Cyprus

RULING Disy is tipped to win the May 30 parliamentary election with Akel in second place and Diko in third, according to the latest survey, which was published on Wednesday evening. ...

The European Parliament expressed serious concern that in recent years, despite being a candidate country, Turkey’s government has pursued a continuous and growing distancing from EU values and standards, ...

No new deaths from Covid were announced on Wednesday, as 135 new infections were detected after 44,312 tests, a positivity rate of 0.30 per cent. The ministry said 148 people were being treated in ...

The defence ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt met in Nicosia on Wednesday to further strengthen military ties. In their joint statement following the 4th trilateral defence ministers΄ meeting, the ...

The roadworks taking place in Nicosia at the Markos Drakos roundabout close to the Paphos gate are part of a bigger project aiming to connect universities in the capital to ...

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...