Cyprus

After the initial hiccups, the major problems faced by district organisations in their first months since they took over in the summer last year, have boiled down to sewerage, waste ...

To tackle traffic congestion and improve urban development, the municipalities of Limassol, Amathus, and Polemidia have teamed up on a collaborative spatial planning initiative, aimed at enhancing the city’s ...

Tuesday’s weather will be mainly clear, with increased clouds present during parts of the day. Temperatures will rise to around 20 degrees Celsius inland and on the coasts, and 10 degrees ...

Cypriot natural gas will be extracted from under the sea for the first time in 2027, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Monday. Speaking to Politis radio, he said he expects ...

The construction of a new crematorium in Paphos may not be complete until next year, according to reports on Monday. News website Reporter wrote that while the initial plan was ...

Paphos district court issued three-day remand orders against two people, aged 37 and 34, to facilitate investigations into a burglary. Police said the suspects were found in possession of property stolen from ...

A third person was arrested after 9pm on Monday in Larnaca to facilitate investigations into the January 9 attempted murder of a 30-year-old in Kornos. The man, aged 24, is a foreigner ...

January 2025 is the second worst regarding rainfall for the month, the Meteorological Department said on Monday. On Monday morning, rainfall for the month had just touched 17 per cent. The dryest ...

Efforts are underway to determine the source of a sewerage spill in Vati, Limassol, near the biological sewage treatment plant, with the Water Development Department assuring the leak was not ...

A doctor at a state hospital accused of trying to skim a patient’s relatives out of money has been sacked, booted out of the state health services organisation (Okypy) ...

There is no proper record of bullying incidents from previous years, as things were “less formal” and cases were “concealed” for fear of giving schools a bad name, Education Minister ...

Balancing wages and the cost of life was the focus of a meeting on Monday that gathered trade unions from across Cyprus, with trade unionists calling for a meeting with ...

Lawmakers on Monday began discussing two government bills aimed at boosting the stock of residential units and providing affordable housing, but not all were convinced this was enough to drive ...

Children born in Cyprus to one Cypriot parent and the other from a third country are being denied Cypriot citizenship and complaints have spurred the House human rights committee to ...

The environment and animal welfare commissioner has expressed her concern over the recent increase in animal abuse cases in Cyprus. “There was an unfortunate increase of serious animal abuse incidents, ...

Large sums of money and luxury cars have been confiscated, while €24 million worth of cryptocurrencies have been frozen, in the framework of a Europol and Eurojust joint operation to clamp ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday said his ‘government’ is to begin “serious work” to allow Turkish Cypriots abroad to vote in the north’s elections. Speaking during ...

Criteria set in 2023 for hospitals in the national health system (Gesy) have produced their first results, with a 92 per cent improvement of the quality of services provided, health insurance organisation (...

The north’s ‘finance minister’ Ozdemir Berova on Monday defended his ‘ministry’s’ use of stolen vehicles for official purposes. Speaking in ‘parliament’, he said that while 61 vehicles imported from ...

A man was injured after being attacked with a sharp object, possibly a knife, in the Ledra area of old Nicosia on Monday morning. Police are looking for the suspect. ...

Are you a Blunt-Nosed Viper or a Cyprus Whip-snake? Perhaps you’re one of the island’s rarer species: the Coin Snake, Dwarf Snake, or Worm Snake (an elusive ophidian ...

All That’s Left of You, a Palestinian film partly shot in Cyprus, premiered at the renowned independent film festival Sundance in Utah last Saturday. Director Cherien Dabis was pre-producing ...

Monday’s court hearing regarding the three people facing criminal charges over a report by news company Al Jazeera into the alleged illegal naturalisations of people as citizens of the ...

Cypriot natural gas will be extracted from under the sea for the first time in 2027, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Monday. Speaking to Politis radio, he said he expects ...