Cyprus

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to end the ‘hiring freeze’ on vacated permanent positions in the public sector, reversing a policy instituted twelve years ago. The repeal act ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday met with the leadership of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac). The president is currently in the United States, heading up a high-level Cypriot ...

Women can now enlist voluntarily in the National Guard, for a minimum of six months, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. The law passed with 32 MPs voting in ...

MPs on Thursday called for Auditor-General Andreas Papaconstantinou to intervene on the matter of smart bus stops, with some quarters having alleged that they have been erected the wrong way ...

Cyprus is bracing for economic uncertainty as trade tensions within the European Union threaten to create wider instability. While the island nation is not at the centre of the disputes, ...

The former Civil Registry and Migration Department was slow in processing applications for Cypriot citizenship and for permanent residence, as a result of which some 12,000 applications were pending at the ...

The Consumer Protection Service has issued its first fine for violating the maximum resale price of drinking water in designated areas. The fine was imposed on CE Sportcourt Ltd, the ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Thursday unveiled a raft of proposed amendments to laws concerning local government, with the stated aim of “improving the legislative framework for the benefit of ...

A three-storey car park, costing nearly €7 million, is under construction in Paralimni to help address the city’s ongoing parking shortage, officials announced on Thursday. Work on the car park, ...

Limassol municipality has urged organisations, schools, businesses and community groups to contribute to its Easter care package initiative, which will be distributed through its ‘social grocery.’ “These packages aim to ...

You may not realise it, but some of the world’s most admired wines are blends – a mix of different grape varieties. Many of those with which you may be ...

The trial of journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of having “insulted” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was on Thursday adjourned until April 17. ...

Plans for a new solar farm to be built in the buffer zone which separates Cyprus’ two sides appear to have reached something of a deadlock after Wednesday’s meeting ...

The Union of Cyprus Journalists (UCJ) expressed its full support on Thursday to journalist Theodosia Apostolou after she received death threats following a post on her news website ‘Larnaka Online’. ...

The former auditor general of Cyprus, Odysseas Michaelides, is set to announce his political future next month, with the possibility of founding a new party gaining traction. Speaking to Politis ...

The trial of the two men who stand accused of having murdered 39-year-old Andreas Kouzoupis and 38-year-old David Chmelar and then putting their bodies in a car which they then ...

Social welfare service workers staged a two-hour work stoppage on Thursday, from 11.30am till 1.30pm, to protest the “targeting of social welfare service workers” following the alleged abuse case of ...

The Greek Cypriot side is acting in a manner which is “pathetic and childish”, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said on Thursday. Speaking to Gundem Kibris Web TV, ...

A video of a mouflon giving birth in a forest went viral on Facebook on Thursday morning. Mouflons are usually hard to spot as they are not only shy but ...

Dates were set on Thursday for the next hearings of the trial of the two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by news company Al Jazeera into the ...

The pain of uncertainty still haunts families in Cyprus, five decades after the island was divided. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Cypriot diplomat Rona Panteli called the issue of ...

The three-member committee appointed to examine the recalls process for cars imported from the EU and third countries began its first public hearings on Thursday. The first witness to testify ...

A 30-year-old wanted after a loaded gun was found last November in an open area of Konia community, Paphos, was arrested on Wednesday night for conspiracy to commit a crime ...

A car abandoned in a remote area of Pyrgos, Limassol, was totally destroyed on Thursday, shortly after midnight, according to the police. The fire was reported to have started 40 minutes ...