Cyprus News

Limassol-based rating agency Capital Intelligence this week announced that it has upgraded the Long-Term Foreign Currency Rating (LT FCR) of the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) to ‘BB’, from ‘BB-‘. In ...

In the last seven months, a total of 4,000 irregular migrants have been deported from the breakaway state in the north, according to the “minister of the interior”, Ziya Ozturkler, Turkish ...

Larnaca is continuing to spray against the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, as weather conditions are enabling their growth, the municipality announced on Friday. The health ministry and municipality are also working ...

John Patrick Shanley’s renowned play Doubt, written in 2004, won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, and became widely known through its film adaptation in 2008. Starring Meryl Streep ...

The Bank of Cyprus was named Bank of the Year in Cyprus for 2022 by the international magazine ‘The Banker’. According to an announcement from the Bank of Cyprus, Panicos Nicolaou, ...

Innovative company Irerobot is aiming to establish a significant presence in the EU research and development ecosystem, focusing on projects that have a positive human, social and environmental impact. The ...

The scandal of mobile phone use in the Nicosia prison deepened this week as the company tasked with upgrading the system to deactivate phones said it had inadvertently reconnected some ...

The island’s social insurance service on Friday announced changes to social insurance contributions from January next year. According to the Social Insurance Laws of 2010-2022, as of January 2023, the ...

Panicos Nicolaou’s term in office as Chief Executive Officer (Ceo) of the Bank of Cyprus has been extended for another 4 years. During meetings on Friday, the Boards of Directors ...

By Sarah Ktisti New turmoil and serious problems are afoot at Limassol port due to the tariff increases that the port’s managing companies have decided to impose, with exports ...

The island’s Finance Ministry on Friday said it will introduce a 15 per cent minimum corporate tax rate on multinational and domestic groups or companies with a combined annual turnover ...

A dinner between President Nicos Anastasiades and Ersin Tatar is scheduled to take place at the end of January as Anastasiades’ term in power comes to a close and in ...

An episode of Masterchef Turkey was filmed in the ghost town Varosha, where contestants were asked to cook Cypriot dishes, reports in the north said on Friday. The episode featured ...

One more Open Mic Night is taking place at Yfantourgeio theWorkplace just before the year ends. On December 27, the Third Open Mic event organised by Queer Collective CY will welcome ...

Turkish Cypriot pharmacies are the latest victims of the Turkish lira crisis as medicine shortages in the north have spiked in recent weeks, dangerously affecting patients who depend on certain ...

The state health services Okypy is doing everything possible to tackle the increasing number of children in hospital during the winter period, it said on Friday amid increasing unrest across ...

Outgoing US ambassador to Cyprus Judith Garber on Friday presented House President Annita Demetriou with a lunar sample collected 50 years ago during the United States’ Apollo 17 mission. The rock was ...

The public has been urged to register and get out to vote in the upcoming February presidential elections, as four candidates jointly issued the call. On Friday, four candidates – Nikos ...

Everything is ready for Sunday’s archbishop elections, the general commissioner for them Ioannis Charilaou said on Friday. Earlier in the day, ballot boxes were turned over those in charge ...

Cyprus’ GDP is estimated to have reached a growth rate of 5.8 per cent for 2022, according to a report released on Friday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC). However, in ...

A 31-year-old who turned himself in to police following after a car was shot at in Oroklini on December 4 resulting in a 42-year-old man and a six-year-old boy getting severely ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouis on Friday signed a memorandum of cooperation with the rector of the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) Panayiotis Zaphiris, after the latter established a collaboration protocol ...

Larnaca on Friday joined the 200 Wolt drivers striking in Nicosia and Limassol, upping the pressure against the delivery company to change its working conditions. Drivers across three of the island’...

By Gina Agapiou and Jonathan Shkurko Cypriots will celebrate Christmas and New Year without Covid-19 restrictions for the first time since the pandemic outbreak on the island. Health ministry spokesman ...