Cyprus

Attorney General George Savvides has filed an appeal against a Larnaca district court decision to suspend the prison sentence handed down to a doctor who was found guilty of causing ...

Personnel from the agriculture ministry’s environment department, members of the civil servants’ union Pasydy, will stage a two-hour protest on Friday between 9pm and 11pm. The protest rally will ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has been invited to visit Ukraine, when possible, by his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. Anastasiades announced on Thursday that he spoke with Zelensky over the phone, where the ...

As police step up traffic checks amid a spike in road fatalities, the transport ministry on Thursday launched its incentive plan for the purchase of protective equipment for motorcyclists. Applications ...

I enjoy trying different cuisines, flavours, and dishes from different parts of the world. However, finding truly authentic restaurants that are a decent representation of the cuisine they offer might ...

The English School staff union (ESSA) staged an impromptu work stoppage on Thursday morning to protest the management of the school. The union said it proceeded with the demonstration because ...

Police have made three arrests for car theft, catching two of the suspects with one of the two stolen vehicles. In an announcement on Thursday, police said that at around 6.45 ...

Limassol police are investigating a case of online fraud after receiving a complaint on Wednesday from a 66-year-old man who reported having been robbed of €88,930. The man said that, around ...

Diko’s executive bureau has decided to propose to the central committee that the party back independent presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides in the February elections. The central committee is expected ...

In today’s episode, the two firefighting planes sent by the Cyprus government on Wednesday to help fight the big fire in the northern part of the island were back ...

Thursday will be mainly fine with temperatures about 2C above the seasonal average at 37C inland, remaining at the same levels on Friday. According to the early morning forecast issued ...

The Cyprus economy and competitiveness council on Wednesday recommended the establishment of a new deputy ministry for the environment and sustainability. The recommendation for the creation of a new deputy ...

The cabinet of ministers this week approved a bill amending the income tax law so that the existing tax exemption for the amount of investment in an approved small-to-medium innovative ...

Cyprus, the land of strays, exports up to 5,000 dogs and cats every year, deputies heard at the house environment committee on Wednesday. In the last seven years, some 30,000 dogs have ...

The Cyprus Ports Authority (Alk) on Wednesday said that the commercialisation of the Larnaca port has been one of the most important events that took place in the Cyprus maritime ...

The senior police officer, who allegedly colluded with an inmate to damage the reputation of the central prisons director Anna Aristotelous, was on Wednesday suspended until July 20. Justice Minister Stefi ...

The fire that broke out in the Kotsiatis area on Wednesday after noon and later spread outside the former landfill was put under control later in the day according to ...

President Anastasiades left for Brussels on Wednesday to take part in the European Council meetings. On the agenda of the European summit, which will be held on Thursday and Friday ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has repeated that a solution based on bizonal federation was non-functional and that there was no turning back from the two-state solution now backed by ...

Confusion reigned the house education committee on Wednesday as deputies discussed state scholarships for university study, with the vague aim of making them fairer. The possibility of amending the legislation ...

Batches of locally produced frozen pork ‘sheftalia’ and chicken burgers were withdrawn from the market due to a salmonella link, the health ministry’s health services announced on Wednesday. The ...

The villages of Flamoudi and Ardana in the north were evacuated by Turkish Cypriot authorities in the early hours of Thursday after a huge fire broke out in Kantara, on ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 30-year-old woman for illegal possession and carriage of ‘explosives’, the Paphos police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou said on Wednesday. The ‘explosives’ referred to by the police ...

Pastry chef Michael Mavromoustakis created optical illusion desserts during a chocolate master class for professional chefs at Intercollege in Nicosia. During the 10-hour workshop, professional pastry chefs made a set ...