Archive 2023

Disy must remain a protagonist in national politics, House President and candidate for the party’s leadership Annita Demetriou said on Friday. About a week before the party’s elections ...

Scaffolding crushed 12 cars in Limassol old town on Friday afternoon causing serious damage. Officials from the labour inspection department saw the timing as fortunate since workers nearby going for lunch ...

A research team of the department of nursing of the Cyprus university of technology (Tepak) is among the ten teams selected for participation in the Cyprus Seeds programme. The team ...

The labour union Peo said on Friday that they will react with lightning fast speed if the state health services organisation (Okypy) continues to ignore the problems being faced by ...

Twelve illegal immigrants were arrested by Turkish Cypriot police in the village of Kazivera west of Morphou, among them an 11-year-old child, reports said on Friday. The reports said that ...

Over €400 million is expected to be made available to the agricultural sector over the next five years by the Cyprus Agricultural Payments Organisation (Capo). Capo commissioner Andreas Kyprianou explained on ...

Hungarian President Katalin Novak said on Friday that no decision had yet been made on whether Budapest would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem next month despite an Israeli ...

Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus is set to make his return soon after recovering from knee surgery but the Brazilian will have to fight for his place, manager Mikel Arteta said ...

New Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas said on Friday he aims to make citizens feel “safe and secure” against any foreign aggression. Giorgallas was speaking during the handover ceremony of the ...

Where do you live? I live in Manchester with my pencils, brushes and paintings What did you have for breakfast? A bowl of oats with cinnamon, apple, and almonds along ...

Of all the TV shows I have enjoyed, one of my favourites has to be The Office. Yes, I know, it’s neither new, nor original for that matter, as ...

Paphos police found illegal drugs in the possession of a 22-year-old driver who tested positive in a narcotest, they announced on Friday. The man was stopped during a traffic check ...

The transport ministry announced on Friday that applications to receive funding for motorcyclists to receive protective equipment and airbags has now closed. The ministry said 1,130 applications for the high power ...

Paris St Germain’s Achraf Hakimi is facing a criminal investigation in France after an allegation of rape was made against him, an official from the Nanterre prosecution office said ...

Oil prices slipped in early trade on Friday but were on track to post gains of nearly 2 per cent for the week as a rebound in China’s factory activity ...

Four people have died in the past week from Covid-19, the health ministry said on Friday, while a further 1,592 new cases were reported. The figures date from February 24 – March 2. Meanwhile, ...

Electronic trading platforms have significantly altered individuals’ and institutions’ investment and trading practices. For traders, the days of using just offline ways of trading have passed with the advent of ...

Every March 21, word lovers around the globe celebrate World Poetry Day, organising special events and readings. Cyprus is always keen to join the celebrations and thankfully, a growing local poetry ...

A three-day mourning period was announced on Friday after the bodies of the two missing Cypriots aboard a train that crashed in Tempi, Greece were identified. 23-year-old student Kyprianos Papaioannou ...

The Paphos administrative court has ruled in favour of a female employee at the municipality, who was forced by the mayor to take a leave of absence due to her ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Friday attended a memorial service for Eoka fighter Grigoris Afxentiou at the imprisoned graves. “His sacrifice is an example of self-sacrifice and tremendous love towards ...

Turkey’s six-party opposition alliance said it would announce its joint candidate next week to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan in the May presidential election, set to be held just three ...

Russian troops and mercenaries were closing off the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, on the cusp of Moscow’s first major victory in ...

Potato farmers in Xylofagou and Ormidia until the middle of the month to file damage complaints about the loss of their crops due to bad weather, the agriculture ministry announced ...