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Kyriacos Koushios was sworn in as labour minister at a ceremony at the presidential palace on Monday. In addition, Petros Demetriou former director of the office of the president was ...

The Akamas will not be bulldozed, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday following more protests over the weekend over the revised local plan for the area. Speaking to CyBC ...

All buses operating intercity routes will be checked by the department of road transport, its director said on Monday after the poor state of one such bus grabbed headlines over ...

Watering and road-lighting maintenance work will be carried out at various sections of the Larnaca-Ayia Napa highway beginning of July, the department of public works has announced on Monday. A ...

Two people who arrived at Paphos airport with the intent to travel were arrested on Sunday night in connection with a case of forgery and conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor. ...

In today’s episode, centre-right Diko’s central committee unanimously decided to support the candidacy of former foreign minister and independent, Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday. Elsewhere, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris ...

Cannabis and cocaine, weighing 29 and eight grams, were found in the possession of a 16-year-old who caught the attention of police while riding a motorcycle in Limassol on Sunday night. ...

A 50-year-old man is being held in police custody after allegedly deceiving people by posing as an actor or film producer. According to a police spokesman, the 50-year-old, who allegedly ...

The UNSG’s special representative in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, will hold separate meetings with president Nicos Anastasiades, and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar on Monday. The meetings take place ahead ...

The English School staff union (ESSA) is held a third protest on Monday morning outside the presidential palace. In a statement, the organisation said that unfortunately while the minister of ...

Limassol police have arrested a 30-year-old colleague of a 41-year-old woman who is in custody in connection with a subsidies fraud. The 41-year-old is being held in custody in connection ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is carrying out exhumations at the Paphos cemetery as part of efforts to identify the remains of people who perished in the Tylliria area ...

The history of Cyprus is being brought to life in an entertaining new podcast called, surprisingly enough, The History of Cyprus, aimed at both academics and the man on the ...

Spanish experts were on the island this week to share expertise on protecting wildlife from poison baits as part of a wider campaign to bolster the island’s embattled Griffon ...

Nicholas Karides looks at a new intricately constructed account of a Cyprus Airways crash in the 60s As if the collective Cypriot mind didn’t have enough trouble distinguishing myth ...

A small tremor measuring 2.6 on the Richter scale was felt in some parts of the island on Sunday, the geological surveys department said. It was mainly felt in the city ...

Ruling Disy said on Sunday that as former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was now officially “the willing accomplice in the effort the Diko leadership to return to government at all ...

Stavros Koniotis experiences what the first ferry from Cyprus to Greece in over 20 years has to offer. And then takes it back again One week ago the passenger ferry Daleela ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Sunday urged both sides in the Akamas debate to lower the tone, saying the truth of the new plan for the environmentally-sensitive area was somewhere ...

Centre-right Diko’s central committee has unanimously decided to support the candidacy of Nikos Christodoulides for the upcoming presidential elections. The committee met on Sunday to cast their votes following ...

The weather over the next three days will continue to be slightly unseasonal with isolated showers and lower temperatures than would be expected this time of the year. Sunday is ...

Limassol police are investigating after finding more than two kilos of methamphetamine buried in an open space in a village in the district. Police said they found 2.18kg of the ...

Cyprus would like to function as a regional hub to coordinate responses of neighbouring countries to fires, President Nicos Anastasiades has said. In an interview with Politis following the devastating ...

The health ministry said on Sunday that Cyprus was investing a social policy to address addiction to narcotics, in a message to mark World Day Against Drugs and Drug Trafficking. ...