Cyprus

Fireworks are a “serious threat for the natural environment” the forestry department said on Tuesday, following reports concerning their illegal use at events such as weddings and birthdays. The department ...

Paphos police are looking for two men, 33 and 27, on suspicion of breaking in and stealing 17,000 worth of items from an Emba home. The burglary was reported to the police by ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Monday unveiled the second supplementary state budget for 2021, a stimulus package aimed at continuing support to businesses struck by the coronavirus-related measures – although the single ...

A teenager was arrested after he was found riding a stolen motorcycle in Limassol, police said on Tuesday. Traffic police stopped the 17-year-old for a check around 3.25pm on Monday. ...

The met service expanded the yellow weather warning for high temperatures until 5pm on Tuesday. Temperatures were expected to reach 41C inland, and around 32C in the mountainous areas. The ...

By Pavlos Loizou, Managing Director, WiRE FS It is a paradox that currently only a handful of people in Cyprus are still concerned with the matter of NPLs. Maybe they ...

The Paphos community is rallying around those families that were affected by the fire that raged in Tala on Saturday that saw them lose all of their belongings. Three houses ...

Cyprus’ tourism industry has much more to offer than just the sun and the sea, deputy minister Savvas Perdios said at an event to rebrand the island’s tourism profile. “...

President Nicos Anastasiades said a return to strict measures is not currently on the cards but gave an unambiguous message to get vaccinated. The president said any incentives for the ...

New positive cases of the coronavirus spiralled to 314 on Monday, reflecting a positivity rate of 0.84 per cent. No deaths were announced, but 53 people were in hospital with the virus, of ...

Hoteliers on Monday said they were thinking of hiring only vaccinated staff citing reluctance by some of their employees to take the jab. Head of hoteliers’ association Pasyxe, Haris Loizides, ...

Education minister Prodromos Prodromou on Monday said that the Pancyprian examination results were not as bad as had been expected, with results for core subjects for the 7,155 candidates just grazing ...

The new House finance committee held its first session on Monday after May’s parliamentary elections, where among others it discussed setting a deadline for passing yet another extension to ...

Two witnesses for the defence team of former Kiti bishop Chrysostomos who has been accused of rape argued on Monday that he is suffering from dementia and is unfit to ...

The health ministry’s decision to expand vaccinations to minors aged 16 to 17 on Monday was described as a ‘positive development’ by experts but met with hugely varying reactions from parents. ...

The family of a teenage girl of African origin said on Monday they would file a written complaint to the education ministry over what they have said was discrimination, after ...

The health ministry announced a total of 61 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Tuesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

British warship HMS Queen Elizabeth will dock at Limassol port on June 30, when a range of activities is planned “to showcase and develop the strong and dynamic UK-Cyprus defence partnership”, ...

The city walls of old Famagusta and the ancient site of Salamis are ‘pearls of the Mediterranean’ which the bicommunal cultural heritage committee is determined to preserve, the group said ...

Beautiful, powerful, underwater women are the focus of an Instagram account celebrating the female diving community of Cyprus. ALIX NORMAN finds out just what it takes to be a true ...

The 25th annual motorcycle procession to honour the memory of Tasos Isaak and Solomos Solomou, who were killed by Turkish forces in the Dherynia buffer zone in August 1996, will pass ...

The current increase in coronavirus cases is probably due to the Delta variant, a member of the health ministry’s advisory team said on Monday while calling on the public ...

Nine out of ten forest fires are caused by human factors, director of the Forestry Department Petros Petrou said on Monday. He said that 2000 to 2020 a total of 1,068 fires were ...

Owning a home in Cyprus is an “impossible dream,” trade union Peo said on Monday, calling for the creation of social housing programmes. Construction costs have recently shot up by 20 ...