Cyprus

By Ioannis Tirkides In a previous article published last week, we examined the political landscape in Cyprus since 2011 against a backdrop of rising right-populism in advanced liberal democracies over the ...

The Green Party expressed strong concern on Friday about construction projects currently underway in Akamas. The works being carried out under the pretext of improving the road network involve deep ...

Financing to political parties has increased by 33 per cent since 2018, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday, throwing in his two cents on a discussion over the consolidated annual funds ...

Additional complaints regarding elder neglect by hospital staff have been brought to light by the care-home owners association on Friday including the case of woman discharged without her clothes. A ...

Police on Friday said they had searched the home of the non-commissioned officer (NCO) who said in a TikTok video that being gay was not natural. The video has since ...

Protestors are set to demonstrate outside the Limassol zoo on Saturday, calling for it to be shut down. The protest will begin at 12pm and is prompted by a series ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on Friday said it was unacceptable that “subjective views” had been included in two UN reports by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that went “beyond objective facts”. “We ...

The scheduled inauguration of the Cetinkaya football club in the UN-controlled buffer zone did not go ahead as planned due to ongoing works, reports from the north said on Friday. ...

Nicosia district court renewed the remand of the seven suspects in the brutal murder of 61-year-old Dorotheos Demetriades in Latsia last week. The court accepted the request of the investigator ...

The Cyprus Economy and Competitiveness Council on Friday published a report outlining a number of recommendations that seek to provide both medium and long-term solutions to the ongoing issue of ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Friday said the state’s goal is to ensure that every citizen can benefit from a good level of healthcare. Speaking after a visit to ...

Four five-star resorts in Cyprus have reduced the consumption and disposal of single-use plastics in the past two years through the SUPMed European project, Cyprus hotels association (Pasyxe) announced on ...

A meeting between all sides in the electricity authority’s (EAC) dispute has been postponed on Friday due to an illness of the Labour minister Kyriacos Koushos. The meeting that ...

Disy presidential candidate, Averof Neophytou, underlined his commitment to a settlement of the Cyprus issue in meetings he had with Cyprus-based ambassadors this week, telling them that a settlement would ...

A 19-year-old man who attempted to steal a €4,000 watch from the wrist of a woman while she was asleep in her house has been arrested in Paphos, police said on ...

Nicosia’s Municipality Square will be renamed to Mayor Lellos Demetriades in honour of the late mayor who served in the post from 1971 until 2001. The municipality also announced that the ...

A 21-year-old man was arrested at Paphos airport for trying to leave Cyprus with a fake ID, police said on Friday. According to police in Paphos, the man was caught ...

President Nicos Anastasides will brief King Charles III about the latest developments on the Cyprus problem during his visit in the UK next week, it was announced on Friday. The ...

We talked to a selection of people on the streets of Limassol – and visited an estate agency, Vivo Realty – to find out more about the hot topic of the very ...

Eight people died from coronavirus in the week January 6 to 12, while 85 people remain hospitalised with the virus, the health ministry said on Friday. The deaths concerned four women and four ...

Cyprus driver Vladimiros Tziortzis has been given the ‘Unicars Motorsport Award’ for 2022 at the 50th celebration of the ‘Elites of the Cyprus Sports Writers Union’ that took place at the ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

Two screenings from Spain’s cinema world will soon hit Nicosia as the Embassy of Spain, Instituto Cervantes and the Friends of Cinema Society collaborate. The screenings will be held ...

In today’s episode, a crucial meeting between trade unions and employers’ organisations has ended in deadlock over reinstating the cost of living allowance (CoLA), with the labour minister – acting ...