Cyprus

THE WAY THINGS ARE My two islands have much in common. A reputation for hospitality and friendliness, a history of British occupation, civil strife, emigration, a brain and labour drain ...

Family members of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in Alassa back in 2005, have instructed their lawyers to initiate criminal proceedings against the state, ...

A day out in nature is what Forest and Love has planned for this Sunday with a nature-themed event of the same name. Artist and facilitator Eleni Phyla runs the ...

Cyprus to send rescue team after Turkey accepts By Nikolaos Prakas and Jonathan Shkurko Two of the teachers with the dozens of Turkish Cypriot children were found dead on Wednesday ...

Four people arrested in relation to a case of attempted robbery against a 72-year-old woman were immediately referred for a trial at the Famagusta district court, police said on Wednesday. ...

The met office has issued an orange weather warning from 10pm on Wednesday to 7am on Thursday, warning of extremely low temperatures on the mountains. The minimum temperature in the ...

Disy’s parliamentary leader and long-standing MP Nicos Tornaritis has come out in support of Nikos Christodoulides ahead of the second round of the presidential election. Other big names to ...

The Archbishop of Cyprus Georgios on Wednesday announced every person was free to vote for whoever they wished for the presidential elections. Speaking to reporters after a liturgy, he said “...

Horse trading over the presidential elections was in full swing on Wednesday, with social media awash with public announcements over who would support whom. George Colocasides, who ran for president ...

Due to the severe accumulation of snow, police closed the mountain roads of Troodos and Machaira and limited the traffic on the mountain roads of Limassol and Paphos to four-wheel-drive ...

The fire service on Wednesday said it responded to 14 calls for help in the past 24 hours, five of which were for fires, eight for special services and one false call. ...

In a proud but troubled Cypriot poet and bookworm, THEO PANAYIDES finds someone for whom books themselves have stories, and not just the ones inside them The book is at ...

Police issued a warning on Wednesday that another SMS scam is making the rounds which falsely claims that a person’s bank account has been locked. The text includes a ...

More and more art exhibitions open islandwide this month with three more coming to the local art scene. The Common Room next to Prozak kafeneio in Nicosia will showcase the ...

The Paphos district court issued a five-day remand against a 27 year-woman and a 25-year-old man, accused of being behind a string of kiosk robberies and break-ins. According to Paphos police ...

In today’s episode, the marathon Disy political bureau meeting on Tuesday night called to settle its stance going into the second round of the presidential election eventually backed a ...

The total number of loan restructurings in Cyprus appears to have decelerated in 2022, after their sudden and sharp increase in 2021 due to the adverse economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, ...

APS Group, one of the leading alternative asset management companies in Central, Eastern, and South-eastern Europe, on Tuesday announced that it has acquired a corporate and SME secured loan portfolio ...

Cyprus must stop dragging its feet and finally decide to implement building safety checks, with the Turkey-Syria earthquake serving as a stark reminder of the dangers. Those were the emphatic ...

By Charalampos Theopemptou In Cyprus we have far too many stray cats running around and causing a lot of damage to wildlife. This is because no government up to now ...

The biggest chunk of the stolen bronze statue has been uncovered in a rural area of Tremithousa. The recovered piece includes torso, the head and one hand of the ‘girl ...

Elam will determine who the next president is, according to the party – which has sent a list of questions to be answered by the two remaining presidential candidates. Elam’s ...

The marathon Disy political bureau meeting called to settle its stance going into the second round of the presidential election appeared set to back a free vote and a party ...

There were 25 reports filed to the data protection commissioner’s office over calls spurring voters to back certain candidates. In a statement on Tuesday, commissioner Irene Loizidou-Nicolaidou said the complaints ...