Cyprus

The president of the police officers’ association Isotita (Equality) Nikos Loizides sent a letter to Justice Minister Stephie Dracou complaining about low salaries in the force. In the letter, Loizides ...

Primary school teachers trade union Poed on Thursday reiterated calls for additional permanent positions, saying reliance on a large number of contract teachers creates a series of unnecessary educational and ...

The Cyprus Post said on Thursday that due to staff strikes planned between August 26 – September 9 by mail services in the UK, delays are expected in handling and delivery of mail ...

The administrative court has issued an injunction halting any work to relocate an asphalt plant to the Mitsero area, pending a hearing on the substance of the dispute. Communities living ...

A first responder was assaulted by a tourist early on Thursday morning prompting the state health services organisation (Okypy) to condemn the incident as totally unacceptable. A 24-year-old tourist has ...

By Sarah Coyne Last weekend, we grabbed the opportunity to head for the cooler climes of Amargeti, just 30 minutes from Paphos. If you ignore the signs for Amargeti village, you ...

The foreign ministry on Thursday voiced “disappointment and dissatisfaction” over a recent meeting between the president of Azerbaijan and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, and that Tatar was referred to ...

Whether you are vacationing or working this month, August has some fun to offer to all. Although the cultural scene is a little less active every August as temperatures skyrocket ...

Paphos police have arrested a 43-year-old man suspected of shoplifting, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday. It said that a Polis Chrysochous shopkeeper had spotted the man moving suspiciously ...

Thursday will be mainly fine with local increased cloud at intervals that may lead to some scattered showers. Temperatures will rise to 36C inland, around 31C on the southwest and ...

In today’s episode, Deputy Attorney-general Savvas Angelides has denied accusations of an alleged cover-up in the 2019 “black van” spyware scandal which returned to the news after the spyware affair ...

The Cyprus Post announced on Thursday that the acceptance of postal items to Armenia has resumed for all services.

Limassol police have arrested a 36-year-old man as they investigate the theft of a car. The car was stolen between July 7 and 13. It belonged to a company and was parked ...

Ten illegal gambling establishments were identified and shut down by police officers in Paphos since the beginning of the year. According to a statement released by Paphos police spokesperson Michalis ...

The automatic price indexation of public wages is relatively limited in the euro area, while public pensions are primarily automatically indexed, either fully or partially, to prices and wages, according ...

The market capitalisation of all the shares traded during the month of July on the Cyprus Stock Exchange reached €1.9 billion, according to a statement released by the CSE this week. ...

Suspended sentence for public employee found guilty in bribery case A former ministry of interior engineer has avoided jail for the second time after the Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed ...

The two rivals in Britain’s leadership race to replace Boris Johnson, foreign secretary Liz Truss and former finance minister Rishi Sunak have both pledged support for Cyprus in separate ...

Allegations of animal abuse must be investigated immediately, Attorney-general (AG) Giorgos Savvides said on Wednesday night in a tweet regarding the death of Berton the Savannah cat. “Respect and care ...

Turkey had to wait until 1974 to invade Cyprus because it did not have enough equipment and ships but had wanted to invade the island for ten years, the Speaker of ...

Limassol police on Wednesday arrested a 42-year-old man after he allegedly tried to travel to Greece on the new ferry using forged travel documents. According to police, the man arrived ...

Deputy Attorney-general Savvas Angelides on Wednesday denied accusations of an alleged cover-up in the 2019 ‘black van’ spyware scandal which returned to the news after the spyware affair in Greece. The ...

Cyprus issued a total of 22,190 new residence permits in 2021, the largest number of which went to Russians, according to Eurostat figures released on Wednesday. Some 3,432 of the permits went to ...

Paphos restaurants took the top spot for customer traffic in 2022, as the island’s restaurants saw an increase of customers of between 10 and 15 per cent compared to 2021, but warned that ...