Cyprus

The British Bases are continuing investigations as to whether a large-scale fire in the Akrotiri area, a protected wetland, was an arson attack they said on Friday. The fire broke ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday announced that the state budget for 2023 has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers, noting that it is the most growth-oriented and green budget ...

Cyprus will seek judgement from international bodies over Turkish provocations, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Friday, a day after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ankara would station more ...

Prison guard members of the Isotita union held protests over their pay grades for the 12th consecutive day on Friday, upping pressure on the government as they gathered outside the ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou has drafted a proposal to end the practice of making gymnasium pupils repeat a year based on performance assessment. According to Philenews the proposal has already ...

October arrives with a packed agenda. Annual festivals, pop-up experiences, film screenings, new art exhibitions and shows fill the month’s calendar and culture buffs have lots to look forward ...

A fire on Friday at a scrapyard in Ayia Varvara, Paphos has been extinguished, the fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said, after it damaged a building and forty scrap cars. ...

Larnaca is modernising and overcoming many chronic problems that it has faced, the city’s mayor Andreas Vyras said on Friday. Despite the problems due to the economic crisis and ...

In today’s episode, we hear that the UN Special Representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart has warned that the scenario of a mutually agreed solution to the Cyprus problem is ...

The twelfth edition of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus is preparing to welcome the cinephile public with a rich and varied programme of screenings from October 8 to 14. Alongside ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has asked for the help of Unficyp in dealing with increased migration flows to the government-controlled areas through the UN-controlled buffer zone. Nouris, who is on ...

Turkey is preparing to take the Cyprus issue to the UN General Assembly in order to remove the obstacles to recognition of the breakaway state in the north, Turkish newspaper ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

There were two Covid deaths recorded during the past week, the health ministry announced on Friday. The deaths concerned a man aged 63 who died on September 21 and another man aged 79 ...

A 24-year-old man has been arrested in Paphos on suspicion of carrying out two burglaries, police said on Friday. The burglaries were carried out on a restaurant and a hotel. ...

Local problems fall into insignificance in the face of the climate crisis and there only a narrow window to act, Noam Chomsky said in a recorded interview presented at the ...

The government’s withdrawal from talks with airport operators Hermes is but a smokescreen intended to put the kibosh on the affair and kick the can down the road, a ...

The House on Thursday passed a bill extending to the end of February 2023 the period for reduced consumption tax on fuel, in a move that will ease some of the ...

As of November 1, doctors who have a private practice within hospitals contracted with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) but who themselves are not registered with the national health system will ...

September is undoubtedly the month when beer, of all kinds, gains momentum on the island with beer festivals taking place around the island. This weekend it is the turn of ...

Three of the presidential candidates said the trust of the Turkish Cypriots needs to be won back, and that more should have been done to invest in their community. Speaking ...

The scenario of a mutually agreed solution to the Cyprus problem is fading and would not be available much longer UN Special Representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart said on Thursday. ...

Cyprus will request specific exemptions from the measures concerning the mandatory reduction of energy demand during peak hours, as well as the imposition of a cap on the additional profits ...

Two people were arrested in the north on Thursday suspected of attacking police during protests over a new €100m-plus ‘government’ complex being built. According to police in the north, they ...