Cyprus

On Monday the weather will be mostly clear. Winds will be mainly north-easterly to south-easterly, light to moderate up to 4 Beaufort. The sea will be somewhat rough. Temperatures will rise ...

Christmas is looming but for some of us this won’t be the most wonderful time of the year How much can you actually say in 15 minutes? For certain care ...

Easing relocations for foreign workers in the tech sector by smoothing the legal procedures and bureaucracy were among the top priorities the presidential candidates highlighted in an English-language debate earlier ...

Demonstrators at Limassol zoo on Sunday said they would continue their protests until the facility is closed down. “We’re not kidding. We cannot let animals live in these conditions. ...

The last few days of the year have a range of events discovers ELENI PHILIPPOU The end of the year is fast approaching and Nicosia’s What’s On calendar ...

Christmas traditions: They can be heart-warming, motivating and downright scary In some Cypriot mountain villages on Christmas night, it is customary to leave the doors of one’s house open, ...

By lunchtime only 15.4 per cent of people entitled to take part in the election for a new Archbishop had voted, Archbishopric elections commissioner Ioannis Charilaou said on Sunday. Specifically, of ...

For the third year in a row empty beer barrels have been used to create a large Christmas tree outside the Nicosia pub BR Hub. Made from 75 empty beer kegs, ...

In the past decade no opportunity on the Cyprus problem has been left untapped, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. Speaking to the political magazine Politikoi, he said until his ...

Nurses union Pasyno on Sunday threatened to take legal measures against the ministry of health and the state health services Okypy after another member was attacked while treating a patient, ...

Voting in the elections for a new Archbishop on Sunday, President Nicos Anastasiades said he hoped the “best would be elected”. “Each Archbishop is also the spiritual leader of the ...

Police have arrested a 46-year-old man after a further 18 irregular migrants were picked up in Cape Greco shortly after midnight on Sunday morning. According to police, shortly after midnight eight ...

The churches will be full on Sunday as elections are held for the next archbishop, even though the popular vote may not definitively influence the position the Holy Synod will ...

Police’s underwater demolition team swam 1.5 kilometres on Saturday as part of an event to support children with cancer. Police chief Stelios Papatheodorou kicked off the event. Participants swam in ...

A walking tour at the Natura 2000 protected area of Larnaca salt lake was held on Saturday by Pandoteira project and Larnaca municipality. People who participated in the tour had the ...

The animal party is mobilising with other groups to form a human chain around Limassol zoo on Sunday to protest against its continued existence following a series of scandals related ...

Homeless people were sleeping at the Larnaca brick house that was damaged by a fire early on Saturday, the fire service said in its statement. Three fire engines from Larnaca ...

A second suspect has been remanded for seven days in connection with the abduction of a 23-year-old man earlier this week in Paphos. Police had arrested the 29-year-old man as ...

Limassol-based rating agency Capital Intelligence this week announced that it has upgraded the Long-Term Foreign Currency Rating (LT FCR) of the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) to ‘BB’, from ‘BB-‘. In ...

In the last seven months, a total of 4,000 irregular migrants have been deported from the breakaway state in the north, according to the “minister of the interior”, Ziya Ozturkler, Turkish ...

Larnaca is continuing to spray against the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, as weather conditions are enabling their growth, the municipality announced on Friday. The health ministry and municipality are also working ...

John Patrick Shanley’s renowned play Doubt, written in 2004, won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, and became widely known through its film adaptation in 2008. Starring Meryl Streep ...

The Bank of Cyprus was named Bank of the Year in Cyprus for 2022 by the international magazine ‘The Banker’. According to an announcement from the Bank of Cyprus, Panicos Nicolaou, ...

Innovative company Irerobot is aiming to establish a significant presence in the EU research and development ecosystem, focusing on projects that have a positive human, social and environmental impact. The ...