Cyprus

Candidate for the leadership of Disy, Demetris Demetriou on Saturday said he would wait to see the intentions and choices of president-elect Nikos Christodoulides before shaping the party’s strategy ...

Outgoing health minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Saturday called on his successor to embrace public hospitals and health professionals, underlining that public hospitals are the backbone of the health system. Hadjipantela, ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Saturday said that the Anastasiades administration’s highest priority was the steady development of rural areas and improving the standard of living for those with ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘labour minister’ Hasan Taçoy on Saturday said that 3,800 earthquake victims from Turkey have found refuge in the north since the beginning of the month. Citing data from ...

Limassol municipality said on Saturday it will take part in the city’s big carnival parade with three floats satirising the recent election battle, the glacial progress of the country’...

The 5th CASSINI Hackathon organised by CIP Citizens In Power in Cyprus and held under the auspices of the Cyprus Space Exploration Organization is coming for three days as of ...

More than one hundred tons of aid has been collected in Cyprus for the earthquake victims in Syria and Turkey, director of Limassol Port Panayiotis Agathocleous said on Saturday. Speaking ...

A Syrian man who had earlier this week escaped police custody was on Saturday remanded for eight days by the Larnaca District Court. The 23-year-old was taken there under draconian ...

Police on Saturday said a 56-year-old professor arrested at Larnaca airport on February 16 due to an outstanding international arrest warrant, appeared before the Larnaca District Court on Friday. The 56-year-old ...

A 52-year-old man was on Saturday remanded in police custody for six days after being arrested for people smuggling when a boat carrying 21 men, women and children arrived in the ...

Police on Saturday said the remaining three people arrested as part of investigations into the homophobic attack at a Tepak LGBTI event are set to be released later in the ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘minister of transport and public works’ Erhan Arikli on Saturday said that a new airline based in the north will carry out its first flight on April 16. In ...

A new agenda of concerts, album presentations and workshops are coming to Technopolis 20 next month as the Paphos venue hosts the island’s artists. Starting off its March programme is ...

The Cyprus residents who have remained coronavirus-free for three years “Will this jinx me?” asks Sara. “If you write about me not having had Covid, will I catch it next ...

CIMA: ‘new minister should focus on seasonality, connectivity and marketing’ The Cyprus Incentives and Meetings Associates (CIMA) has called for president-elect Nicos Christodoulides to carefully consider his appointment of a ...

Cyprus’ government debt fell to €23 billion at the end of 2022, reflecting a 3.9 per cent decrease compared to December 2021, according to a report published on Friday by the Public Debt Management ...

The head of the Cyprus association of entertainment venues (Osika) Neophytos Thrasyvoulou on Friday said that high costs and struggles with finding staff continue to be the main issues facing ...

There are “omissions and gaps” in the management of Turkish Cypriot properties with only 65 per cent of them have been granted to refugees, data from the audit office reports showed ...

Students will be able to attend afternoon schools in gymnasiums across the island as of the coming academic year, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday. A gymnasium in every ...

Amidst parents’ concerns over school infrastructure in the north, students of a specific high school decided to abstain until a seismic resistance report is prepared, TC media reported on Friday. ...

Demonstrations against the war in Ukraine were held in Nicosia and Limassol on the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the country. Holding banners and placards, Ukrainians and Russians ...

Famagusta police on Friday said they arrested a 25-year-old man, as the second suspect in a Paralimni burglary committed on February 12. The suspect was found in the morning in Limassol ...

The 23-year-old man who escaped police custody earlier this week on Friday surrendered himself to police headquarters. Police said the suspect was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the robbery ...

Just days before the end of the Anastasiades administration, two of his ministers publicly disagreed Friday on the compensatory measures for landowners connected to the Akamas local plan with Agriculture ...