Cyprus

Primary school and kindergarten teachers held a one-hour work stoppage on Monday morning, with union Poed giving authorities 15 days to work out satisfactory solutions to problems faced due to ongoing ...

Drivers can expect continued price rises at the pump, the Cyprus Consumers Association (CCA) said on Monday saying that inflation has surge. The group said that petrol 95 has notched a 0.308 ...

A 40-year-old man was found dead after a fire early on Monday morning, the fire service said. Spokesman Andreas Kettis told Cybc that at around 5.45 am, two fire trucks responded ...

Re-elected Greens leader Charalambos Theopemptou said on Monday that the party needs another two weeks to decide its course for the upcoming presidential elections. Theopemptou was on Sunday re-elected but ...

Police confirmed on Monday that the US university from which the former volunteerism commissioner claims to have graduated says it has no knowledge of his existence. Former commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki ...

A police officer on duty has identified as his own the watch worn by a suspect under arrest for cannabis possession. The watch had been taken from his home last ...

A 21-year-old man has been arrested to facilitate the investigation of two cases of burglary, at a shop and a jeweller’s last October and November in Famagusta. He is ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis is in Strasbourg to attend the informal meeting of his EU counterparts which will on Monday and Tuesday focus on the goal of climate neutrality by 2050. ...

Hospitals are not understaffed, operator Okypy said on Monday after nurses unions backed their colleagues at Nicosia general hospital’s ICU for making an urgent call for more nurses to ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested following a bust which connected him to a water tank found to contain 3.3kg of cannabis, 2.7kg of cocaine, pistols and bullets. The drug ...

Cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos could this week become only the second Cypriot ever to be nominated for an Oscar. THEO PANAYIDES talks to his old friend about loving what you do ...

More than two years after the contract signed to build a liquefied natural gas import terminal at the port of Vasilikos, the project is stuck at 4 per cent at most, ...

Two escaped detainees alleged to have committed over 40 crimes may have had help from the inside, while the police acknowledged that mistakes were made. The escapees are Alexandros Sarkisides, aged 28, ...

In today’s episode, three police officers in Paphos have been suspended pending an investigation into how two suspects escaped detention cells at the city’s police headquarters. In other ...

Police fined 16 individuals and seven business for breaking coronavirus restrictions in the 24 hours up to 6am on Monday. A police spokesman told the Cyprus News Agency that these were the ...

Paphos castle will be lit up red all week to raise public awareness over congenital heart defects, the department of antiquities said on Monday. The campaign is being led by ...

Four more people are to be taken to Limassol District Court on Monday after a fight broke out at a party in Limassol on Saturday night. Police said the individuals ...

‘It’s madness to keep building when we have more than enough’ By Bejay Browne Peyia residents are up in arms over a number of big building projects earmarked for ...

Free testing sites for Monday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Limassol (7 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” store) 9 am – 6 pm 94041843 Pano ...

The health ministry announced that four people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,214 had tested positive from 85,567 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.59 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

A remarkable woman who clung on to power for as long as she could Caterina Cornaro, one of Venice’s most influential female aristocrats, demonstrated that a queen could be ...

Charalambos Theopemptou was on Sunday re-elected as head of the Green Party – Citizens Cooperation during the party’s 12th annual congress. Alkis Papis was elected vice president, while Kyriakos Tsimilis ...

Journalist Nikolaos Katsikas, the correspondent in Egypt for the Cyprus News Agency and the Athens News Agency (APE) was found dead in his Cairo home on Saturday night, it was ...

A photo taken on Sunday in the Troodos area shows ‘two suns’, an atmospheric phenomenon commonly known as a ‘sun dog’. A sun dog, also known as a ‘mock sun’ ...