Cyprus News

The Cyprus Mail continues its series of articles with the main presidential candidates. We have reprinted their responses in the order we received them. Today, we pose questions to Christos ...

The Cyprus Association of Renewable Energy Companies (Seapek) on Thursday slammed the electricity provider and the government over the lack of preparation in the RES sector that was now leading ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday evening called on people to vote for Disy candidate Averof Neophytou in Sunday’s elections, saying any other outcome would be unthinkable. “On Sunday we ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Thursday warned credit-acquiring companies (CACs) not to proceed with foreclosing on properties where the borrower has applied for a government-sponsored debt relief scheme. In a ...

The United States imposed sanctions on 22 individuals and entities in multiple countries that it accused of being tied to a global sanctions evasion network supporting Russia’s military-industrial complex. The ...

Two men aged 55 and 37 were on Thursday remanded by the Paphos court for four days on suspicion of stealing a 70kg bronze statue worth €10,000 from a public place. A 43-year-old ...

Over the last few days authorities have seized and confiscated over 15kg of cannabis sent to Cyprus via courier services. In a statement, police said that on January 27 local law ...

A number of staffers involved with the Turkish Cypriot Property Management Service may face criminal charges for acquiring property they were not entitled to, it emerged on Thursday. The development ...

A total of 700 new police officers will be recruited by the police force in 2023, according to police chief Stelios Papatheodorou. Speaking to journalists after the inauguration of a new police ...

Another €35 million is being allocated in subsidies for people to upgrade their homes to be more energy efficient following the success of the previous round of grants which clocked up ...

Presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades on Thursday released a list outlining 12 key priorities of his potential administration should he get elected. The list includes policy proposals and future measures on a ...

Lending rates in Cyprus rose again in December 2022, with deposit rates also moving higher amid the European Central Bank’s normalisation of key interest rates, according to a report released ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis and Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios met with representatives of the World Bank on Thursday, who gave their advice on a potential tourism strategy for ...

A series of new family workshops and creative performances will take place this month at Nicosia’s Majestic State Gallery, bringing young ones closer to artistic expression. On Saturday afternoon, ...

Deok union blasted the government’s stance on foreign workers on Thursday accusing Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos of sidelining workers’ rights and paving the way for companies to hire third-country ...

The subsidy for the cost of electricity consumption from September 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023 amounted to €58.4 million, the finance ministry said on Thursday. In an announcement, the ministry said that it had ...

Reservoirs are less full than last year despite frequent rain over the past week, with total reserves standing at 67.2 per cent compared with 75.9 per cent this time last year, the ...

Blood stocks in Cyprus are at dangerously low levels and present amounts will only last three weeks, said the head of the blood bank Androula Panayiotou. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

The cost of the presidential elections is estimated at €7 million based on the appropriations included in the interior ministry’s 2023 budget. This was up from €5.2m for the 2018 presidential elections. ...

Human rights organisations and NGOs in the north on Friday are set to hold a demonstration outside a court in Trikomo, where a 21-year-old suspected of murdering 16-year-old girl Zehie ...

Undecided over who to vote for in the upcoming presidential elections? A team from Cyprus’ university of technology (Tepak) has prepared a list of 22 questions for voters, which can tell ...

Archbishop Georgios is open to lifting the 2015 excommunication of theologian Andreas Pitsillides if he withdraws “his heretical views” on the Orthodox faith, it was reported on Thursday. According to ‘sources’ ...

Cyprus has been classed as a ‘flawed democracy’, ranking 37th in the list of countries analysed by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) 2022 Democracy Index. The position on the table ...

I remember the days when some people would laugh knowing I lived in Larnaca saying ‘it’s only good for the airport!’ I think it’s pretty safe to say ...