Cyprus News

A large project to install smart electricity meters will continue across Cyprus from Wednesday, the electricity authority of Cyprus (EAC) has confirmed. Smart meters record electricity use in real time. ...

Diko MP Pavlos Mylonas, who chairs the education committee, said on Wednesday that students raised serious concerns about soaring costs for studying in Greece.  Top of their list were the ...

The bus driver involved in a circulating video capturing a dispute between him and some teenage passengers has been suspended, transport company Emel said on Wednesday. A video of the ...

The European Commission’s annual rule of law report praised the progress made thus far in Cyprus’ efforts to reform its legal service and encouraged it to “further advance” those ...

Maintenance works on Famagusta gate on Nicosia’s Venetian walls will be completed by the end of the year, in time to be used for Cyprus’ EU presidency during the ...

The Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou on Wednesday confirmed that a disciplinary probe has started into a controversial book linked to the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Kassianidou made the announcement during ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Wednesday visited a section of Cyprus’ buffer zone near the village of Lefka, in the west of the island. She was accompanied by ...

The police on Wednesday issued an announcement warning of a new scam which is falsely promising tax refunds via text messages. “If you receive a similar message, ignore it and ...

A retired couple was sentenced to four years in prison at Larnaca district court on Wednesday for scamming three elderly women out of over €100,000 by pretending to be medical professionals ...

While vacationing in Protaras, my faithful dining companion and I both immediately knew we were going to try for a reservation at Il Boccon Divino, a place that caught our ...

The observatory in the case of Kenan Ayaz, who was convicted last year of being a member of a proscribed terrorist organisation after being extradited from Cyprus to Germany, has ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday extolled the “excellent relations” between Cyprus and Lebanon upon the arrival of his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Nicosia. “We have ...

One hundred new safe boxes have been installed on Mackenzie beach by the Larnaca municipality “as part of an ongoing effort to upgrade beach infrastructure and enhance bathers’ sense of ...

The Limassol criminal court on Wednesday sentenced a former Pattichion theatre director to five-and-a-half years in prison for theft and money laundering, between 2017 and 2020. The former director Vasos Argyrides, 65, was ...

Traffic on the Nicosia-Limassol highway will be interrupted at night by asphalt paving works on July 14 and 15, the department of public works has announced. The roadworks are scheduled to take ...

An 80-year-old man was murdered in his home in Limassol in the early hours of Wednesday morning, with his 47-year-old son verbally admitted to the crime and he has now ...

The deputy shipping ministry, although aware of reports that regular passenger ferry cruises linking Cyprus and Lebanon were about to be launched, said it could not comment on their veracity ...

A request was submitted on Wednesday at the Nicosia criminal court to change the conditions in which Israeli property developer Simon Aykut, accused of developing and selling property on Greek ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Wednesday held a meeting with Tanzanian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Thabit Kombo. Kombos attended the meeting on behalf of the European Union’s foreign affairs chief ...

The Cyprus association of care home owners on Wednesday expressed “strong dissatisfaction” over the way House labour committee discussed living conditions in private and state care homes for people with ...

A police officer has been arrested after being accused of domestic violence by his partner, according to reports on Wednesday. News website Alpha reported that the accusation was the third ...

An air-conditioned space was opened on Wednesday by Larnaca municipality to offer mostly the elderly a place to cool off in the face of extremely high temperatures. It said the ...

A total of 1,325 counterfeit Labubu toys, keychains and other accessories were seized in a coordinated operation carried out by the customs department on Tuesday, it announced on Wednesday. The operation, ...

A sixth person, aged 18, was arrested by police late on Tuesday suspected of being involved in a Paphos robbery on June 29 in which two tourists were injured. In the last ...