Cyprus

If you are a certain age and live in Cyprus, you will have probably partied at an AfroBanana Festival. Music stages in the forest, village installations and community art happenings ...

House president Annita Demetriou spent over €15,000 for luxury hotel rooms for three nights for those accompanying her on a trip to London, according to a report released by the audit ...

Cyprus enters 2025’s wildfire season with the strongest firefighting force in its history, the government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. According to the government spokesman’s announcement, Cyprus is ...

The community advocacy group Syrians in Cyprus on Tuesday expressed concerns about the “tight” timeline set out in the government’s new voluntary repatriation plan for Syrian nationals who have ...

Energy Minister Geroge Papanastasiou on Tuesday praised the “common political will” of his eight counterparts from the European Union’s other ‘Med9’ states to “promote a coherent green development strategy”. ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou visited the social insurance offices in Paphos on Tuesday afternoon, following damage to a window caused by an object launched at high speed. Earlier in the ...

The Cyprus securities and exchange commission (CySEC) on Tuesday said it is “taking practical steps to collect all the available data and information” before deciding whether it will investigate claims ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will meet Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis in Athens on Thursday, according to reports. The Cyprus News Agency reported that Holguin will meet Gerapetritis ...

Can the worlds of classical ballet and Zorba the Greek collide? It seems so as a highly anticipated production this year brings a unique celebration of Greek spirit, movement and ...

A car was completely destroyed by a fire in the Larnaca suburb of Oroklini in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Larnaca police spokesman Christodoulos Konsolos said the fire broke ...

Nursery school workers across Cyprus went on strike on Tuesday, demanding better pay and conditions. Their trade unions, Paseu-Peo and Ouuk-Sek, said on Tuesday morning that they had sent various ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ voted in the early hours of Tuesday morning to relax its laws relating to the operation of casinos, following a full day of arguments over the ...

Tuesday’s weather is set to be mostly clear across most of the island, though clouds may gather and isolated rain and even the odd storm may be possible late ...

The construction of a new port in the Limassol district village of Pentakomo would have “immediate and irreversible environmental impacts”, ornithological charity BirdLife Cyprus’ campaign coordinator Tasos Shialis said on ...

Greek-Cypriot TikTok personality Nikos Peletie has reportedly been arrested for alleged offenses of sexist rhetoric and incitement to violence following public complaints raised by women’s rights groups. According to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar formally kicked off his campaign to win re-election on Monday evening, bringing together the three political parties which have endorsed his campaign for his first ...

The trial of former Volunteer Commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki continued on Monday before the Nicosia District Court, with testimony from two former presidents of the Cyprus Youth Organisation (Onek) and a ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday met with his Albanian counterpart, Igli Hasani, to discuss regional developments, including Albania’s accession to the European Union and the Cyprus problem. Kombos ...

Girls in Cyprus reported gambling more than boys in physical locations, drinking more alcohol, and using more synthetic drugs, but they scored lower than boys and below the threshold on ...

A package of bills aiming to straighten out the issue of multiple state pensions paid to certain state officials will go to the plenum on June 19, with MPs on Monday ...

A proposal to grant terminally ill patients the option of assisted suicide elicited a vigorous debate in parliament on Monday, with some MPs and organised groups advocating for a more ...

Gender equality commissioner Josie Christodoulou has emphasised the “vital role” of rural women in society and called on the government to support initiatives aimed at strengthening their contributions. “The rural ...

Parliamentarians on Monday wrapped up discussion of bills proposing to create a national financial sanctions implementation unit, with the legislation now set to head out to the plenum for a ...

Voters in Tsada will head to the polls this coming Sunday to elect a new church committee, following a decision to annul the previous one. The elections will take place ...