Cyprus

Every day at dawn, as Dinos Ayiomamitis’ small truck slowly navigates the pathway of a cemetery, cats quietly emerge from among the surrounding tombstones. “Here you go, Bourekka mou,” he ...

The Sovereign Base Area Police are asking the public for help in solving a 23- year-old murder that took place on June 25, 1998, at Lady’s Mile. The fatal stabbing of ...

A further five cases of the Delta variant have been detected in Cyprus from samples taken between March 9 and June 11, the health ministry announced on Thursday. The lab work, carried ...

Saying the relevant bodies are “deaf” to their requests for an improvement in mental health care, a group of state doctors employed at the Athalassa mental health hospital said on ...

One more sexual harassment case has been filed in court, police said on Thursday, as the force continued its investigation into a flurry of complaints filed recently. Police spokesperson Eleni ...

A 28-year-old and a 41-year-old were arrested for driving under the influence of drugs on Wednesday night, Paphos police said. The two men were released pending test results. A small ...

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the head of Peace Operations for the UN will pay a four-day visit to Cyprus, starting on Thursday. During Wednesday’s international press briefing at UN Headquarters in ...

In a move to promote cultural and rural tourism, the deputy ministry of tourism on Thursday announced 570 free traditional handicraft and enogastronomy workshops to take place over the weekends until ...

The study for the preparation of an integrated development plan of Tylliria has started and is expected to be completed in ten months, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. According ...

A 32-year-old man was arrested early on Thursday after Limassol drug squad found about a kilo of cannabis in his car. Police had put the man under surveillance following a ...

An entrance fee that is being charged to gain access to the popular waterfalls at Kritou Terra is much needed for the upkeep of the area and critics should understand ...

Police said Wednesday they have arrested a 46-year-old man on suspicion of possession of child pornography. The suspect was arrested following a tip off that he had allegedly purchased child ...

There were no deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, but infections continued to climb on Wednesday with the health ministry announcing 167 new cases after 33,413 tests, a positivity rate of 0.50 ...

Conservationists censured the government on Wednesday over its failure to protect the environment or even ensure its own provisions in impact studies were adhered to when it comes to largescale ...

Police have renewed calls to the public to be aware of scammers trying to gain access to their computers by pretending to be Microsoft employees offering to remove a virus. ...

With daily cases almost doubling between Monday and Tuesday from 67 to 122, experts have warned that Cyprus might be experiencing yet another wave, this time of the Delta variant, and repeated ...

The audit service on Wednesday vehemently rejected suggestions by an inquiry that it had not done its job properly in 2016 as regards the controversial citizenship-by-investment programme, accusing the panel of ...

The health ministry announced a total of 63 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The European Innovation Scoreboard made public earlier this week testifies to the progress Cyprus has made in innovation, the Republic’s chief scientist Dr Nicolas Mastroyiannopoulos said on Wednesday after ...

About one in three or 33.4 per cent of working Cypriots received support from special schemes to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, the second highest rate in the EU 27 and nearly ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will travel to Brussels for a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday, it was announced on Wednesday. According to a written statement issued ...

The House plenary will on Thursday ratify the composition of the 16 regular and one ad hoc parliamentary committee, as well as a newly established ethics committee for MPs, the Cyprus ...

Hellenic Bank announced on Wednesday at their Annual General Meeting for 2020 that the appointment of the new CEO Oliver Gatzke is awaiting the approval of both the European Central Bank ...

A photo of three cruise ships off Limassol that appear to be hovering in the air generated keen interest on social media on Wednesday, with both the person who took ...