Jean Christou

The fire department said on Wednesday that statistics published on Tuesday showing that Cyprus has the second highest percentage of professional firefighters in the EU were misleading. According to a ...

A survey of the jobs market has found hundreds of vacancies around Cyprus but most in low-paid occupations, also revealing that half of all workers on the island are paid €1,500 ...

Landowners from the Akamas community of Ineia said on Sunday they would block the roads in and out of the Lara area next Sunday as part of measures they’ve ...

The EU has punished Turkey for its behaviour towards Cyprus by freezing several chapters of the accession negotiations, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola was quoted as saying on Sunday. In ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Sunday defended expenditure by his ministry after a public spat with the health insurance organisation (HIO) from whom it is claiming back €120 million for using ...

Turkey’s resolve in the eastern Mediterranean should not be tested, the leader of Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Sunday. Referring to the new mission ...

The people of Famagusta are tired of 48 years of false hopes of return and everything the government is doing is leading nowhere, the mayor of the occupied town has said. ...

Inflation increased by 10.9 per cent year on year in July driven by hikes in electricity, which rose 61.7 per cent and fuel 44.1 per cent during the period, the statistical services announced ...

While the rest of Europe has been experiencing unprecedented temperatures this year, some reaching record levels, Cyprus’ summer 2022 is nothing out of the ordinary and the island has not seen ...

The so-called ‘missing minutes’ of a meeting on July 4, 2017 during Cyprus talks in Crans-Montana were published on Sunday by Phileleftheros, further muddying what happened during the failed negotiations. The talks ...

The three villages of Vavatsinia, Ayioi Vavatsinias and Akapnou, all of which were badly affected by the Arakapas fire last summer, on Sunday said that money donated privately to buy ...

A 31-year-old man tasked with paying a company’s bills has been arrested in Kofinou on suspicion of embezzling almost half a million euros since 2020 by making the pre-signed blank ...

The health ministry on Sunday issued advice for travellers due to the deteriorating situation as regards Covid-19. “The fact that the Covid-19 pandemic has not ended and that SARS-CoV-2 with ...

Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has hit back at the interior ministry which on Saturday called on the municipality to assume its responsibilities after balconies on two buildings collapsed in the ...

A 16th century church icon stolen from the Antifonitis church in the village of Kalograia in the Kyrenia district, which was discovered at an auction house in Switzerland in 2014 was ...

President Nicos Anastasiades promised potato farmers on Wednesday that the government would support them and they should be “absolutely sure of that”. The president was in Xylofagou to open a ...

Ruling Disy leader and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou is on Monday expected to announce a series of ‘radical proposals’ to deal with the inflation crisis, it emerged on Sunday. Neophytou, ...

The percentage of flights to and from Cyprus affected by Europe’s travel chaos is much smaller than in other countries, deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios said on Sunday ...

The government is intensifying its efforts to curb illegal crossings through the buffer zone, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Sunday. “For those who do not care, we refer to ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday he was not aware that Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar would be handing over proposals to a UN official who met separately with the ...

Ruling Disy said on Sunday that as former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was now officially “the willing accomplice in the effort the Diko leadership to return to government at all ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Sunday urged both sides in the Akamas debate to lower the tone, saying the truth of the new plan for the environmentally-sensitive area was somewhere ...

Centre-right Diko’s central committee has unanimously decided to support the candidacy of Nikos Christodoulides for the upcoming presidential elections. The committee met on Sunday to cast their votes following ...

Cyprus would like to function as a regional hub to coordinate responses of neighbouring countries to fires, President Nicos Anastasiades has said. In an interview with Politis following the devastating ...