Cyprus News

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Tuesday warned of “consequences” for any “third country” which seeks to obstruct the construction of the Great Sea Interconnector, which, if complete, will link ...

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman said that the policies being followed by incumbent Ersin Tatar are turning the north into an “open-air prison”. “There have been no ...

Just 13 per cent of Cypriots favour the idea of Turkey joining the European Union, according to data published by the EU’s Eurobarometer survey on Tuesday. Meanwhile, 84 per cent of ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou will hold separate meetings with workers and employers over the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) with the aim of staving off the looming three-hour general strike over the ...

The House refugees committee on Tuesday discussed the creation of a new national fund to reimburse Greek Cypriots who lost access to their immovable property as a result of being ...

A father took his underage child to the office of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights wanting to leave the child there as he could not care for it properly, ...

The north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek) on Tuesday afternoon denied there had been a chlorine gas leak at the Teknecik power station near Kyrenia, alleging that the report of a ...

A 35-year-old woman suspected of extorting nearly €112,000 from her employer was remanded for eight days on Tuesday by Limassol district court. Limassol CID said the case is linked to an ...

Priti Patel, the United Kingdom’s current shadow foreign secretary and former international development secretary, suggested the creation of a new jetty off the coast of Gaza to facilitate the ...

A major car importer said on Tuesday that all fire engines pass technical inspections prior to being delivered to the fire department. CTC Automative Ltd was responding after reports the ...

Work is underway to put the Larnaca marina’s redevelopment “back on track”, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Tuesday. He was speaking after a meeting with the town’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides confirmed on Tuesday that the island has asked the United States for military equipment available either for free or at reduced cost under the US Excess Defence ...

Consumers pay up to €100 more for the same products depending on the supermarket they shop from, the Cyprus Consumers Association said on Tuesday. “There is strong evidence that supermarkets monitor ...

One of the five Greek Cypriots arrested in the north in July was taken to hospital on Tuesday at the end of the day’s court hearing. The five appeared ...

Huge balloons and lights reflecting the history of Larnaca as seen through the eyes of international installation artists will be included in the fast-approaching Larnaca Biennale, which will see the ...

In an extensive coordinated operation carried out in the last three days of August, police in the north arrested a total of 134 people for illegally residence. According to Turkish Cypriot ...

The government expects delivery of a report on the status of the half-finished LNG infrastructure at Vasiliko sometime in the next few days, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou told MPs on ...

Financial support for the restoration of solar heaters damaged in February’s wild weather has been approved by the council of ministers, the government announced on Tuesday, ruling that up ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday he has zero tolerance for corruption. “When the Cypriot people decide that I will not be President of the Republic, the most important thing ...

One third of new voters registered for the elections in the north on October 19 have obtained citizenship through a decision of the north’s ‘council of ministers’, Turkish Cypriot media ...

A 79-year-old man was remanded by Limassol district court on Tuesday after a 57-year-old man reported he had been beaten up by an unknown person while he was in his ...

Police on Tuesday made an appeal for information to help trace a 24-year-old woman from Israel who has been reported missing in Larnaca. The woman has been named as Tzadok ...

By Michele Kambas and Yiannis Kourtoglou Saint Nicholas church in the hills above Limassol, normally submerged in the Kouris Reservoir, offers a stark glimpse of the worsening water crisis in ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou is scheduled to meet with representatives of the secondary school teaching union Oelmek to discuss the latest evaluation scheme for teachers and educational work on Tuesday. ...