Cyprus

Cyprus’ commercial fleet has grown by an impressive 14 per cent over the last year, while the shipping industry now accounts for 7 per cent of gross domestic product, MPs heard on ...

Around 90 deputy mayors are getting paid on the taxpayer’s dime even though they have no official duties, the interior minister acknowledged in parliament on Monday. Constantinos Ioannou was at ...

Nicosia will host on November 27 the second intergovernmental summit between Cyprus and Greece, as well as the Cyprus-Greece-Jordan trilateral summit. According to a presidency statement, the Greece-Cyprus summit will take ...

State hospital doctors will go ahead with their planned 48-hour strike on Tuesday and Wednesday after a last-ditch meeting with the state health services organisation (Okypy) ended in impasse on ...

A new case of online fraud and extortion of cryptocurrencies, worth $110,000, is being investigated by Limassol police, following a complaint by a 26-year-old. Police said on Monday that the 26-year-old ...

Law Office senior attorney Alexia Kalispera is the first Cypriot to be elected to the bureau of the group of states against corruption (Greco) – the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption ...

A food collection campaign for needy people in Limassol will start on December 9. Limassol municipality announced on Monday that the food collection campaign is intended for the beneficiaries of the ...

In the middle of No Man’s Land, there stands a lonely fig tree. Each summer, its fruit ripens. But nobody comes to share it; years of fear and division ...

Out of sheer curiosity I asked our AI Overlords (blessed be thy Motherboard) through their official spokes-tool ChatGPT to write a film treatment about an MCU movie based in Cyprus. ...

Local wine Maratheftiko is celebrated on December 1, and this year an event in Paphos will bring together 26 wineries that produce it to celebrate. Maratheftiko is an ancient red variety, only ...

More than one third of women from Cyprus who took part in a European survey said they had experienced physical violence, sexual violence or the threat of it during their ...

Financial repercussions from the ongoing concrete workers’ strike are growing exponentially while the shortage of material has far-reaching and unforeseen effects, the director general of the Cyprus chamber of commerce (...

A debate on the Cyprus issue – coinciding with the condemnation of the 41st anniversary of the universal declaration of independence in the north – will be included in the Plenary Session ...

The Green party on Monday condemned the Limassol mayor’s participation in a conference alleged to promote Zionism. The party accused Mayor Yiannis Armeftis of taking part in the event ...

By Richard Boxall Sunday’s final of the 2024 BAOFinancial Autumn T20 Cup presented by HurryCurry will be contested by MSN Punjab Lions and Markhor after both came through their semi-finals ...

Thirty kilos of cocaine was found by police in a container in Larnaca, the force announced on Monday. Officers of the police drugs branch Ykan were searching the container after ...

Paphos police were on Monday looking for a man suspected of counterfeiting money. The suspect, aged 41, is wanted, while a 43-year-old is already in custody for the case, according to ...

An employee is wanted for theft of money and a check from his employer on Monday, Paphos police reported. According to Paphos assistant police chief Michalis Nicolaou, the case was ...

Crews were continuing to clean up the road network and damages to the power supply on Monday, in the aftermath of extreme winds on Sunday, which mainly affected the island’...

A section of John Kennedy Street in Nicosia was closed to traffic on Monday morning, police announced. The road section has been closed off since 8am for safety reasons, since ...

Police arrested 24 third country nationals over the weekend whose status in the Republic was illegal. They were then taken into custody and authorities have initiated procedures for their immediate repatriation. ...

The names of nine Cypriots, working as agents of the secret service of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) in Cyprus, at the height of the Cold War, in the seventies ...

Workers in the cement industry on Sunday called on the government to take a more active role in sorting out their labour crisis, with a strike ongoing for more than ...

Visitors can experience what it must have been like to be a passenger in the late 1960s at the now derelict Nicosia airport by taking part in a workshop “A ...