Cyprus

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 ...

Failure to act on climate change will impact public health, ecosystems, agriculture, tourism and water resources in an unprecedented way, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday, warning that the supply ...

Police arrested four people after a Nicosia resident reported their wallet, which contained €200, was stolen while at a hospitality venue. As part of the investigations into the case, police arrested ...

In today’s episode, President Nicos Anastasiades said he is determined to solve all problems in the island’s public hospitals. Elsewhere, Covid-19 booster shots are now available to the ...

Nicosia traffic police booked two drivers for speeding in the early morning hours on Wednesday. The first man was caught driving at 105kph instead of abiding to the maximum speed ...

Three women, aged 44, 22 and 20, were arrested on suspicion of car arson in the village of Stavrokonou, police said on Wednesday. Investigations started late on Friday when a fire was set ...

Paphos police on Wednesday said they arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with a burglary of an electronic store in Polis Chrysochous. According to police, the burglary took place last ...

One business and 14 individuals were booked for failing to abide by coronavirus measures, with the main violation being failure to wear a facemask, police said on Wednesday. According to a ...

Over the past few years, there have been concerted efforts to grow Cyprus’ technology sector, with Deputy Minister Kyriacos Kokkinos recently announcing that additional incentives will soon come into force. ...

Cypriot consumers will be paying the domestic rate of VAT when purchasing goods online following the implementation of six pieces of legislation by the House Finance Committee. This means that ...

By Martin Clark Cyprus has quite a bit of forest, 19 per cent as a percentage of land cover. In these days of climate change and drier and hotter conditions, the ...

Great efforts are being undertaken to tackle illegal migration, MPs heard during Parliament’s ad hoc committee on demographics and migration on Tuesday while concerns were also expressed over “the ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday briefed the ambassadors of EU member states accredited to Nicosia on Turkish provocations in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and the backtracking of the ...

Greece will continue to support Cyprus in its efforts to find a solution to the Cyprus problem and counter any attempt made by Turkey to create faits accomplis, as we ...

No new deaths from Covid-19 were announced on Tuesday but 166 new positive cases were recorded, while 60 coronavirus patients are receiving treatment in hospital. Tuesday’s positives were identified from a ...

This year’s Oxi Day parades are set to go ahead following an exemption and approval by the health ministry, which set out guidelines for the celebrations – chiefly that a ...

The House labour committee asked the government on Tuesday to prepare legislation to regulate remote working in a bid to secure workers’ rights, which appear to have been affected during ...

The community council of Kathikas, located in the Paphos district, and Terra Cypria, The Cyprus Conservation Foundation, have signed a cooperation agreement for the use of the Regional Multipurpose Cultural ...

The Olympic Committee said on Tuesday it will correct irregularities and heed the observations of the audit service, which found overspending and conflict of interest, among others, in a probe ...

Limassol police were investigating two separate stabbing incidents on Tuesday with one person being treated in hospital in serious condition. Police said the first incident took place in a house ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci is among 42 people barred from entering Turkey, media in the north reported on Tuesday as the backlash continued after journalist Ali Kishmir was refused ...