Cyprus

Staff are feverishly preparing for the new school year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said, explaining that the summer months are especially important to prepare for all the new changes ahead. ...

A paper and plastics recycling factory in the industrial area of Yeri has been destroyed, according to a statement from the Fire Services on Sunday. Specifically, the announcement stated that ...

Architects resign as harbour revamp months behind and contract not followed A baffling combination of incompetence and lack of coordination and controls in the renovation and restoration project of the ...

A 90-year-old man died from heatstroke on Sunday, spokesman of the state health services organisation (Okypy) Pambos Charilaou said, adding that another two elderly people are being monitored for the ...

The WHO warning on the popular sweetener has released a media storm The World Health Organisation’s catergorising of aspartame as a “possible carcinogen” has caused a storm of media ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ move calling for a joint meeting of the anthropological lab of the committee of missing persons (CMP) with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar is a good, lawyer ...

Tucked away between Loulla’s clothing boutique and a medical lab in Polis Chrysochous, lies an unassuming gem-of-a-place, the Polis charity bookshop. Operating from its current premises since 2005 (previously out ...

A woman-led youth organisation aspiring ‘to help every girl thrive’ is hosting the biggest ever conference held in Cyprus by volunteers. The Girl Guides Association of Cyprus (GGAC), which provides ...

Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas is in the United States, where he will sign an agreement for the integration of the National Guard of Cyprus into the State Partnership Programme (SPP), ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Constantinos Kombos is traveling to London and Brussels for several engagements to discuss Cyprus and the Cyprus issue as well as EU-Turkey relations, an announcement from the ...

The International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama has returned this year offering a rich programme of four highly-acclaimed productions that are currently touring the island. The festival opened earlier this ...

A forest fire in Dierona was put under control the forestry department said on Sunday morning, after battling with the blaze through the night. An announcement from the forestry department ...

A 60-year-old woman died, after being hit by car, while attempting to cross the Dhekelia road, police said on Sunday. According to police, just before midnight the 60-year-old expat, Sandra ...

The met office has issued a new orange weather warning for Sunday as temperatures are set to climb past 40 degrees C. According to the met office, which on Saturday had ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting July 10: Invest Cyprus, the national investment promotion agency, on Friday released a statement expressing its support for a ...

The tax break scheme for attracting foreign high earners and bringing in qualified professionals to sectors such as IT has been a success, said the permanent secretary at the finance ...

President Nikos Christodoulides drew criticism on Saturday, after Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades, who represented him, choose to lay a wreath at a memorial for the fallen coup soldiers, on the ...

By Lanting Liu Eighteen Cypriot university athletes will take part in the Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games in China from July 28 to 8 August. They will participate in artistic gymnastics, swimming, ...

The popular, beloved Greek pop star with number-one hits and record-breaking success is coming to our island. Mark your calendars, Foureira fans for September 1 to dance to the singer’s ...

Wounds and trauma are healed with sympathy, prudence, and consensus, practices that the country needs so much in an unstable and turbulent international geopolitical environment, in which democracy itself is ...

Barcelona and Manchester United have been fined by UEFA for breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, European soccer’s governing body said on Friday. Barcelona have been fined 500,000 euros ...

The state condemns in the strongest possible terms everyone who tried to abolish democracy using armed force, giving Turkey the excuse, it was seeking to invade Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

A 31-year-old suspected bomb-maker was remanded into custody for eight days by the Limassol District Court on Saturday. The man was arrested on Friday after testimony linked him another suspect, ...

Firefighters rescued 11 elderly individuals after a fire broke out at a multipurpose centre in Tseri, Nicosia. According to the fire services, the blaze broke out late Friday night in a ...