Cyprus

A unique one-off ceramics workshop will take place this Sunday at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation as part of its multi-sensory programme Aisthiseis. The morning workshop in Greek will ...

In today’s episode, cabinet on Wednesday decided to postpone implementing the Akamas local development plan for another six months. The cabinet decision also entails a four-month window allowing for ...

Police are searching for a burglar that broke into an apartment, immobilised the owner, and stole her safe, authorities said in Nicosia on Thursday. According to the information provided to ...

President-elect Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday he did not hear anything he didn’t expect to from Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar after the two met earlier in the day. ...

Various indicators only serve to confirm previous forecasts expecting the Cypriot economy to experience a slower growth rate throughout 2023, while managing to avoid a recession, according to a report released ...

Emilios Tannousis, chairman of the Cyprus Investment Funds Association’s training and HR committee, as well as manager of wealth management at the Bank of Cyprus, this week released a ...

President-elect Nicos Christodoulides this week said that he is ready to work closely with the Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV) in order to mutually tackle the challenges facing the Cypriot ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved the creation of an online platform, Cypriots of the diaspora, a project that has been in the works for two years. According to an announcement, ...

Syriza leader and Greece’s Former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to visit Cyprus on Thursday where he will meet various party leaders and president-elect Nikos Christodoulides. He will first ...

Accept-LGBTI Cyprus has condemned what it said is a homophobic attack which took place during a Tepak student union event on Wednesday evening. The LGBTQI+ group posted a video of ...

Two Larnaca police officers were suspended on Wednesday after a 23-year-old escaped custody while they were on duty. The 23-year-old was arrested on Tuesday after a warrant was executed on ...

Larnaca criminal court sentenced a 38-year-old man to two years imprisonment for assisting 16 people with illegal entry into the country. The man was also found guilty of facilitating transportation in ...

A new bill on foster care is being sent to parliament for a vote, Deputy Social Welfare Minster Anastasia Anthousi said on Wednesday following a cabinet meeting. Anthousi said: “The ...

Next month, 6×6 Centre for Photography will host the award-winning photographer Myrto Papadopoulos from Greece for a three-day workshop on documentary photography titled Visual Narratives and Storytelling. And what’s more, ...

Diko is to hold leadership elections by June, in which current leader Nicolas Papadopoulos will again run, it was announced on Wednesday. The party, which gave influential backing to president-elect ...

First Lady Andri Anastasiades on Wednesday expressed her gratitude to all contributors of the Independent Agency for Social Support she helped create in Cyprus in 2015. The purpose of the Independent ...

After years of delays and shifting timetables, work has begun in Vasiliko for the construction of a jetty to facilitate a floating LNG storage and regasification unit (FSRU), but the ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) is lying about the incident involving an elderly woman pictured laying naked in a hospital bed, the doctor Marios Kyriazis said on Wednesday. In ...

The percentage of foreigners a company is allowed to employ and include into collective agreements has been raised from 30 to 50 per cent, Labour Minister Kyriakos Koushos announced on Wednesday. Speaking ...

Environment Commissioner Clelia Vassiliou on Wednesday said her last act in office will be the planting of 100 trees in Aronas, near Aglandjia in honour of the over 3,800 cases of domestic ...

Although thousands have done it PAUL LAMBIS meets a man who has turned it into the basis for a comedy routine Basile Katsikis’ distinct blend of material, improvisation, and characters ...

House president Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday it was grossly offensive that some quarters were suggesting that as a leader she would be guided from ‘behind the scenes’. “There cannot ...

Police in Paralimni said the fire that destroyed the car of a 54-year-old resident at midnight on Tuesday was set maliciously. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency on Wednesday, Paralimni ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will put forward a proposal during his meeting with President-elect Nikos Christodoulides for bicommunal cooperation on earthquake response in Cyprus. The pair are due to ...