Cyprus

JEAN CHRISTOU: Without meaning to sound ungrateful, almost two years after ‘kind of leaving’ the rat race, I’m still waiting for that idyllic retirement to materialise: the one where ...

As his Reuters obituary put it on Monday, Jimmy Carter was “widely seen as a better former president than he was a president”, and this capacity extended to a trip ...

While Jimmy Carter’s election as president of the United States in 1976 may have been a close-run contest, it was greeted with almost unanimous elation in Cyprus. Church bells rang ...

For decades, the Larnaca-Dhekelia road was a symbol of industry. The rhythmic hum of oil tankers and the silhouette of towering fuel tanks defined this coastal stretch. But today, a ...

Cyprus retail trade association secretary Marios Antoniou on Monday expressed satisfaction with both customer footfall and revenue during the holiday season. Supermarkets and toy stores in particular thrived during this ...

Cypriot journalist Alex Efthyvoulou, the owner of English-language newspaper Cyprus Weekly, died aged 97 on Monday. Reacting to news of his death, President Nikos Christodoulides described Efthyvoulou as a “pioneering journalist ...

Limassol and Larnaca municipalities on Monday announced they would let off “silent fireworks” as part of their new year celebrations. “For the first time, Limassol municipality will bring the magic ...

A church service will take place on January 6 in the occupied church of Ayia Triada, the village council announced on Monday. The liturgy will begin at 8am and finish at ...

The Association of Cyprus Banks on Monday announced that interbank and cross-border transactions will soon be completed in just 10 seconds, with the service being available round-the-clock. The new service will ...

A new English radio station will be launched on January 1 in Cyprus, the people behind it said on Monday. Wow Radio Online will play a mixture of hit songs while ...

Polis Chrysochous’ new sewerage system is expected to be completed in 2029, the town’s mayor Yiotis Papachristofi said on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he explained the contract ...

Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said he was “saddened” by the death of former United States President Jimmy Carter the previous day. Christodoulides described Carter as “a selfless leader ...

The United States may offer financial assistance to the Republic of Cyprus to upgrade the Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. Speaking to newspaper ...

Turkish sporting giants Besiktas JK on Sunday night named Cypriot businessman Serdal Adali as the club’s new chairman. Adali secured a club record total of 8,901 votes among the club’...

A 49-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Sunday night after police found a loaded pistol in his car. The police found the pistol, which had seven full cartridges in ...

Yet more snow is expected to fall atop the Troodos mountains on Monday and overnight into Tuesday, with hailstones and rain expected in lower ground across other parts of the ...

The Cyprus problem in 2024 started with a bang or two, then a whimper, then another bang and wimped out again by December, mid-year coming as it did on the 50th ...

To call it a milepost year in anti-free speech might be taking it too far, but definitely 2024 had its fair share of such troubling incidents. But the more precedents are ...

Thirty-five years ago, I was strapped into a parachute and yanked skywards by a speedboat. After the initial shock, I was floating in nothingness, a complete and total silence, viewing ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Sunday said it was “deeply saddened” by the aeroplane crash which occurred in South Korea earlier in the day and killed almost 180 people. It offered its “...

The Ierokipia municipality on Sunday announced it is taking legal action against the Paphos district government and the consortium which operates the Paphos water treatment plant, near the village of ...

THE HORRORS inflicted upon Gaza in the last 15 months have invoked an urge to do something to feel like one is not simply a bystander and is on the right ...

Paphos on Saturday night hosted a Christmas classic car parade, with cars making their way from the town hall square around the local streets. The municipality said the parade “filled ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said some of his fiercest critics “have never accepted the Cypriot people’s verdict in the 2023 presidential elections”. Speaking to newspaper Phileleftheros, he said his ...