Cyprus

By George Kassianos Next Sunday is Orthodox Easter, the most sacred holiday in the Greek Orthodox faith. Traditional foods and large feasts are an important part of modern Cypriot life. ...

Summer conditions will continue throughout the weekend and on Easter Monday with increased sunshine and temperatures set to rise significantly hovering at around 30C, weather portal Kitas Weather said. For ...

Wedding tourism in Ayia Napa, which has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic for the last two years, is recovering, Maria Ttofini-Tsantila, head of the wedding department of the Ayia ...

By Yiannis Seitanides Cypriot consumers have reacted, as one would expect, to the increased inflationary pressures of recent months by reducing the volume of their purchases at supermarkets and becoming ...

In April 2022, economic sentiment in Cyprus improved as the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI-CypERC) increased by 2.8 points compared with March 2022, as shown by data published by the Economics Research Centre of ...

By Yiannis Seitanides The revision of GDP figures at current prices for 2021, brought Cyprus’ GDP to an all-time high of €23.43 billion during the previous year. Moreover, during this time, the ...

The following laboratories are open for Covid-19 testing on Saturday, April 23. State testing centres will not operate on Easter Sunday and Monday. Nicosia American Medical Center, 215 Spyrou Kyprianou, Strovolos, 0800-0900 ...

The health ministry announced that 18 deaths attributed to Covid-19 occurred during the past week, while 6,115 people tested positive. The health ministry’s data covers the period from 15-21 April and ...

Two men, aged 26, were arrested on Friday for knife possession and driving under the influence of drugs in Paphos. The arrest came as traffic officers who were carrying out checks ...

A teenager driving under the influence of drugs crashed against a police car, resulting to the injury of three officers during a car chase in Nicosia early on Friday. He ...

Paphos police on Friday said they confiscated over 100 firecrackers in Pyla and Polis Chrysochous. Some 80 firecrackers were found during a search in the car of a 19-year-old man who was ...

Deputy Minister for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos on Thursday met with the Paphos Chamber of Commerce and Industry to discuss a number of issues, including digitisation, entrepreneurship, ...

In today’s episode, Hellenic Bank will submit a restructuring plan to the Labour Ministry that will include up to 350 compulsory redundancies this year, its CEO Oliver Gatzke has said, ...

Cyprus is amongst the worst offenders in Europe for prison overcrowding as it ranks the fourth highest, while a report release on Thursday called on states with chronic overcrowding to ...

Police are advising the public to be aware of swindlers who, pretending to be doctors, contact people and demand money in exchange for services. In a statement, the police said ...

A Limassol court on Thursday sentenced a man to three-and-a-half years in prison, having found him guilty on the charges of trafficking persons and living off the proceeds of prostitution. ...

A court has ruled that the state has no responsibility for the bail-in imposed on depositors of Cyprus Popular Bank (CPB) in 2013, when the lender was wound down as part ...

A box of self-tests containing five Covid tests have been price capped at €6, the health ministry said, adding that the measure take effect from Friday. The ministry had previously made ...

The 2021 US Department of State report on human rights in Cyprus shows significant improvements compared with previous years, the government said Thursday, notwithstanding references on Ill-treatment of migrants among other ...

More than 3,700 former national guardsmen who have failed to sign up as reservists have been tracked down in the past few months as a result of closer cooperation between the ...

Hellenic Bank will submit a restructuring plan to the labour ministry that will include up to 350 compulsory redundancies this year, its CEO Oliver Gatzke said on Thursday, a move likely ...

The case of former Volunteerism Commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki who faces 18 charges relating to the alleged forgery of his high school and university diplomas will be referred to the legal service ...

Hellenic Bank on Thursday posted its financial results for the previous year, showing a loss of €11.7 million for 2021. This primarily reflects impairment losses related to the completion of Project Starlight, ...

Serious drug cases are on the rise in Cyprus, according to drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos – who was also asked about the potential legalisation of cannabis. In a wide-ranging interview ...