Cyprus News

Pride celebrations on the island are still on and coming up this weekend is an event that does more than simply give the message of love and acceptance but also ...

Teachers on a waiting list to be given positions at state schools have started an online petition to not have the list replaced by another list of teachers awaiting to ...

The House commerce committee on Tuesday condemned a “unilateral” decision by the finance ministry to increase the minimum spend by third-country tourists to make them eligible for VAT returns. The ...

Lawmakers said on Tuesday they want to pass a package of bills relating to the issuing of title deeds to refugees or people classed as enclaved before the summer recess. ...

Dust levels in May were the worst for that month in the past five years, the latest readings by Care-C research center at the Cyprus Institute showed on Tuesday. The ...

The trial of a man accused of killing 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot Zehie Helin Reessur in the north in January is set to restart on June 20. The trial of Sefer Buğ...

Cypriot printmaker Hambis Tsangaris has been named among the winners of this year’s European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, it was announced on Tuesday. The EU initiative celebrates and ...

Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos on Tuesday said the primary sector in Cyprus and in the EU in general needs to focus its efforts on achieving climate neutrality by 2050. Speaking on ...

Patients undergo “unimaginable suffering” because of an ongoing spat between physiotherapists and the and the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), the federation of patients’ associations said on Tuesday. They called on ...

Comments spurring hate speech against the LGBTIQ+ community are condemnable and authorities must intervene immediately to tackle the slew of latest complaints, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides said on Tuesday. She ...

Parts of Cyprus will be mapped with 3D imaging in the coming days, multinational tech company ‘Here’ announced on Tuesday. The company said the goal is to create detailed digital ...

The issuance of Additional Tier 1 (AT1) capital bonds has generated significant interest, following the exchange of the previous, more expensive AT1 bonds worth €220 million, with an interest rate of 12.50 per ...

Former Kiti bishop Chrysostomos will be put on a sabbatical until his appeal against a guilty sexual assault verdict concludes, the Holy Synod decided on Tuesday. Speaking after the meeting, ...

Ten years after he first took on the post, Diko president Nicholas Papadopoulos on Tuesday was the only party member to register his candidacy to lead the party after elections ...

Turkish Cypriot media on Tuesday reported that the 315kg of halloumi seized by police from a private vehicle in Paphos on Monday originated in the north. The cheese did not ...

Doing the things she loves and showcasing the island to the world are what drive a local filmmaker finds PAUL LAMBIS With the completion of her second full-length feature The ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday ruled in favour of a Russian citizen who argued his lengthy detention in Cyprus pending extradition violated his rights. According to ...

Cyprus Airways carried more than four times the number of passengers in May than the same month last year, it announced on Tuesday. A total of 66,998 passengers flew with Cyprus ...

Europe will not be whole until Cyprus is reunited, President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said on Tuesday as she welcomed President Nikos Christodoulides to Strasbourg. “You are not ...

Appalling conditions and overcrowding at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital resurfaced on Tuesday, following the publication of pictures of the facility on social media. Increased admissions, medicine shortages, chronic understaffing, and ...

The new University of Limassol held its opening ceremony on Monday evening, with Education Minister Athina Michailidou promising innovative teaching methods which connect easily with the labour market. Michailidou told ...

A brazen attempted robbery took place in Kissonerga in the early hours of Tuesday as a van rammed into a shop, but the attacker left empty handed. Police detailed that ...

The ‘presidency’ in the north released a statement on Monday night rubbishing journalist Serhat İncirli’s claims he was ejected from talks between Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and Turkish ...

Opposition party Akel on Tuesday lambasted the interior minister’s positive spin on the migration agreement announced last Thursday by the EU ministerial council. In its statements, Akel bashed the ...