Cyprus

It may have won audiences in Europe, but Cyprus‘s entry for the Eurovision song contest has raised hackles at home, scandalising the faithful for paying homage to the devil. “...

The government does support the auditor-general but he ought to respect the work of other institutions, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday. He was commenting on a statement by the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades accused Diko on Wednesday of proposing nothing and rejecting everything, as he took a shot at the party over an online ad that backfired spectacularly, forcing them ...

A vessel with around 100 migrants was spotted off Cape Greco on Wednesday afternoon. The boat was spotted at around 2 pm around 14 nautical miles off Cape Greco. A vessel of the ...

The health ministry announced a total of 80 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The health ministry’s public health service recalled on Friday a brand of cooking chocolate because of a failure to list a potential allergen among ingredients. The chocolate was found ...

The Limassol bishopric said Wednesday it knew nothing of the illegal activities of a man it had tried to help secure a Cypriot passport through the citizenship by investment programme. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades and agriculture minister Costas Kadis visited recycling unit Cyprus Environmental Industries on Wednesday in light of the government’s recently announced recovery and resilience plan. The scheme ...

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision for a 45-day prison sentence of a man who failed to return of his two children back to their mother and for turning ...

Some examples of funding €40 million will go to SMEs and councils and communities €20.5 million for energy efficiency for homes and renewables €78.4 million for improvement business competitiveness €96 million for improvement of ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Wednesday called for political parties to support necessary reforms so that Cyprus can fully utilise the €1.2 billion from the national recovery and resilience plan. Petrides ...

A Molotov cocktail that was thrown at Polemidia police station late on Tuesday night has been condemned by police chief Stelios Papatheodorou. He said that such actions constitute an attack ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis visited the new police station at Anexartisias street in Limassol on Wednesday, saying that the goal is to help locals feel safer. She was accompanied by ...

The first cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19 have been detected in Cyprus, the health ministry announced on Wednesday. The variant was detected in four of the samples taken ...

Cyprus’ Eurovision song, El Diablo, which got through to the final round on Tuesday evening, has been endorsed by none other than Lucifer himself who gave the song 12 points. Netflix, ...

Former Kitium bishop Chrysostomos appeared before the Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court on Wednesday to examine whether his mental state hinders him from following legal proceedings against him relating to rape charges. ...

Hospitals have seen a significant improvement in the past few days, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Wednesday. There are currently 150 coronavirus patients in hospitals, of whom 33 ...

The British colonialists blamed roaming, chomping goats for the treeless state of the island and penned them in. How wrong they were By Martin Hellicar I looked up the etymology ...

The fire service notified the public on Wednesday that it will be performing an agroforestry exercise next week. The exercise, called “Pyrsos (Torch) 2021” will take place on Monday, May 24, between 10...

The vaccination portal reopened on Wednesday morning for those aged between 61 and 65, with more openings coming later in the week. The portal reopenings are part of the health ministry’s ...

A 10-year-old boy has been injured by a firecracker in Larnaca, police said on Wednesday. Police said the incident took place a little after 8pm on Tuesday night, and the ...

Defence minister Charalambos Petrides will meet his Greek and Egyptian counterparts in Nicosia on Wednesday afternoon. Petrides will meet Nikolaos Panayiotopoulos and General Mohamed Zaki to discuss the latest developments ...

Police have booked 15 people for breaching coronavirus measures in the past 24 hours, specifically for not using masks. From Tuesday morning to Wednesday morning, police said they performed 4,601 checks, 1,143 of which ...

Cyprus minister of energy, commerce and industry Natasa Pilides presented a new scheme on Tuesday, May 18, to promote new business activity on the island. The scheme includes a budget of €30 ...