Cyprus

The EU’s Director-General for Structural Reform Support Mario Nava on Tuesday met the three members of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) at its anthropological laboratory. Nava, who was ...

Divers on Monday collected more 103 kilos of rubbish from the seabed in the Psarolimano area of Larnaca, including glass and plastic bottles, cans and two tyres. The clean-up was organised ...

The Cyprus Institute (CyI) will hold its second International Conference on Climate Change in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East on October 13 and 14 just ahead of the next global climate ...

Lakatamia municipality announced on Tuesday another playground that includes toys for children with disabilities has been completed and is ready for use. The playground is located at the Ayios Georgios ...

New study shows how vultures reduce carbon footprint and promote tourism Helping the island’s Griffon vulture population to recover not only cleans up nature from dead carrion and saves ...

One in ten Cypriots say they were misled into buying counterfeits, according to an EU-wide survey released as part of an awareness campaign by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (...

The health ministry announced a total of 70 rapid Covid testing sites will operate around the island on Wednesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

US ambassador Judith Garber on Tuesday joined Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis, department of fisheries officials and environment commissioner Klelia Vassiliou to witness the release of Iole, a 73kg Green turtle, ...

A well-known Paphos doctor has died from Covid-19, it emerged on Tuesday. Michalis Markou was being treated at the Nicosia general hospital ICU in critical condition. Despite doctors’ efforts, Markou ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis called on her EU counterparts on Tuesday to expedite and intensify the accession evaluation process for Schengen candidate countries, such as Cyprus, while intensifying police cooperation ...

Cyprus will invest €283m from an EU-backed recovery and resilience fund in a concerted drive to transition into the digital era aiming at stronger economy and prosperity, President Nicos Anastasiades ...

Medical professionals are being dropped from the general health system (Gesy) for trying to cheat the system through fictitious claims, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) revealed on Tuesday. Reports place ...

Those who exploited the deficiencies of the citizenship by investment programme should not be sleeping at night, President Nicos Anastasiades said Tuesday, a day after a panel handed over the ...

While the picture surrounding the election of a new House president remains murky, some light could emerge later on Tuesday when both Akel and Diko have scheduled meetings of their ...

There has been much uproar in the press about how Cyprus could ‘block’ an EU minimum corporate tax proposal, of the type that the G7 policy document released on Saturday ...

As the health ministry started issuing temporary vaccination certificates for June travellers on Tuesday, tourist enterprises discussed the much-anticipated EU Digital Covid-19 Certificate, which is set to be implemented on ...

Hellenic bank saw earnings of €89.3 million in the first quarter of 2021, and profit of €12.9 million after tax. These figures slightly exceeded analyst expectations. Profit before impairment losses, meaning the depreciation ...

The Supreme Court has upheld an eight-year jail sentence handed down to a defendant found guilty of possessing nearly 1 kilo of cocaine with intent to supply, the Cyprus News Agency ...

The village square of Pano Arodes has been spruced up thanks to the efforts of the local tourism board the deputy ministry of tourism. The work, which is part of ...

Former Kitium bishop Chrysostomos will appear before Larnaca district court on June 30 on charges of indecent assault against an underage woman, giving time for the criminal court to examine whether ...

The customs department seized over nine kilos of cannabis and confiscated around 67,000 cigarettes across Cyprus in May. On top of that, it also seized 893 cigars, almost 29 kilos of loose tobacco, 8,690 ...

A mugging victim chased his attacker only to have his car stolen and torched, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. It said that police were investigating a case of ...

A would-be burglar brandishing a knife was chased off by a kiosk employee with a piece of wood in Limassol early on Tuesday morning, the Cyprus News Agency reports. It ...

Cyprus police fined three individuals for not abiding with the measures in place to curb the spread of Covid-19. A police spokesperson told CNA that 3,457 checks were carried out in ...