families in relation to the tax deductions they will receive from income tax from the tax year 2026 are something that particularly troubles the taxpayers of the Tax Department, who prepared many scenarios to manage different cases. The goal is to make a proper distribution of discounts.
The problems that arise mainly concern divorced people who have joint care of their children, who do not live with either the father or the mother. They also concern those who live without a civil partnership but have children from a previous marriage, those who have entered into a civil partnership and many other complicated cases.
Filenews 15 January 2026
The areas that act as "magnets" of the Cypriot real estate market and shape the investment landscape are mapped by the latest analysis by Landbank Analytics. The data, which concern the period January – October 2025, outline a multi-speed market, where Limassol dominates in terms of transaction value, Paphos records the highest average selling prices, while Larnaca and Nicosia lead in terms of transaction volume, attracting mainly mid-budget buyers.
Filenews 15 January 2026
Critical infrastructures of the Republic remained perforated, in terms of security, for seven years (2018-2025) and still remain today, because two tenders for the acquisition of protection systems against the threat from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)-drones were not implemented. And that's because the company chosen couldn't even detect the drones.
The tenders concerned the detection and neutralization of drones.
Filenews 15 January 2026
Deterioration of the weather with a noticeable drop in temperature, snow in the mountains and rain, the Department of Meteorology predicts from tomorrow. Our area is affected by high pressure, which will be replaced by weak low pressure from Friday.
Today the weather will be mostly clear. The winds will be variable weak. The temperature will rise to 15 degrees inland, around 17 on the coast and 6 degrees in the higher mountains, where initially frost will be observed locally.
Filenews 14 January 2026 - by Marilena Panayi
Doctors and other health professionals struggled to cope today as the IT system of the General Health System, although it did not present the same problems as in the previous two days, was still not working normally in the morning.
As a result, protests were provoked again on the part of professionals and patients, while the Minister of Health, Neophytos Charalambidis, held an emergency meeting calling on the Health Insurance Organization and the company that manages the GHS IT system to explain the situation.
Filenews 14 January 2026
The decisions taken by the Council of Ministers regarding the honours that will be paid by the State to the former President of the Republic Giorgos Vassiliou, who passed away late last night, were announced in the afternoon by the Government Spokesman, Mr. Konstantinos Letympiotis.