Cyprus News

Among the 160,746 pensioners in Cyprus as of 2020, there are wide variations in the amount people receive, some getting up to €2,487 while others were granted €710. With a total cost to the ...

A concert to mark the Queen’s jubilee and the friendship between Britain and Cyprus will be organised by the British bases at Curium on June 2, it was announced on ...

The health ministry announced that it will increase efforts to provide Turkish Cypriots with EUDCC Covid-19 certificates, but reiterated that they must first fill out an application. It said that ...

Werner Hoyer, the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), will meet with members of the Cypriot Government on Monday in Nicosia. According to a statement issued by the EIB, ...

Jordan has been upgraded from the red to green Covid-19 travel category, while the overall country categorisation programme will be scrapped on April 18. An announcement last week detailed stated that ...

Police arrested a 46-year-old man in Paphos on Sunday for illegal possession of drugs and property after he was seen throwing something suspicious out of his car. Members of the ...

In today’s episode, as of Monday a raft of relaxations from Covid-19 restrictions come into force following a Cabinet decision last Thursday. Elsewhere, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Sunday ...

In the 24 hours leading to 6am on Monday, police fined 12 individuals for Covid decree violations, after 2,165 inspections. In Nicosia, no fines were issued after 518 checks. In Limassol two fines were ...

Police arrested three men in Paphos on Sunday after court warrants were issued, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a crime, theft and illegal entry. According to the police, the ...

Easing of coronavirus restrictions takes effect on Monday morning, including abolition of the mandatory requirement for outdoor face mask use, while SafePasses are no longer needed for the workplace, with ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos estimates that Cyprus will see 50 per cent more passenger traffic this year compared with 2021. “I want to send the message that although we expect to lose ...

Authorities were alerted after a dead baby was found in the capital Nicosia’s old town on Sunday evening. According to CyBC, the baby was discovered inside a bag in ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos turned 81 on Sunday saying that his health was stable “with the help of God, and his doctors”. During the day the archbishop, who has been diagnosed with cancer ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 1,459 had tested positive from 57,728 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.53 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

April is one of the best times to escape and go hiking and nowhere more so than the Akamas Some of us travel to explore the sites, while others do ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will attend an event on Wednesday the Ledra Palace, which will also be attended by Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar under the aegis of Colin Stewart, Special ...

Just in time for the start of the summer season, Cyprus is getting a new flying ambassador, a plane that was christened ‘Larnaca’ at a special ceremony on Sunday. Larnaca, ...

Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides on Sunday suggested that Nicosia was keen on joining Nato in light of the current status quo on the island, if it wasn’t for Turkey. ...

As presidential elections got underway in France on Sunday, the French Embassy in Nicosia was operating a polling station for individuals who are registered to vote. A French Embassy spokesperson ...

Cyprus’s defence minister, Charalambos Petridis said that the island’s defence expenditure in 2021 was at its highest level since 2004. Speaking at the Pancyprian Artillery Reserve Association’s annual gala, ...

American University of Beirut campus a massive boost Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos is bursting with pride that a campus of the prestigious American University of Beirut is coming to the ...

A four-year-old girl was attacked by a dog late on Saturday at a park in Xylotymbou, in the Famagusta district. According to the police, the child’s father reported to ...

Cyprus’s Energy Minister, Natasa Pilidou, said that drilling of the first well in the Eni-Total consortium will get underway in the coming weeks. Pilides, in an interview to Greek-language ...

US pressure on Cyprus to offer the biggest confidence building measure of them all – energy cooperation with Turkey A settlement of the Cyprus issue might no longer be a prerequisite ...