Cyprus

It is an all-time favourite tale teaching lessons of gratitude and the Christmas spirit. Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a classic story told from generation to generation that shares ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday slammed parliament’s decision to extend the foreclosures freeze, saying it ignored both the government’s and central bank’s warnings against this. Petrides ...

Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos said on Friday the final decisions on the reform of the Cyprus pension system would be taken by the new government when it’s installed. Presidential ...

Turkish commando forces are lying in wait to intervene along the UN buffer zone in Cyprus, Foreign Ministry Ioannis Kasoulides said on Friday. Speaking at a house finance committee session, ...

Tomato prices are up almost a euro from €2.24 per kilo to €3.28 as of the latest consumer protection agency report, which logged more modest increases on other products. The Friday report ...

The Organisation of Turkic States has accepted the ‘TRNC’ as a member state with an observer status, as it kicked off its summit in Uzbekistan on Friday. The move sparked ...

Dental clinics at the old Nicosia general hospital will cease operation on November 18, with the public urged to consult other local health centres instead. The health ministry announced on Friday ...

Cyprus’ economy is set for a “considerable slowdown” towards the end of the year due to global headwinds and persistent inflationary pressures, the EU said on Friday in its Autumn ...

Movement is always good for the body, and dance is a good way to get moving. An upcoming workshop in Nicosia with contemporary dancer and choreographer Melissa Garcia Carro aims ...

The Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria Theodoros II arrived on Friday from Cairo, Egypt to be present at the funeral of Archbishop Chrysostomos II. Theodoros II was welcomed at the airport ...

Did you know that Cyprus has a diplomatic office in Tokyo? And that its rental cost for 2023 is budgeted at €240,000? Perhaps the foreign ministry’s rental costs in New York ...

In today’s episode, President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday called France a ‘key strategic partner’ of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, welcoming the growing ties between Nicosia and Paris on ...

A 26-year-old has been arrested after police found him driving under the influence of drugs and with a suspended licence, authorities said on Friday. Just before midnight on Thursday, police ...

An 18-year-old has been remanded for six days as he is suspected of stealing cars and fleeing from the police following a car chase. Police were initially alerted to his ...

A 40-year-old woman is in serious condition at Nicosia General after being hit by a car driven by a 59-year-old man in Strovolos, police said on Friday. According to authorities, ...

Six people died from Covid-19 over the past week, the health ministry announced on Friday, while also reporting another 3,625 cases of the disease. A total of ten people were recorded ...

The Covid Years. Are we still in them or can we now look back on them? It is still hard to tell and they’ve given us a lot to ...

The family of an ex-footballer were on Friday offered temporary residence permits for humanitarian reasons, after their deportation was ordered, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said. Former player Mohamed Kamara from ...

A cruise passenger was flown to Limassol for urgent treatment after experiencing heart attack symptoms while onboard, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) announced on Friday. The cruise-liner was located ...

Traffic cameras are recording about 450 violations each day – mainly for speeding – with a whopping 125,000 incidents logged since the pilot phase was launched on October 25, 2021. Haris Evripides, assistant director of the ...

Police on Thursday arrested three more persons in connection with the murder of a 41-year-old inmate at the Central Prisons. The three individuals being held are all male, aged 53, 38 and 36. ...

The finance ministry on Thursday published a call for a public consultation on a package of seven bills aimed at the smoother implementation of the ‘Mortgage to Rent’ scheme which ...

The House on Thursday voted to again extend a freeze on the repossession of certain categories of properties, despite warnings from the government and the banking industry not to. The ...

Police on Thursday placed under arrest two women in Limassol suspected of stealing some €22,000 worth of merchandise from their employer. The two suspects, aged 52 and 36, worked at the online sales ...