Cyprus

Municipalities on Monday called off the measures they had earlier threatened – including halting payments – over the non-approval of their budgets. In a statement, the Union of Municipalities said that just ...

Most parliamentary parties as well as trade unions on Monday welcomed the government’s intention to undo the hiring freeze on permanent jobs in the public sector, with opposition Disy ...

Romanian airline AnimaWings will operate direct flights between Larnaca and Bucharest three times a week – on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The announcement was made during a presentation held at Larnaca ...

A boat with a reported 21 people aboard capsized off the coast of Cyprus on Monday, with seven people having been confirmed as dead so far. The boat was reportedly located ...

The government has gone back to the drawing board to tweak its bills regarding multiple pensions given to certain state officials, MPs heard on Monday. An official with the finance ...

The prospect of setting up a coordinating body to monitor the implementation of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rulings for cases concerning the Republic of Cyprus was discussed on ...

Cyprus Post has issued a set of special edition stamps celebrating four vintage motorcycles on display at the Cyprus Museum of Classical Motorcycles in Nicosia, which this year is celebrating ...

A 43-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison by Larnaca Criminal court, after being found guilty of torching a shop. The crime was committed on September 3, 2023 when a ...

A 43-year-old man was remanded for eight days over suspected property and vehicle theft at Larnaca District Court on Monday. Police arrested the man at his Oroklini home on Sunday. ...

Interior Minister Konstantinos Ioannou on Monday began the fourth round of regional meetings with community council presidents from the Limassol district. The meetings aimed to review ongoing projects and address ...

Heroic vineyards are located on small islands or in areas subject to hydrogeological instability or whose conditions make mechanisation at least almost impossible. In all cases, these are extremely difficult ...

In the Americas, most people prefer autumn. According to CBS, 45 per cent of the country favours ‘fall’ over any other season. In Australia, summer is the most-loved time of the ...

March 21 is ‘international forest day’ and the forestry department has organised a series of activities for the public to participate in and raise awareness about forests and sustainable management. This ...

Trade unions on Monday warned about potential power blackouts following curtailments in photovoltaic energy production. In the statement, unions representing the Cyprus electricity authority (EAC) – including the organisation of EAC ...

The goal is for the informal enlarged meeting in Geneva to be “a step towards restarting negotiations from where they had been interrupted in the summer of 2017,” government spokesman Konstantinos ...

An Unesco committee conducted a mission in Cyprus to evaluate the implementation of the primary all day school in Ayios Dhometios. A four-member Unesco expert committee were on the island ...

Fire up your brain implants, issue commands to your holographic other-self and be prepared to be dropped into a horrific technological dystopia! Black Mirror, the British sci-fi anthology TV series ...

A neurosurgeon will be paying €170,000 in compensation to a patient for medical negligence, after the doctor’s appeal was thrown out by the Supreme Court last week, it was announced ...

Fire service authorities on Monday raised concerns that some of the recent fires in Larnaca and Paphos may have been deliberately set, according to fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis. Speaking ...

Paphos and Limassol are the districts most under threat of summer water supply interruptions, acting Water Development Department (WDD) director, George Kazantzis said on Monday. Elsewhere Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou ...

Limassol’s municipal council on Monday rejected a €43,000 security fee requested by the police for this year’s carnival parade, igniting a larger conversation about how policing for public events ...

Reports by environmentalists of illegal refreshment stands springing up in Akamas need to be verified, the interior ministry said on Monday. “The Paphos district administration will visit the spots where ...

A 35-year-old man was rescued after the car carrying truck he was driving fell into a ravine, the fire service reported on Monday. According to service spokesman Andreas Kettis, the ...

A damaged section of the pedestrian walkway on Piale Pasha street on Larnaca seafront will be completely repaired, the municipality said on Monday. The damage has been caused by constant ...