Consumers should have the choice of healthy foods produced in an environmentally friendly and socially responsible way, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Saturday.

Aspiring unicorn ventures, meaning startup companies reaching a valuation of $1 billion, took centre stage on the second day of the Reflect Festival in Limassol.

The cabinet announced Friday a two-year €570,000 subsidy scheme to promote bicycle use, as part of the €4 million national scheme Energy and Climate and sustainable mobility.

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, Global Director of UN SDSN, has said that Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades’ initiative on climate change is of tremendous significance and pledged to offer full support for its implementation.

The government on Friday presented its new strategy for attracting businesses to Cyprus with emphasis, among others, on high technology, shipping, innovation, and research and development, in a bid to turn the island into a business and trade centre in the wider region and Europe.

Cyprus is already on the technology map but aspires to become a regional hub for science and tech companies, said Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos.

The Cyprus-Egypt memorandum of understanding on cross-border electrical interconnections marks an “important milestone” to promote regional collaboration in the field of energy between the two countries, Energy Minister Natasa Pilidou said on Saturday.

The Ministry of Tourism is putting everything into boosting the island’s seasonality to salvage what’s left of another coronavirus-battered year while laying the groundwork for a strong restart in 2022.

The Cabinet today approved a bill increasing the period of paid maternity leave from 18 weeks to 22 weeks in order to help mothers balance work and family life.

Cyprus remains in the ‘orange zone’ with regard to the rate of spread of the coronavirus, according to the latest update from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).