Cyprus

Electricity from renewables fed into the grid will this year be cut back by an estimated 6 to 8 per cent, to ensure stability of the system, the Transmission System Operator (TSO) ...

Generic medications save consumers millions of euros but yet in Cyprus, beneficiaries of Gesy still don’t trust or choose them, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said on Monday. Generic ...

Lawmakers on Monday expressed contentment with the fact that the women’s Under-16 national basketball team will take part in an upcoming international competition after having been previously excluded. At ...

A 38-year-old Paphos resident was jailed for three-and-a-half years on Monday after being found guilty of about ten robberies. The district court heard that he had broken into and robbed ...

A 37-year-old man has been arrested for a case involving illegal entry into Cyprus. According to a witness statement, he was the driver of a five-metre-long boat, carrying 18 men, including ...

Betting activity in 2022 went up by 22 per cent compared to the previous year, coming to €959 million, the head of the National Betting Authority told MPs on Monday. Ioanna Fiakkou was ...

The ‘TRNC’ flag was on display at the 146th Inter-parliamentary Union summit in Bahrain, alongside the flags of other countries, images that surfaced on the internet showed on Monday. A ...

Newly elected Disy leader Annita Demetriou walked into the party offices to a round of applause and a bouquet of flowers on Monday as she took over the helm of ...

A construction company in the Famagusta area was fined thousands of euros on Monday over a failure to apply work safety measures, the labour inspection department said. The company, Andreas ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis announced on Monday that their governments will institutionalise a coordination body, as a new chapter in Athens and Nicosia relations. “This ...

AI image generation is changing the way we make art. ALIX NORMAN speaks to an expert image creator, who is turning his imaginings of Cyprus into tangible images If the ...

Secondary teacher union Oelmek and the secondary parents’ association on Monday repeated their request for twice-yearly examinations to be scrapped, in a letter addressed to the Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, ...

The glitz, the glamour, the bloopers. There is more to Oscar night than the films says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Despite a drop in ratings in recent years, the Oscars has always ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday spoke of the need to promote and implement an EU action plan aimed at keeping the migratory flow to Cyprus under control. On the ...

Cyprus-based NGO CODECA, whose main goal is to foster and promote social cohesion, development and care, is currently carrying out a project, called “Civilhood”, aimed at enhancing the transition of ...

One school in the north that started operating with tent ‘classrooms’ on Monday was swiftly flooded following heavy rain in Lefkoniko images on social media showed. According to Yeni Duzen, ...

Despite efforts to combat it, the number of children referred for investigation of sexual abuse has remained consistently high for the past two years, with over 400 cases reported annually, Hope ...

The land registry website should be fully restored next week, as technicians have been grappling with a hack which took place last Wednesday. Land registration director Elikkos Elia told the ...

The safe disposal of expired and unwanted pharmaceuticals will soon be regulated by local authorities after legislators agreed to the creation of an NGO to oversee the process, Green party ...

A 27-year-old woman was fined €1,100 by the Larnaca district court on Monday after she was found driving at almost twice the speed on the Nicosia-Larnaca highway. She also had seven ...

The Larnaca municipality has urged all owners of plots of land and open spaces in the district to clean them by removing rubbish, dried grass, wood branches and other unnecessary ...

By Richard Boxall Sunday’s cricket threw up some significant results in the 2023 CCA BAOFinancial T10 Cup. Sri Lanka Lions, who had already finished their matches in group A and ...

A new exhibition will be held in an old museum. Artist Katerina Attalidou will present In the Same Place at The Cyprus Museum from March 18 to September 10. Organised by the ...

The European parliament on Monday will be discussing energy security, migration, asylum policy, spyware and foreign issues, in a plenary meeting lasting from Match 13 to 16, it was announced. The meeting ...