Cyprus

Urban taxi drivers on Monday announced they will proceed with an indefinite strike starting Tuesday citing discrimination against them and saying that officers are trying to prevent them from crossing ...

Authorities have issued a dust warning for Monday and urged vulnerable groups to avoid going outdoors. The department of labour inspection said the high concentrations of dust have been measured ...

A 38-year-old man was fined €6,000 after almost 70 packages of duty-free tobacco and cigarettes were found in his possession. The man was stopped for a check while driving in Limassol. During ...

A total of 23 people were fined in the last 24 hours for violating coronavirus measures, police said early on Monday. The fines resulted from 2,857 checks in the government-controlled areas, most of ...

Cypriot students excelled at the Robotex International robotics festival in Estonia earlier this month, placing high in a number of categories. “We proudly followed on social networks the young roboticists ...

Rich with a history stretching back thousands of years, Cyprus has no dearth of ghost villages, however few of them have received as much attention as Foinikas, perhaps due to ...

No deaths were announced from coronavirus on Sunday as the ministry of health recorded 206 new Covid cases. These were from a total of 40,298, representing a positivity rate of 0.51 per cent. ...

Several hundred people gathered outside the presidential palace in Nicosia on November 13 to protest coronavirus measures. Full story here.

In a message to mark 38 years since the unilateral declaration of independence in the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday said the people there live in their own ...

A village in the Paphos district has reportedly been left without water since Thursday because the village authority cannot afford to pay the electricity bill. The village of Prastio is ...

A crucial government plan to improve treatment is still being assessed, leaving families and charities to cope as best they can Worldwide, dementia is viewed as an epidemic, with over 55 ...

A total of 155,600 people had started the process of filing their tax returns for 2020 by November 11, Income Tax department spokesman Sotiris Markides told the Cyprus News Agency on Sunday He ...

By Patricia Jordan I am always being asked why some fruit and nut trees have enormous crops one year and barely any the next. This is known as ‘biennial bearing’, ...

A total of 22 rapid test points will operate on Monday for free tests for eligible groups, including children and the vaccinated. Anyone seeking a test must have proof of ID ...

The endemic Paphos dandelion (Taraxacum aphrogenes) has been selected by the agriculture ministry as its plant of the month as it continues its campaign to inform the public about the ...

Strong winds made making a fire in an inaccessible area near Psathi in Paphos difficult to tackle but it was brought under control by 6pm, fire services said on Sunday ...

The second informal tripartite meeting of the foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece and the United Arab Emirates was held on the sidelines of the Sir Bani Yas Forum in Dubai ...

Thousands of bullets found in an abandoned house in Limassol on Sunday are thought to be part of the large number stolen from a container last month. According to Limassol ...

Turkish moves in Famagusta will be outlined at the EU Foreign Affairs Council to be held in Brussels on Monday, the anniversary of the universal declaration of independence in the ...

The reality of the Cyprus problem has been repeatedly said, but in an organised way some people have taken care to place the blame on the Greek Cypriot side and ...

Nineteen individuals and one business were fined by police for breaking coronavirus measures in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Sunday. According to the police, these were the result ...

Police in Paphos are investigating after a hire car crashed with another driven by a 44-year-old woman on the motorway at 1.50 on Sunday morning. As a result of the crash, ...

A 49-year-old man, Charalambos Terlas from Limassol, died on Saturday after being critically injured in a traffic accident on October 2, police announced on Sunday. Terlas was driving on Mouson street ...

A 26-year-old man was remanded for five days by Limassol district court on Sunday after fires started at two different points in the village of Pyrgos on Saturday night. At ...