Cyprus

Parliament on Friday voted in favour of amending the constitution on family law, broadening its scope on the cases the courts could hear. With 49 votes in favour and one abstinence, ...

There is an urgent need to find new and efficient ways to attract young referees to football, as well as supporting the existing ones, especially in lower categories of the ...

Inflation in Cyprus rose to 8.7 per cent in November 2022, according to a report released on Friday by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). Meanwhile, the Consumer Price Index rose by 0.54 points ...

Larnaca district court fined two football fans on Friday and banned them from stadium participation, after they were found guilty of violence at a football event which took place on ...

Restoration works have begun on the ancient port of Kyrenia, Turkish Cypriot news sources announced on Friday. According to the news sources water supply, sewage, electricity and telephone infrastructure will ...

Chemical use to deal with rodents has been reduced by half since 2020, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday, saying that they are promoting more ecologically friendly ways to deal ...

Parliament on Friday rejected President Nicos Anastasiades motion to recall a bill putting a freeze on foreclosures until January 2023. The presidential veto was rejected with by 37 MPs, while 15 MPs voted ...

Parliament on Friday voted to introduce mandatory sex education in schools, in a session that House President Annita Demetriou said will go down in history for the low level the ...

MPs approved the government’s second supplementary €345m budget on Friday with 49 votes in favour and one abstention. The key points of the additional budget are €150m to be spent ...

One of the suspects in the murder of Turkish Cypriot inmate, Tansu Cidan, has entered the witness protection programme in order to testify against the main suspect, reports said on ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday addressed the House plenum during his presentation of the government’s economic policy for the coming year, saying that the current administration is submitting ...

The supreme court unanimously approved the attorney-general’s appeal over the 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver who killed a Swedish mother in a fatal Ayia Napa crash earlier ...

Winegrowers in Paphos blocked central Neophytos Nicolaides Avenue in Paphos on Friday morning in protest to the government compensation scheme which they deemed incomplete and unsatisfactory. Prior to the protest, ...

Wargaming Group Limited on Friday announced that on November 30 2022, it reached an agreement to sell a holding of 13.41 per cent (55,337,721 shares) in Hellenic Bank Public Company Limited (“Hellenic Bank”) to ...

Cyprus will reap €4.4 billion from the ‘Cyprus Tomorrow’ plan, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday during the first event over the country’s Recovery and Resilience plan. As part of ...

Unions on Friday accused state health services organisation (Okypy) of delaying talks to reach collective agreements with staff working at state hospitals. In a statement from all the labour unions: ...

The upgrade of the National Guard’s capabilities and equipment is a priority for Cyprus, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Friday, speaking as he awarded green berets to this ...

Two students at a high school in Larnaca were expelled after a fight that saw one of them threaten the other with a knife. The incident occurred on Friday morning. ...

The radiology team of the Paphos general hospital staged an impromptu two-hour work stoppage on Friday morning, citing heavy workload and staff shortages. According to the employees, eight people are ...

The health ministry announced 11 Covid-19 deaths on Friday, nine of which occurred in the past week while a further 4,011 infections were confirmed. That raises the total number of deaths attributed ...

In today’s episode, the HIO has faced renewed criticism for paying extortionate rates on medicines – far more than the government used to before the rollout of the national health ...

This December, Alpha Square presents a Pan-Hellenic premiere of a play that pioneered the depiction of gay lives on stage. Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band was first ...

A 24-year-old man was injured on Thursday night after being attacked by five people near Mackenzie, requiring brief hospital treatment. The incident was reported by the victim’s 48-year-old mother ...

A 17-year-old Limassol resident was arrested on Thursday morning for possession of cannabis after Ykan (drug squad) members searched his house. The Ykan officers searched the residence after securing a ...