Cyprus

The state honoured the athletes that took part in the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in a ceremony late on Wednesday. The event took place at the Presidential Palace in ...

Police arrested a 45-year-old man after his wife reported he had tried to suffocate her with a pillow two months ago. The man was arrested and was remanded for eight ...

In today’s episode, we discuss the temporary suspension of government support to the farmers hit by the massive increase in the price of animal feed. Elsewhere, the Turkish Cypriot ...

Traffic on the Paphos-Limassol motorway is back to normal, police said after heavy congestion near Ayios Syla following a multi-vehicle collision early in the morning. Officers were at the scene ...

Five businesses and 18 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus measures in the last 24 hours, police said early on Thursday. The fines came after 3,195 nationwide checks carried out between 6am on ...

Paphos police on Thursday were investigating after burglars stole €5,000 from a home in Peyia. The incident was reported to the police by the 58-year-old owner of the house, who said ...

Venus Minerals and Hellenic Copper Mines have agreed on a partnership for the creation of a copper mine in Apliki, a village in the Nicosia district. In an announcement released ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos stressed that adequate air connectivity for all, especially for which air travel is particularly crucial, must be secured. Karousos spoke at a high-level conference on the ...

Cash collections of the Cyprus Asset Management Company (KEDIPES) reached €95.2 million in the second quarter of 2021 with total cumulative cash collections since KEDIPES establishment in September 2018 exceeding €1 billion. Assets under ...

Parliament will consider banning fireworks altogether if their uncontrollable use does not decrease, MPs said on Wednesday. Widespread, illegal use of fireworks is not only a serious fire hazard, but ...

There were no deaths from Covid in the past 24 hours, as 142 new infections were detected after 46,145 tests, a positivity rate of 0.31 per cent, the health ministry said on Wednesday. Sixty-three ...

The English School’s pupils will be the ones paying the price if the quarrelling staff union (ESSA) and board cannot reach a conclusion, the House education committee said on ...

People who want to receive their first dose of a Covid vaccine or a booster shot can now also arrange an appointment through the vaccination portal, the health ministry said ...

The Turkish Cypriot side on Wednesday began a new phase in the opening up of the fenced-off town of Varosha , clearing part of the area they have demilitarised for resettlement ...

The House education committee on Wednesday questioned whether vaccinated and unvaccinated university students have equal access to education as the University of Cyprus and Tepak reported rising vaccination rates. In ...

Police have arrested a 27-year-old Pakistani man in connection with a suspected plot to assassinate Israeli nationals living in Cyprus. The suspect, who worked as a delivery man in Paphos, ...

Some staff at the social welfare office in Lakatamia in Nicosia on Wednesday walked out after an incident involving a group of people who began shouting after growing impatient of ...

A total of 22 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Thursday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

The coalition ‘government’ in the north has offered its resignation to Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar after it lost its majority in ‘parliament’, its ‘prime minister’ said on Wednesday as ...

A monument to the humble potato erected in Xylofagou went viral on Wednesday after photographs from puzzled passers-by circulated Cypriot social media. Thought by many to be a gag or ...

The sale of a large Finnish island to a Russian oligarch has raised concerns on the now disbanded Cypriot citizenship-by-investment scheme. A report published on Wednesday by Euractiv, a pan-European ...

Staff from the Akrotiri Environmental and Education Centre and members of the cyprus Game and Fauna Service, this week released four protected bird species back into the wild after they ...

The government said Wednesday it intends to temporarily support farmers stricken by the massive spike in the price of animal feed, which along with other factors is expected to lead ...

In the 86-year-old man who built the tourist town’s first hotel after being entranced by the spot as a child, THEO PANAYIDES meets a man with a vision that ...