Cyprus

Easter traditions were marked in Lemba on Sunday where children recreated the Resurrection of Lazarus. The re-enactment, which took place after the end of the church service in the courtyard ...

House near Snake Island sold to Turkish businessman after grandson received it from Denktash The house on the Kyrenia seafront overlooking Snake Island, which the late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf ...

A 43-year-old resident of Paphos and worker at a semi-government authority was on Sunday remanded for eight days by the paphos district court following his arrest on suspicion of forgery ...

The announcement of an increased fiscal surplus for the first two months of the year, amounting to €363m, is further proof that the Cypriot economy has resilience and is based ...

The broader services sector in Cyprus recorded an increase of 6.6 per cent year-on-year in 2022, with accommodation and food services (44.4 per cent), information and communication (15 per cent) and transport and storage (10.8 ...

How the ancient settlement of roundhouses in the Cyprus village of Chirokitia could provide the blueprint for sustainable living on Mars is the focus of the Cyprus stand at the ...

The longest running charity drive on the island reached its peak on Sunday with the holding of the 48th Christodoula March to raise money for cancer charities. The slogan of ...

With dust in the atmosphere until Monday, the weather for Holy Week is set to be unsettled with snow expected on Troodos on Wednesday. On Sunday light rains are expected ...

A 36-year-old man in Famagusta has been arrested after being found in possession of 255g of cannabis. According to the drugs squad, Ykan, at about 5pm on Saturday, its officers ...

Here’s a summary of the top business news stories from the week starting April 3 in Cyprus: Eurobank Cyprus was awarded the “Best Private Banking Boutique in Cyprus” award by ...

With the launch of ChatGPT late last year speculation on its impact on the labour force has been largely negative but those in Cyprus see it could boost productivity, and ...

Afternoon court hearings will start for asylum seekers’ appeals while additional hires in the asylum service are among the measures aiming to speed up the processing of asylum applications, Interior ...

Fasting? It won’t be a problem for the street food festival the Alkinoos Artemiou Foundation and Association of Chefs of Cyprus – Nicosia are organising. The Lent Street Food Festival ...

Parents and teachers said on Saturday they are “satisfied” with this year’s changes on the twice-yearly exams. Following the education ministry’s announcement on the measures for the evaluation ...

The Green Party slammed the president’s “lofty statements” on national environmental policies on Saturday, saying dozens of large trees were cut the same day in the capital. Cyprus, instead ...

Cypriots will be able to share their opinion through electronic non-binding referendums, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. The relevant deputy ministry is already working on how the institution will ...

The Cyprus Tabletop Gaming Day is Cyprus’ very first festival that is exclusively dedicated to tabletop gaming of all kinds. An all-day event in Nicosia on Sunday at the cafeteria ...

A 55-year-old man sentenced to two years in jail for stealing a bronze statue depicting a girl with a hula hoop is facing additional charges after he broke a window ...

A minor who lit up a torch during a football match this week has been arrested for violating the law on violence in sports venues, Paphos police said on Saturday. ...

Officers at a Nicosia crossing point arrested two men, aged 44 and 34, on suspicion of stealing almost €88,500 from a hotel room in Larnaca this week. The two suspects were stopped for ...

Improvised Molotov cocktails and small gas cylinders were found in Dali over the weekend, a week before Easter. The explosives were found by officers following a tip-off on Friday about ...

As part of NiMAC’s ongoing exhibition ‘we can only begin to notice’, which presents non-fiction films by female creators from Cyprus and the Cypriot diaspora, comes a film screening ...

The price of basic household foodstuffs continued to surge into March despite the inflation rate “slowing” to 5.8 per cent, according to the statistical service. The rate of 5.8 per cent was ...

Over the last 70 years, Cyprus’ birth rate has plummeted. Alix Norman asks those who grew up in the 1950s what it was like to be surrounded by crowds of children ...