Cyprus News

A music festival unlike the rest is coming up in Nicosia on April 19 and 20 as it is dedicated to improvisation and experimental music. Happening for the second time, Breach Festival’...

Cyprus is among five EU states that saw more flights in March this year compared with the same month pre-pandemic, Eurostat data showed on Monday. The island also had the ...

Turkish Cypriot journalist Ulaş Barış was barred from entry to Turkey when he tried to travel there from the north, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Monday. Two days earlier ...

Student accommodation will be constructed for the first time in Cyprus by municipal authorities in Paphos, the city’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos said on Monday. Some 203 student rooms will be ...

Two people have been arrested following a mass fight in the capital in the early morning hours on Monday. Police received information about the fight and an injured person around 2...

Preparations are underway for the eighth annual Fish Festival, Polis Chrysochous Mayor, Yiotis Papachristofis, reported to the Cyprus News Agency on Monday. Free fresh fish and drinks will be offered ...

A burglar who assaulted a woman inside her Limassol residence was remanded for eight days on Monday. The man was arrested after police received a call from a 54-year-old woman ...

Police on Monday are investigating two cases of arson in Nicosia schools. According to a police statement, the arsons happened around 5am on Sunday when police received a call about ...

Limassol police on Sunday arrested two suspects for theft and illegal drugs possession. According to the police, shortly after 9pm, a night patrol approached to inspect a car on a ...

Just a few days remain until the 21st edition of the Cyprus Film Days International Festival lifts the curtain and a special opening ceremony is planned. The festival will officially ...

So far there has been no information about Cypriots stranded in Sudan, according to foreign ministry spokesperson, Theodoros Gotsis. In a post on Twitter on Monday, Gotsis said the ministry’...

Police identified and seized approximately 415,000 pyrotechnic devices since the beginning of the year, of which 413,000 were firecrackers, police announced on Monday. This is the largest amount seized in the last ...

People aged over 65 who live in cities tend to feel they have better health than their age group as a whole, with the share for Cyprus being a little lower ...

On Monday the weather will be sunny and clear with occasional high clouds. Winds will be north-easterly to south-easterly, turning south-westerly to north-westerly in late afternoon, weak to moderate, up ...

Akamas region’s bird and flora information centre has been completed, the Paphos municipality has announced. The aim of the centre is to showcase Akamas region wildlife as well as ...

The European Commission has just published the 2022 edition of the ‘EU Regional Competitiveness Index’. Published every three years since 2010, the Index has been measuring ‘the ability of a region to ...

The average density of litter on Cyprus beaches is 0.2 items per square metre, a bi-communal study showed. The data on beach litter, available from the European Marine Observation and Data ...

Employers are expected to sound the alarm over labour unrest and uncertainty currently plaguing the economy when they meet on April 25 and will be looking to President Nikos Christodoulides for ...

You know it is spring when arts & crafts markets begin to make an appearance. In May, several local organisers are planning one or two-day craft markets to celebrate spring ...

While residents of Cyprus are among the most multilingual on the continent, those born and raised in Britain are the least. Alix Norman finds out more Sixty five per cent ...

Jammed in between the school break, Easter craft workshops and spring markets are several live music nights – a steady, weekly tradition for many of the island’s bars. This April, ...

Here’s a summary of the top business news stories from the week starting April 10: Cyprus’ trade deficit soared by €1 billion in the first two months of 2023, reaching €1.87 billion compared ...

Inland Revenue warned on Saturday that electronic messages are circulating with the government domain @gov.cy purporting to be from the tax office and requesting banking information from recipients “in ...

There is no magic bullet to solve either the Cyprus issue or the unstable economic conditions, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday in his first televised Easter message. “In these ...