Archive 2024

Public hospital doctors will stage a 24-hour strike on June 20, threatening escalated measures on July 2 and 3 if they are not compensated in full for the hours they put in. In ...

A charity fashion show takes place this week by Perwoll for the 8th consecutive year. Held at the Open Amphitheatre of the University of Nicosia on Thursday, the fashion show ...

A 63-year-old woman died on Monday, after she lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a building in Nicosia. The woman, Froso Diogenous, was driving at around 2am on ...

Russian politicians gloated on Monday over heavy defeats for the parties of French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in European Parliament elections, and the Kremlin said right-wing ...

“Here we are, staring down the barrel of 50 years. How do we face it? “We’re not in Cyprus; we’re half a world away. And even if we were ...

Hellenic Bank actively supports various initiatives to enhance financial literacy, including the ‘Financial Alphabet’ programme, the final event of which was hosted at the bank’s headquarters in Nicosia. According ...

A car crash at midday closed off the Kofinou-Larnaca highway, near Alethriko exit, with police trying to move the vehicles and restore traffic flow. Police said the crash happened at ...

Total registrations of motor vehicles in Cyprus experienced a decrease of 9.6 per cent year-on-year in May of this year, dropping to 4,292 vehicles from 4,747 in May 2023, according to a report released ...

President of the Famagusta Hoteliers Association (Pasyxe) Panayiotis Constantinou remains cautiously optimistic about the future of tourist bookings in the Famagusta district, despite the challenging circumstances currently plaguing the tourism ...

Turkish Cypriots on Monday started to react to the loss of their sole MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek, who failed to win re-election on Sunday. Among the first to react was journalist ...

Restaurants and bars in Cyprus saw their attendance increase to 75 per cent of their overall capacity during May, according to Neophytos Thrasyvoulou, president of the Federation of Leisure Centre Owners (...

A siren is blaring somewhere in the distance, a high-pitched sound that nobody pays attention to anymore. Twisted metal, shattered glass and debris are all that is left of a ...

The election of social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou to the European parliament is something “we have never seen before”, elections expert Yiannis Mavris said on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Fiscal Council president Michalis Persianis on Monday issued a series of recommendations and suggestions to the Interior Minister, following an analysis of the fiscal impact expected from the local government ...

Limassol and Polemidia gained new mayors, official results showed with Yiannis Armeftis gaining the former position and Andros Theodorou the latter. Voters chose Demos Katshis as the deputy mayor of ...

Progress towards implementing the liquefied natural gas terminal at Vasiliko will be on the House energy committee’s agenda on Tuesday when it reconvenes following the elections. Energy Minister George ...

Real Madrid will decline FIFA’s invitation to participate in the Club World Cup as the governing body have undervalued the compensation the 15-times Champions League winners should receive, manager ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will join a call for action on Gaza in Amman, Jordan on Tuesday, aiming at finding ways to address the ongoing humanitarian disaster. Call for Action: Urgent ...

Sunday’s storm accounted for 25 per cent of the average rainfall for June, the Met office said on Monday. Until Sunday, June had been completely dry in Cyprus except for ...

The race for local administration seats on Sunday was a thriller at times, as some community leaders were elected by as small a margin as one vote. Chief returning officer ...

The national court refers a legal question of interpretation of EU law and the acts of its institutions to the ECJ Article 1A of the constitution enshrines the supremacy of ...

Long gone are the times when space used to be a matter of scientific observations and defense strategies restricted to only a few. In the past decade, the industry, dating ...

Incumbents securing victory in Sunday’s local elections was theme also followed in Ayia Napa where mayor Christos Zannettou retained his position as did Simos Ioannou in Famagusta. Antonis Christou ...

In Paphos Phedonas Pedonos was re-elected as mayor of Paphos following local elections on Sunday with Angelos Onisiforou becoming deputy mayor. Meanwhile, mayor of the eastern Paphos municipality was won ...