Cyprus

For those with a sweet tooth, this upcoming festival is one to mark in the calendar! Set in the busy and charming village of Kakopetria, the fourth edition of the ...

Cyprus’ National Cyber Security Team will on Monday travel to Vienna, Austria to participate in this year’s European Cyber Security Competition. A total of 33 countries will take part in ...

Temperature will rise to around 38C inland on Saturday, the meteorological department said in its daily statement. The weather will be mostly fine over the weekend, with temperatures expected to ...

A woman sitting on the International Olympic Committee plans on taking a bicommunal group of youngsters around the island’s coast next year to promote togetherness through sport. Alix Norman ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday described Cyprus’ impressive score in the Greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) performance index as exceptionally important for both jobs and incomes, particularly during the ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Keve) this week said that Eurochambers, the association of European chambers of commerce, has requested immediate support measures for businesses against the rising ...

Association for the Protection of Borrowers (Syprodat) this week welcomed the Central Bank of Cyprus’ call for tenders for a project to digitally verify the data of bank clients. The ...

As of last month, 1,343 new electric vehicles (EV) have been registered in Cyprus, surpassing the year’s goal by 144 per cent, the transport ministry said. The switch to electric vehicles ...

Some €19 million in funding has been secured by the defence ministry via the European Union’s structural funds Thalia programme for the installation of photovoltaic systems in National Guard barracks ...

Energy Minister Natasa Pilides announced the upcoming visit of the Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson, in a statement after the conclusion of the extraordinary meeting of energy ministers in Brussels on ...

The Paphos court on Friday acquitted a 30-year-old man accused of the rape and kidnapping of a woman. Both the accused and the complainant are third country nationals. The offences ...

The forced division of an EU member state is not a Cyprus question, but a European question, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said on Friday in an ...

Larnaca police were investigating on Friday after an animal breeder reported that 74 of his animals were killed by three stray dogs in Tersefanou. The owner of the farm told police ...

Cypriot professor Andreas Kapardis presented two papers on corruption during the 39th Cambridge international symposium on economic crime. The emeritus professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of ...

The amount of money needed for work at Dikomo landfill, where the remains of approximately 70 Greek Cypriots are believed to be buried, is huge, close to €10 million, but the work ...

The health services are preparing to start offering the fourth coronavirus vaccine dose, deputy director of nursing services Evagoras Tambouris said on Friday as the Pfizer vaccine has already arrived ...

The legendary birthplace of the goddess of love and beauty is the setting for the sixteenth episode of “Weekend Escapes.” Located in the Paphos region, Petra tou Romiou is one ...

Kition Planetarium and Observatory is calling on people to participate in their unique planetarium programmes and observe the planets this September. Planet Jupiter, the brightest object on the sky after ...

Gear Education, a new boutique firm specialising in education technology services, earlier this month became Cyprus’ first and only Google for Education partner. The company works closely with schools to ...

A man received a 12-year concurrent prison sentence on Friday after he was found guilty of six charges related to sexual abuse of a minor. Limassol criminal court also issued ...

Acting on this year’s theme of End Racism, Build Peace, the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research, the Home for Cooperation, The Home Café and Peace Players Cyprus join ...

A pensioner was scammed out of nearly €18,000 by a person pretending to be a bank employee, Limassol police said on Friday. The woman told police she received a phone call ...

A 92-year-old woman has died from coronavirus over the past week, while 1,869 new infections were detected, the health ministry has announced on Friday. The new death was recorded on Monday, ...

Police said on Friday they arrested a 34-year-old man who broke into a 48-year-old woman’s flat claiming he was chased by five people. According to Paphos CID chief and ...