Cyprus

An open letter outlining a range of measures for the government to implement, sent on Wednesday by the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve), has sparked a fierce reaction ...

Deputy Minister for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos announced on Friday the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IDEA Innovation Centre president Charis Pouangare. The MoU ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Friday unveiled a proposed overhaul in the management of Turkish Cypriot properties he said aimed to weed out distortions, better serve refugees and make the ...

Over six thousand imitation goods were identified and seized by the police during island-wide inspections between May 9 and 13. The inspections were part of a European campaign to control the illegal ...

Police have arrested a 56-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman after 2.5 kilograms of cocaine were discovered in a briefcase that was hidden inside a cardboard box, Cyprus News Agency (CNA) ...

A treasury report has revealed that presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis did not receive two salaries as suggested by rival candidate Achilleas Demetriades. Citing sources, Demetriades had questioned whether Mavroyiannis had ...

Caesarean sections in Cyprus reached 61 per cent of total births in 2020, while the acceptable limit set by the World Health Organisation is up to 15 per cent, the head of the ...

A cruise ship carrying around 1,000 passengers from Israel docked at Larnaca port on Friday after a two-year hiatus of the service due to the Covid-19 restrictions. The Crown Iris cruise ...

The village of Lefkara was named among the ‘Best Tourism Villages’ by the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) during a ceremony that took place on Friday in the presence of the ...

China and Cyprus have agreed to closer ties in the fields of higher education and science, as the government seeks to promote the island as an international educational and scientific ...

A 43-year old woman is in a serious condition after being bitten by a viper on Friday. Cybc reported that the woman was receiving treatment at Limassol General Hospital’s ...

The island’s state health services organisation (Okypy) announced that it would begin charging Gesy beneficiaries for excessive visits to family GPs and paediatricians, In its statement, Okypy said the ...

The three suspects accused of the premediated murder of Leontios Poyiadjis, 60, will remain into custody until the hearing of the case before the Paphos criminal court on July 23. Paphos district ...

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for causing a fire near a state forest in Limassol on July 3, 2021. According to the Limassol criminal court’...

Limassol Mayor Nicos Nicolaides on Friday inspected works underway in the town, noting that the emphasis was no longer on the coastal front or the centre, but on balanced development ...

A dead juvenile Mediterranean monk seal was found in Limassol’s Moni area and a necropsy will be carried out by the veterinary services to determine, if possible, the cause ...

Presidential candidate Nikos Christodoulides has been pressed on his Disy membership and the nine years he served in government, with questions raised as to how credible his calls for change ...

Refugees from Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora carried out beach clean ups across the island to express gratitude to Cyprus which has sheltered over 16,500 refugees from the war-torn country. Larnaca ...

Nicosia municipality on Friday confirmed that the municipal swimming pool will remain closed this season for revamp works. In a statement, it said it had managed to claim the required ...

Two suspects have been identified and questioned by the police over the case of animal torture at the Dali secondary school which shocked the island. A mother cat and her ...

The charity concert to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee has been relocated to within the defence sector of the British bases following “the hostile response of a very ...

The inspector general of the national guard is the investigating officer who will probe the conditions under which the fatal accident which led to the death of a 27-year-old non-commissioned ...

Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides on Friday discussed the Cyprus problem, Cyprus-UK bilateral relations and regional and international challenges with British MPs, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kasoulides said in ...

The government will continue supporting households and especially the vulnerable amid the rising inflation, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides had told CNA, warning that tackling inflation is difficult due to its ...