Cyprus News

By Charles Ellinas The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) has just published the 2023 edition of its annual ‘Sustainable Development Report’, and it does not make good reading for Cyprus. ...

‘We want to try to tell the Cypriots who we are and where we are coming from’ “Music is a worldwide language,” says Maria Demosthenous. “Its biggest strength is its ...

British High Commissioner Irfan Siddiq exceeded the limits and spoke in a hostile manner, ‘foreign minister’ in the north Tahsin Ertugruloglou told Kibris. The comments considered unacceptable were made by ...

Customers who refuse to download the apps say they are discriminated against Smartphones may be pervasive – that extra appendage we never knew needed – but there is a still a significant ...

After evaluating a tip off from Europol, members of the police’s electronic crime unit on Sunday arrested a 56-year-old man. According to information, the man had in his possession/...

Cyprus and global banking sectors are facing a cocktail of challenges that lead to radical change, banking expert Chris Davis told the Cyprus News Agency on Sunday, underlining that enhancing ...

Residents of the beachside Sotira community help a demonstration on Sunday over proposed changes to the area, closing the exit off the highway leading to Ayia Thekla and Sotira. “We ...

By Patricia Jordan ‘High summer’ in the garden here brings out the amazing flowers of tropical and semi-tropical trees. If you live along the coastline then you will be able ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday defended the decision to lift the subsidy on fuel prices after receiving much criticism from both opposition parties and members of the public. The additional 8.3 ...

Protaras Summer Film Festival to entertain beach crowds this July Film nights under the stars, overlooking the sea and for free! Sounds too good to be true? That is what ...

Wealth inequality is much more severe than income inequality There are many reasons why high and increasing economic inequality is a worrying phenomenon. It can be a problem in itself, ...

Fire fighters rescued a dog that had fallen 200 metres into a ravine, with EMAK setting up a rescue operation. According to fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis, it was a difficult ...

The body of a 20-year-old Cypriot at military school in Greece who died during an exercise on Friday will be flow back to the island on Monday. An autopsy has ...

Police in Limassol were on Sunday investigating after a 77-year-old man reported shots were fired at his car and his home with a pistol or automatic weapon. Officers who went ...

The north suffered a total of 5,277 power cuts in 2022, two times worse than in Pakistan Plans to create an electricity cable link from Turkey to the northern part of Cyprus ...

The family of a 22-year-old British woman critically injured when the quad bike she was driving in Ayia Napa overturned on Monday have launched an appeal raise £60,000 to fly her ...

Pieces of concrete fell from the ceiling into a cell, hitting a prisoner in the prison early on Sunday, guards of the Isotita union announced. Fortunately, the union said, the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos is set to have a meeting in New York with the UN secretary general to underline the island’s readiness to restart negotiations, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Paphos police carried out a campaign against noise pollution on Saturday night, seizing items from three venues, the owners of which were charged. According to the police, the operation was ...

Two people were arrested late on Saturday after trying to leave Larnaca airport on travel documents that did not belong to them. According to police, shortly after 4pm a 24-year-old ...

We talk to Sander Strijthagen, a Dutch man living in Limassol, who’s been blind since being diagnosed with a rare nerve disease six years ago at the age of 38. ...

Police have seized a large amount of cannabis and arrested a 46-year-old man, the force announced on Sunday, after carrying out an operation with German authorities and the customs department. ...

Police are searching for a 41-year-old man following the arrest of a 21-year-old after a 25-year-old was stabbed in what police believe to be a drugs trade. The 21-year-old was ...

Police were on Sunday investigating how a 35-year-old year motorcyclist died in a traffic accident in Limassol on Saturday evening. According to police, at around 5.20pm on Paphos street a ...