In today's episode, officials on Tuesday reiterated there currently exists no practical way to bring down energy costs, which have a knock-on effect on the prices of goods, as one MP warned that certain segments of the population face “annihilation” due to the high cost of living.

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos rubbished the idea that diaspora Cypriots in the US could sway the US elections, ahead of a meeting President Nikos Christodoulides was slated to have at the White House with US President Joe Biden.

Elsewhere, the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus is investigating Monday’s incident in Deneia, where a Turkish army officer allegedly threatened a farmer, while he was tending his field in the buffer zone.

All this and more in the Cyprus Beat briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.