Cyprus

Over 16,000 low-income pensioners are set to receive a €190 Easter allowance following a relevant cabinet decision on Wednesday. But the announcement was met with dissatisfaction by the pensioners’ association Ekysy who ...

About three in five Cypriots use social media to be informed, the highest percentage in the EU, the latest Eurobarometer report released on Wednesday showed. However, they are pessimistic about ...

Shady dealings have been uncovered and the police have made arrests for driving licences having been issued on the basis of fake residence permits. The case has led to three ...

Over 40 per cent of motorcyclists and moped drivers killed on the road in Cyprus in 2021 were not wearing a helmet, a European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) report showed on Wednesday. ...

The three-hour work stoppage planned at Paphos General Hospital has been called off, public doctors’ union Pasyki, announced on Wednesday. The work stoppage was scheduled to take place on Thursday ...

Officers of the fire services found a charred body in a Chlorakas apartment early on Wednesday morning. It is understood that the fire broke out at 8.30am with the fire ...

In a brilliant young woman mired in hypocrisy, THEO PANAYIDES finds someone used to ‘bursting bubbles’ in her quest for knowledge, and the course of the island’s national problem ...

Police on Wednesday arrested a 42-year-old man, suspected to be the person who deceived two elderly women by impersonating an electricity authority (EAC) rep to rob them. According to Limassol ...

Minster of Health, Popi Kanari on Tuesday met with the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Cyprus office, Shaikh Irshad Ali, the ministry announced. The minister met to discuss ...

Ever wondered what living in Cyprus in ancient times was like? What the people did for a living all those years ago? What hobbies they had and what games they ...

An artistic project tracing the Green Line and Varosha will be presented as an exhibition this April at NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol. The exhibition presents both documented and fictional ...

In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides warned on Tuesday that fans need to behave otherwise all sporting matches will be held without spectators, following violent clashes at a basketball ...

The fire service on Wednesday responded to a call about smoke coming from a ship docked in Larnaca Marina. According to fire service spokesman, Andreas Kettis, two fire engines, including ...

In an announcement on Wednesday, the Cyprus football federation (Kop) said Thursday’s Apoel-Ael futsal cup final at Kition Sports Centre, will be held without fans, due to the recent ...

Police on Wednesday are investigating a vehicle fire which broke out at dawn in Emba. According to head of Paphos CID, Michalis Nikolaou, around 2 am a fire broke out in ...

Three minors were charged in writing on Wednesday for attempted property destruction in a chapel in Paphos. Police arrested the youths, aged aged 14, 15 and 16, on Tuesday, following interrogation, for setting ...

A yellow weather warning is in place on Wednesday for strong to gale force winds from 9 am to 5 pm. The western and south-western regions of the island are the most ...

The Republic of Cyprus is looking for investors to issue a sustainable bond, the Financial Director of the Public Debt Management Office, Phaidonas Kalozois, said this week. Kalozois had been ...

A yellow weather warning is in place on Wednesday for strong winds from 9 am to 5 pm. The weather will be mainly cloudy and rains are expected at intervals. Light snowfall ...

President Nicos Christodoulides conceded that Cyprus has a way to go to achieve true equality between the sexes, stating that it is a political issue. “Despite the important steps we ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday discussed a bill that would make it harder for electricity consumers to switch suppliers if they have not first settled all their dues with their current supplier. ...

A new hotline for any inquiries related to welfare benefits should go live sometime within the next few days, Deputy Minister for Welfare Marilena Evangelou said on Tuesday. She made ...

The European Commission said on Tuesday it had awarded the first PDO certificate for halloumi (or hellim in Turkish) to a Turkish Cypriot producer. The Commission said the first control ...

Cyprus is the most water impoverished nation in the EU with the island’s needs vastly outstripped by its only source of natural supply: rainfall, the agriculture ministry said on ...