Cyprus News

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) are suggesting VAT on electricity bills is lowered to five per cent across the board for the next three months to help contain costs ...

Several fires that erupted over the last two weeks in the Akamas national park area were likely man-made, according to a report compiled by the forestry department, which said the ...

There will be no increase in the price of fresh milk, at least for the time being, it was announced on Tuesday after strong reactions over a dairy company’s ...

Police on Tuesday were investigating after a camera was found in the women’s locker room at Nicosia general hospital. Authorities received information after the camera was discovered in the ...

History is written by the achievements of individuals such as Nicos Galis, President Nicos Anastasiades said as he presented the Greek basketball legend the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of ...

The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) on Tuesday expressed its sincere thanks to the Republic of Ireland for its donation of €25,000, which was received on November 8, 2021. This contribution ...

In today’s episode, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris has told MPs that Cyprus is in a state of emergency as regards irregular migration, mainly coming through the buffer zone via ...

Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili will meet President Nicos Anastasiades during her official visit to the island on Tuesday to discuss developments in the Cyprus problem and the two countries’ bilateral ...

Police on Tuesday said they issued 15 fines following 2,540 checks for the implementation of coronavirus protocols in the last 24 hours. Most checks, 1,037, were carried out in Nicosia, where two people were ...

Kyndryl, a managed infrastructure services company, completed its separation from American technology giant IBM on November 3, beginning trading on the New York Stock Exchange the day after. “We are thrilled ...

The Cyprus Union of Bank Employees (ETYK) has renewed its collective agreement with card payments and processing company JCC until 2022. The trade union explained that since the Bank of Cyprus ...

Construction work has begun on the ship that will convert liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the fuel’s gaseous form, burned to generate electrical power at Vasilikos, an official statement ...

A person’s vaccination certificate is only valid for one year from the date of the first dose having been administered, according to the latest Q&A info sheet ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Monday called out President Nicos Anastasiades over the affair where four of the president’s associates – previously contract workers – were effectively granted civil-servant status, with the ...

The health ministry announced 284 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday. No deaths were reported. The death toll remains 576, of whom 368 were men and 208 women. There are 67 people being treated for ...

Cyprus is one of France’s top partners in the Eastern Mediterranean region, Captain Paul Merveilleux du Vignaux, commanding officer of French frigate ‘Auvergne’ said on Monday. The frigate docked ...

Patients’ rights are still not fully realised – as enshrined in the European Charter of Patients’ Rights – despite Gesy having been up and running for two years, according to discussions held ...

A generous €100 million from the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) will be allocated to education reform, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Monday. “Coming out of the pandemic ...

The interior ministry’s housing expenditure is up threefold for 2022, minister Nicos Nouris told the House finance committee during discussion of the ministry’s budget. Nouris said his ministry’s ...

Early ‘general elections’ in the north will take place on January 23, it was announced on Monday. According to reports in the north, ‘parliament president’ Onder Sennaroglu, announced that all parties ...

The government green-lit close to 400 passports for foreign nationals applying under the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme, after the scheme was terminated, MPs heard on Monday. Interior Minister Nicos Nouris, while ...

Bahrain was the only country upgraded to the green category of destinations deemed safer for travelling as regards the spread of Covid-19. The latest updates announced by the health ministry, ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Cyprus was in a state of emergency as regards irregular migration, mainly coming through the buffer zone from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the ...

It is still too early to be discussing the 2023 presidential elections, ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou said on Monday after a poll showed Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides leading the running ...