Cyprus

Paphos district court on Tuesday issued orders to suspend operations in two premises allegedly providing gambling services. According to Paphos CID chief and police spokesman Michalis Nicolaou, two criminal cases ...

On July 19 the Pollinator & Environmental Protection Tasks Force of Rotary Cyprus, represented by Rotaract & Rotary Club Nicosia – Aspelia and the Cyprus University of Technology, successfully donated almost 300 pollinator-friendly ...

In today’s episode, the House of Representatives rejected the referral of three bills by President Nicos Anastasiades in a session of the plenum on Tuesday. Two of the bills ...

A new art exhibition by a new Cyprus-based art institution has been launched. Art100 Cyprus, affiliated with the Art100 Group galleries in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong and New York ...

Another extremely hot day is expected on Wednesday, with met office issuing a yellow alert over extreme heat from 11am to 3pm. Temperatures in the mountains are set to reach 32...

Police in Paphos arrested two people for electricity theft on Tuesday. Electricity theft is the criminal practice of stealing electrical power. It is often accomplished via a variety of means, ...

International rating agency S&P Global Ratings this week announced that it has affirmed its ‘B+/B’ long- and short-term issuer credit ratings for the Bank of Cyprus, maintaining ...

The Gloria Jean’s Coffee franchise in Cyprus will now be under new ownership, with the new owner being Lanitis Entertainment. This marks the end of C.C. Coffee Company’...

Members of the British forces in Cyprus, known affectionately by the nickname the ‘Dog Squadron’, are helping out at the Nicosia Dog Shelter located in the buffer zone. The military ...

The Bank of Cyprus on Tuesday announced that it has been named as the ‘Best Bank’ in Cyprus for 2022 by finance magazine Euromoney. The bank said that the accolade comes ...

Tributes are pouring in for veteran journalist Takis Kounafis who died early on Tuesday aged 77. His funeral will be held on Thursday, at 3.00 pm at Ayios Demetrios church in Acropolis, ...

The Met Office issued a new yellow weather alert over extreme high temperatures, from 11am to 3pm Wednesday. According to the warning, the temperature in the higher mountains is expected ...

There is something about the summer that simply fits with reggae music. The warm sunshine and the laid-back vibes that summer holidays bring seem to be the background scenes for ...

Opposition deputies, lashed out against the government’s commitment to the foreclosures law before rejecting the president’s referral of the three bills they had passed last month. Akel deputy, ...

Cyprus won its first gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Monday night, as judoka Georgios Balarjishvili beat Scotland’s Finlay Allan in the men’s 66kg category. ...

Police on Tuesday seized 17.7 kilos of cocaine and made two arrests in a drug bust carried out in cooperation with Greece’s police (Elas), Sovereign Base Area (SBA) police and ...

Cyprus-based research and development company SignalGeneriX announced its participation in three EU funded defence projects with a funding total of €65 million, describing this as a major success for itself and ...

The Gloria Jean’s Coffee franchise in Cyprus has been sold to Lanitis Entertainment. This marks the end of C.C. Coffee Company’s 16-year ownership of the coffee chain ...

The first case of monkeypox was detected in Cyprus on Tuesday, according to a statement released by the health ministry. The person infected is a 40-year-old man, who tested positive ...

A 46-year-old man who was arrested on Monday in Spain, in connection with case of trafficking of 132kg of cannabis, was remanded in custody for four days by Limassol District ...

The energy ministry said on Tuesday it was accepting applications to help pay for the installation of photovoltaics to charge electrical or hybrid plug-in vehicles. Part of a programme to ...

The Cyprus Marine Environment Protection Association (Cymepa) and the Bank of Cyprus have teamed up to test and analyse the waters in and around the Ayia Napa marina. They presented ...

Awarded for achieving the American Dream, one leading US Cypriot has spent the last 50 years instilling the culture of his ancestral home in his compatriots. PAUL LAMBIS meets him In 2019, ...

Cyprus is one of 14 EU member states to sign up to a joint procurement contract with Spanish pharmaceutical firm Hipra for its protein vaccine against Covid-19. The agreement was signed ...