Archive 2024

The Limassol district court on Friday issued a four-day detention order against a 33-year-old man in connection with the theft of electric cables belonging to the Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC) ...

Costume maker and professional cosplayer Ahmet Mamali won first place in ‘Best Craftsmanship’ at this year’s Middle East Film and Comic Con held in Abu Dhabi. Mamali’s costume ...

Theatre lovers in Cyprus have plenty to enjoy this season as local productions are touring, be it amateur shows or established theatre companies. Most of them are in Greek – as ...

Healthcare was at the forefront of discussions between Health Minister Michael Damianos and Greek Deputy Health Minister Marios Themistocleous during the latter’s official visit to Cyprus on Friday. Damianos ...

Around 250 seconded nurses are being forced to perform other duties in addition to or instead of their own jobs, leaving hospitals short of nurses, nurses’ union Pasyno chairman Christos Christodoulou ...

Opposition party Akel accused President Nikos Christodoulides of “only caring about his public image” on Friday. The party was reacting to the government’s latest round of economic measures aimed ...

U.S. President Joe Biden is set to host Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on May 9 in the Turkish leader’s first bilateral visit to Washington since Donald Trump ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties are resisting pressure to lift exemptions of religious students from military duty, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s struggles to preserve his coalition and spread the wartime ...

CBC governor Constantinos Herodotou on Friday addressed the “Digital Financial Literacy: the Way Forward” conference, held by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). The conference aimed to explore the multifaceted ...

The Republic of Cyprus “can offer solutions to European, international, and regional problems,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Speaking to students in Athens, Christodoulides spoke about the “Amalthea” plan – ...

The Paphos Regional Tourism Board (Etap) recently completed a survey revealing that the district has a capacity of approximately 20,000 beds, across 6,000 self-catering accommodation units, which includes villas, houses, and apartments. ...

Turkish Cypriot social media journalist Serdinc Maypa appeared in court on Friday, accused of violating people’s right to privacy. Maypa, who had gained a large social media following in ...

By Alexandra Shkuratova In the spin off show Berlin, the Netflix series that follows the iconic character from Money Heist, viewers are taken on a journey into Berlin’s past ...

Where do you live? All around Cyprus. No kidding, it depends on the day, as the last past months I chose to live a nomadic life between Nicosia and my ...

Russian prosecutors have asked the justice ministry to consider labelling Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, as a “foreign agent”, a move that would officially designate Russia’s ...

The all-new LBX, the compact SUV raising the standards in its class, and setting the bar even higher for Lexus, was unveiled recently at Nicosia’s Lexus Centre. The new ...

The Cyprus Pulmonology Society on Friday sounded the alarm over high levels of dust in the atmosphere. Increased levels of dust have been blown northwards towards Cyprus from the Sahara ...

A total of 34 bicommunal business ventures have applied for this year’s Stelios Foundation Bicommunal Business Awards. The businesses, all of which are fronted by one Turkish Cypriot and one ...

Earlier in March, Leptos Group offered a dynamic presence at the prestigious event, MIPIM 2024, held in Cannes on the French Riviera. MIPIM is the world’s premier real estate and ...

Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras kicked off his re-election campaign on Friday with a video on YouTube. Vyras, who became mayor on New Year’s day in 2017, said that he had ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has decided to maintain the countercyclical buffer rate at 1 per cent, with effect from June 2, 2024. According to a statement by the CBC, “in accordance ...

Cypriot football giants Apoel on Friday unveiled its plans for the new stadium it is set to build. The stadium will be located in the village of Kokkinotrimithia and will ...

The PwC Cyprus Foundation participated for the second consecutive year in an initiative that sought to promote financial literacy among the youth, held during Global Money Week, which took place ...

King Charles is due to make his first public appearance at a royal event since his cancer diagnosis on Sunday, but the likely absence of son Prince William and the ...