Charalambos Stylianou

Carrying placards reading “hands off CoLA”, “CoLA for all” and “the struggle for CoLA does not stop here”, thousands of protesters gathered outside the district administration in Paphos on Thursday ...

Cyprus was brought to a standstill on Thursday, as thousands of workers staged a nationwide strike outside the finance ministry, chanting “Hands off CoLA” and “CoLA for all workers,” demanding ...

Defence lawyer Kostis Efstathiou told the criminal court on Thursday that he would be asking for changes to the bail terms of two monks from the Avakoum monastery, who are ...

House legal affairs committee on Wednesday began discussions on a major reform of the law office. The debate focuses on separating the dual role of the attorney general, with the ...

A 23-year-old man has been arrested at Larnaca airport in connection with a major drug trafficking case involving cannabis, methamphetamine and cocaine, police confirmed on Wednesday. The arrest was made ...

Cyprus will experience widespread disruption on Thursday as a three-hour nationwide strike affects airports, schools and public services amid a dispute over the Cost-of-Living Allowance (CoLA). Hermes Airports confirmed on ...

A solidarity gathering was held on Wednesday outside the central prisons in Nicosia, calling for the immediate release of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz. Supporters demanded his freedom either through a ...

Former House president Demetris Syllouris will not take the stand in the ongoing golden passports trial against him, his lawyer Chris Triantafyllides told the Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday. Instead, ...

The Cost of Living allowance (CoLA) must be modernised so that it responds to society’s needs, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Tuesday, as the island braces for a ...

Lawyers representing the family of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was found dead under a Limassol bridge in 2005, have received death threats since a report into how he died was released, ...

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens will open a branch in Cyprus in October after receiving final approval from the Cypriot government, it announced on Monday, the first time ...

A 32-year-old man was remanded in custody for six days by the Limassol district court on Monday after a fire last week in the Troodos state forest. Police told the ...

In the Limassol hills, the village school has long been the heart of the community. But falling pupil numbers in general and fears stirred by recent wildfires are raising urgent ...

Lawyer Christos Clerides on Friday questioned the Council of Europe’s selection process for the island’s judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Clerides, who represents two ...

Friday marked the start of the 2025-2026 school year for senior school students in Cyprus, and the education ministry pledged the education system would undergo significant changes. The reforms are ...

A 17-year-old boy is in serious condition at Paphos general hospital after being hit by a car late on Thursday night, police said on Friday. The incident occurred at around 10.30...

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty is in Cyprus on Friday for official meetings. He is joined in Nicosia by Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Karim Badawi. ...

Cyprus woke up Friday, to low clouds and patches of mist, with conditions expected to clear gradually into mainly fine weather. The Meteorological Service said that isolated showers may develop ...

Compensation payments of about €44.36 million were made to 4,524 affected depositors and holders of securities from the 2013 banking crisis, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters at the ...

The Cyprus grain producers’ organisation has donated ten tonnes of bulgur wheat and ten tonnes of flour to the Church of Cyprus. The food was made from Cypriot durum wheat ...

A joint appeal has been made to the health ministry by the employers’ and industrialists’ federation (Oev), the Cyprus association of private hospitals (Pasin) and the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA), ...

The government has stepped up efforts to revoke citizenships granted under the Cyprus investment scheme, with new cases identified this week. At a meeting on Wednesday, the cabinet approved the ...

The first ombudsman for patients in Cyprus is expected to be appointed within September, Health Minister Michael Damianou said on Wednesday. He said the new office is now in its ...

Parents of more than 6,000 pupils in Western Limassol municipality have threatened to keep their children home from school on Friday unless the local school authority resolves ongoing staffing and administrative ...