Cyprus

Measures to address overcrowding, improve living conditions, and strengthen supervision at Nicosia central prisons will be taken, Justice Minister Constantinos Fitiris said on Saturday. He was speaking after a meeting ...

The two-day search and rescue exercise Artemis 2025 has been completed, testing the country’s readiness to respond to a major earthquake, civil defence spokesman Panayiotis Liasides said on Saturday. The ...

Some four thousand years ago, Cyprus was home to the oldest perfume factory in the Mediterranean, located in the village of Pyrgos, east of Limassol. Abandoned following an earthquake, one ...

Pension reform bills will be submitted in 2026 rather than the previously stated target of the end of 2025, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Saturday. He said the delay is linked ...

Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, proposed on Saturday that Cyprus MEP Fidias Panayiotou should become president of the European Union. The suggestion came shortly after a ...

A total of 3,945 people have been granted ‘citizenship’ in the north in the last three years while 573 gun licences have also been issued, according to ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz, it ...

Prisoner found dead in central prison A 23-year-old Syrian national, identified as Abdul Kader Almfalani, currently serving a sentence at Nicosia central prison, has died, police confirmed on Saturday. He ...

Striking teachers should think of the message they are sending students, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. Reform, he said, promotes the worthy teacher – those who are selfless and ...

Saturday’s weather will be mostly fine with occasional patches of increased cloud. Winds will be light to moderate, variable in direction at 3 to 4 on the Beaufort scale. The sea ...

A new group exhibition opening at NiMAC this Friday begins from two key reference points: a 1943 statement by John Burns in the Daily Mail describing the Thames river as “liquid ...

Cypriot businesses are continuing to invest, innovate, and remain resilient in the face of geopolitical tensions and global trade disruptions, according to the latest European Investment Bank (EIB) investment survey ...

Farmers in Cyprus will take to the streets on Thursday next week to protest against the “new architecture” of the European Union’s common agricultural policy. Thomas Thoma, the union ...

The Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman met this week with the European Union’s special representative for Cyprus, Johannes Hahn, in a move criticised by senior Turkish Cypriot officials as ...

A protest took place on Friday outside the EU Commission in Cyprus building in Nicosia, part of an EU-wide campaign with protests in over 20 cities centred around students and researchers. ...

Cyprus on Friday welcomed a reference to United Nations security council resolutions in a recent joint statement, calling it a key step in aligning negotiations with international law. The announcement ...

A workshop in Larnaca on Friday brought together 60 final-year pupils to test practical responses to severe flooding, as part of a wider effort to strengthen climate resilience among young people.  ...

Larnaca’s appointment as the European Capital of Culture 2030 (ECoC) is a success that will benefit the whole island, Limassol Mayor Yiannis Armeftis said on Friday, congratulating the city on ...

Defence Minister Vassilis Palmas said on Friday that the upgrade of the National Guard’s operational capacity remains a core priority, as the force seeks to maintain a modern and ...

Two major unions and a growing number of police officers seek to challenge plans by the force to drastically reduce annual days off work. In a joint statement, trade union ...

More than half of people aged between 18 and 25 years old have not yet registered to vote in May’s parliamentary elections, while the total number of eligible but unregistered voters ...

The education ministry has set January 12–16, 2026 as the official registration and transfer period for public kindergartens for the 2026–27 school year. This will be the only registration window. No new class ...

New Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides on Friday said he aims to attract more young people into the nursing profession. “The goal is to encourage young people to choose a profession ...

More than 3,000 establishments in Paphos face suspension for operating without the required licences, the municipality has warned. A physical inspection of business premises found that a wide range of operations – ...

Cyprus’ bus fleet remained one of the smallest in the European Union in 2024, something which is commensurate with its size, according to a report released on Friday by Eurostat. Specifically, ...