Cyprus

One of the barbed-wire metal gates installed in Peristerona has been destroyed as the local authorities remain puzzled as to what exactly happened. A police source from the larger and ...

Cypriots can anticipate a working life of 37.9 years, the eighth longest in the EU27 and above the EU27 average of 36 years, according to figures published by Eurostat on Wednesday. These ...

The Turkish Cypriot side recorded 2,251 new Covid cases and one death in the past week. The ‘health ministry’ said that from June 29 to July 5, some 18,869 tests were performed. The total ...

Ordinary citizens may soon be able to petition the government and parliament under two bills currently under discussion in the House legal affairs committee. Both bills, one submitted by the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades promised potato farmers on Wednesday that the government would support them and they should be “absolutely sure of that”. The president was in Xylofagou to open a ...

The cabinet has approved €16 million to subsidise the cost of nursery schools for children up to four years old. It will subsidise the cost to families and feeding the children. ...

The government is pressing ahead with its policies to discourage the use of private vehicles as it instead looks to promote public transport – with promises of trams and smart traffic ...

Limassol district court on Wednesday handed down jail terms to six people for illegal employment and residence in the Republic and imposed fines on two others. A man aged 64 was ...

The remains of four men killed by Eoka B during the July 1974 coup which overthrew the government of then president Archbishop Makarios are being exhumed from a group grave at ...

Prison director Anna Aristotelous sent a message that “people can change” during the official closing ceremony of the facility’s schools on Wednesday. Ten inmates were awarded their diplomas with ...

Trade unions Sek and Peo on Wednesday accused the government of backing down after a broad meeting the previous day at the presidential palace failed to approve the introduction of ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Wednesday said that the government’s long-term economic strategy Vision 2035 is based on tangible actions and is designed to tackle the challenges that Cyprus will ...

Akel MP Irene Charalambides was on Wednesday re-elected vice president of the parliamentary assembly of the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe until 2025 with the most preference votes. The ...

A 25-year-old man was sentenced to 3.5 years in jail on Wednesday for attempting to rape a woman while he was drunk in Paphos. The attempted abuse took place as the ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved an additional €350,000 to subsidise the installation or replacement of solar water heaters amid a surge in demand for cheaper, green energy. The initial incentives scheme for €600,000 ...

A 73-year-old woman died on Wednesday, about a month after she was seriously burned in a house arson in the village of Pyrgos in Limassol, police said. Demetra Charalambous was ...

A 42-year-old man has been jailed for two years after the Paphos district court found him guilty of causing a fatal hit-and-run which took place in 2017. The court case took ...

Undersecretary to the President Petros Demetriou, who underwent heart surgery on Tuesday, is in stable condition and no longer on a ventilator, CyBC reported on Wednesday. Government Spokesman Marios Pelekanos ...

With cases of child sexual abuse on the rise, the cabinet on Wednesday morning approved the expansion of the Children’s House, where affected youngsters are supported. “It was considered ...

Nikos Christodoulides still has a considerable lead ahead of the February 2023 presidential election, according to a poll released by Alpha TV on Wednesday, which also showed a tight race between ...

Two people were remanded in police custody on Wednesday while a third is being looked for by the police after $4,300 in counterfeit notes was transferred to the Bank of Cyprus ...

A 40-year-old man was remanded in custody for three days on Wednesday after being linked to three fires which broke out on Tuesday in Limassol. Two of the fires were ...

The government on Wednesday announced the reimposition of a wide-ranging indoor mask mandate for those aged 12 and above which will be in force from Friday. It reiterated that the fine ...

A 35-year-old man has been hospitalised after he was assaulted on Tuesday night at the apartment of his former partner in Livadia, police said on Wednesday. His condition is described ...