Cyprus

Flooded trailer classrooms at a Larnaca public high school prompted the head of the secondary school parents’ association to issue a slew of complaints on Wednesday. Kostas Kosta said flooding ...

The number of registered unemployed individuals in Cyprus dropped by 12.4 per cent in November 2024, compared to the same month a year earlier, according to the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). Data ...

Improving the quality of life for Greek Cypriots living in areas of the north is a priority, government spokesman Konstatinos Letymbiotis said on Wednesday. “Upgrading the living conditions for Greek ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Wednesday thanked the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation and Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou for donating excavation equipment worth €45,000 to its cause. “The equipment will contribute to ...

Cyprus submitted its candidacy for the presidency of the OSCE for 2027 on Wednesday. “Cyprus already submitted its candidacy for the presidency, participating at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in ...

The whole industry is back to work, general secretary of the Peo union construction workers’ branch said on Wednesday. He said that out of a total of 560 ready-mix concrete workers 480 ...

By George Demetriades Nestled in the heart of Nicosia, on evergreen Pindarou, Beba is a restaurant that seems to have mastered the delicate art of being trendy without trying too ...

By Richard Boxall MSN Punjab Lions re-established themselves at the pinnacle of Cyprus cricket by winning the final of the 2024 BAOFinancial Autumn T20 Cup presented by HurryCurry at Happy Valley ...

Nicosia has become the first city in Cyprus to join the global Making Cities Resilient network 2030 (MCR2030), the city’s municipality announced on Wednesday. The network is a global initiative ...

An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale hit the sea area between Cyprus and Turkey at 11.09am on Wednesday. Cyprus’ geological survey department said the quake, felt in Cyprus, occurred ...

Crews had been working to restore power through medium voltage cables in individual properties in Sotira, Frenaros and Ayia Napa since early morning, the electricity authority (EAC) said on Wednesday. ...

Hiking trails in the Machairas national forest park, from Kyprovasa to Skotini and Vrysi tou Petris to Pente, will be closed from Wednesday to Friday, the forestry department announced. The ...

Cyprus will host the second international defence and security conference through the Cyprus Association of Research and Innovation Enterprises (CARIE), in collaboration with C.D Multimedia Services, and other leading ...

The police cybercrime unit on Wednesday, with the aid of Interpol, is continuing to investigate bomb threats sent to two hotels and a hospital overnight. Interpol is involved in the ...

On Wednesday the weather will be intermittently cloudy with isolated rains, mainly in the interior and the mountains, with a chance of a morning storm in the east. Temperatures will ...

People convicted for minor drug offences will be able to apply for a professional driver’s licence after a few years if an amendment to the law passes, which MPs ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Tuesday night called for ‘parliamentary’ elections to be held “as soon as possible”. Speaking to Genc TV, he built on earlier comments ...

Bomb threats were sent to a hospital and two hotels on Tuesday night, according to media reports. The messages were sent by email, with the email sent to the hospital ...

Three men, aged 48 years old, 37 years old, and 33 years old, were all arrested on Tuesday after police found them to be in possession of a total of 34 kilograms of cannabis. ...

Cyprus’ Green Line Regulation is “a tool to assist reunification”, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday. Speaking to the House foreign affairs committee, he said his ministry is in “...

The government’s goal is for the construction of the liquefied natural gas terminal at Vasiliko to be complete by the end of 2025, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Tuesday. ...

Suspicions remain that the fuel market is not as competitive as it could be, driving prices up for consumers, MPs said on Tuesday. Parliamentarians again called for “a policy to ...

MPs reported the commerce ministry to the House commerce committee on Tuesday for opening a tender process for the installation of solar water heaters while the issue was scheduled to ...

The introduction programmes in foreign languages at Cyprus’ public universities “does not undermine public schools”, the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) said on Tuesday. The ...