Cyprus

Cyprus’ trade deficit reached €2.96 billion for the period between January and May 2022, according to provisional data released by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) on Monday. This represents an increase of ...

Police on Monday arrested three people in relation to the discovery of 13.5 kilograms of cannabis in packages that arrived at Larnaca airport. The suspects are three men, one 23 years old ...

A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling €211,000 from his work, Limassol police said on Monday. His boss, the 54-year-old owner of a company selling electrical goods, made ...

Two men from Inia and Stroumbi were crushed to death after a combine harvester overturned, police said on Monday. The two victims are 53-year-old farmer Nicos Demosthenous, an Inia resident, ...

Electricity bills that will be sent out, will be about 24 per cent more expensive than the last one, an EAC spokesperson has confirmed. Asked about complaints voiced by the consumers ...

The supreme court upheld one of the biggest sentences handed down for transporting cannabis, as an appellant who received just over ten years imprisonment was unsuccessful in his bid to ...

Doctors’ unions and the state health services organisation Okypy on Monday morning signed an agreement about the afternoon operation of state hospitals, which is set to begin on September 1. The ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not be visiting the north of Cyprus on 20 July, the anniversary of the invasion, according to Kibris Postasi newspaper. This has dampened speculation in ...

The first batch of conscripts arrived at National Guard enlistment centres on Monday, the start day of conscription, which will be completed on Friday. Conscripts will be assigned and transferred ...

Any decisions on more Covid-related restrictions would depend on what the members of the scientific advisory team tell the health minister at a meeting scheduled for Wednesday. Health Minister Michalis ...

A fire that broke out in Kritou Terra around 1.30 pm on Monday was brought under control a few hours later as the fire service continued to deal with a second ...

Ninety-eight appointments were made at on-duty clinics island-wide, during their first weekend of operation said the health ministry. On Saturday 93 calls were made to on-duty clinics island-wide, with 37 appointments for ...

The row has deepened between the Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos and the interior ministry over unsuitable and dangerous living quarters, as both sides continue to blame each other. A lack ...

A final proposal for the creation of a minimum wage is expected to be forwarded to the president in September by Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushios, the federation of independent trade ...

One in three people killed in a traffic accident is a driver or passenger of a motorbike, the latest government data showed on Monday. For the 2017-2021 period 30 per cent ...

A high number of poisoned bait traps were uncovered and removed by the game fund as it announced on Monday that by doing so it prevented the deaths of many ...

Health Minister Michalis Hatjipantela has given his go-ahead for the promotion of natural childbirth in Cyprus through joint actions that will be developed with the midwives committee, it was announced ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will head to Madrid on Monday ahead of the Med 9 minister’s meeting that will take place in the autumn. In this context, the ministers of ...

Years of unplanned building without the necessary infrastructure has led to wastewater runoff polluting underground reservoirs and the sea in Trikomo, Turkish Cypriot newspaper Yeniduzen reported on Sunday. President of ...

By Saskia Otterstein The eyes of the martial arts world were on Cyprus recently with over 1100 martial arts fans on the edge of their seats in Skali Aglandjia (Nicosia) for ...

No one has forgotten the heroism of the 13 people who died in the Mari explosion eleven years ago, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday at a service at the site ...

In today’s episode, we hear that the Paphos mayor has hit back at the interior ministry as the row deepens over dangerous and overcrowded buildings. Elsewhere, the health ministry ...

Police arrested a 41-year-old man at around 9am on Sunday morning, following a check at the facilities of a former factory in Aradippou, after receiving a tip-off on suspicious persons ...

The weather on Monday will initially be mostly sunny, although increased clouds will be observed in the west. At noon and early afternoon, there will be temporarily increased clouds in ...