Cyprus

Disy MP Savia Orphanidou on Wednesday announced she would forego the civil servant’s pension which she had been receiving. She said her monthly pension of €218.47 would be paid into ...

The rising number of traffic accident fatalities was the focus of the Road Safety Council that convened on Wednesday under Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades. To date, 29 road deaths have been ...

Air traffic control will finally move to its new premises in Kokkinotrimithia, a €16 million building that has been empty since it was built 15 years ago, the government announced on Wednesday. ...

An ongoing church trial against monks involved in the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal was on Wednesday postponed until next week. The six-member Holy Synod court decided that they would postpone ...

Two men, aged 34 and 33, were both handed eight-day remands on Wednesday after being accused of having trafficked the 20 people found aboard a migrant boat which had departed Cyprus for Italy ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou on Wednesday said she does not “wake up for 2028”, when asked about Cyprus’ next presidential elections. Asked by TV channel Sigma if she would run, she ...

The forthcoming Davis Cup tennis matches between Israel and Ukraine will take place at the Herodotou Tennis Academy in Larnaca. Israel had been the designated home team for the fixture, ...

Edek on Wednesday called on the government to convene a meeting with political parties over the Great Sea Interconnector asdiscussions continue with stakeholders about the future of the project. The ...

New fixed traffic cameras will be operational from Monday at the intersection of Spyros Kyprianou and Ayias Fylaxeos avenues in Limassol, police said on Wednesday. According to police, three new ...

A questionnaire issued by the education ministry’s school medical services has caused concern among parents for replacing the terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ with ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’, the House education ...

Local authorities were up in arms on Wednesday about a group of unaccompanied minors in Larnaca who have been removed from a previous facility to a state nursing home in ...

Citing the risk of absconding, a court decided on Wednesday that Turkish-Israeli businessman Simon Aykut will be held until his trial and dismissed a request by his lawyers that he ...

Discussions regarding the regulatory framework for the Great Sea Interconnector connecting Cyprus to Crete will carry on “for as long as it takes”, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on ...

The full file of the case against Serdal Gunduz, the 30 per cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, will be presented ...

The expression “a little piece of paradise” is often overused, but it is very apt when it comes to The Secret Garden. We were thrilled to discover this restaurant during ...

Around 85,000 new voters will be registered when automatic voter registration is introduced, chief returning officer Elikkos Ilias said on Wednesday. In addition, he said, should the government’s plans for ...

A fire broke out at in the early morning on Wednesday in an apartment at the abandoned St Nicolas complex in Chlorakas. According to the police, two fire engines rushed ...

Wednesday will be mostly clear with some increased cloud cover in the eastern half of the island and a chance of isolated afternoon rains in the mountains. Temperatures will rise ...

Management of the Karpaz Gate Marina near the village of Ayia Triada in the Karpas peninsula has been transferred out of Israeli hands and put under the operation of Turkish ...

An 18-year-old was arrested on Tuesday for the possession and distribution of child pornography. Police began investigating the case after a message from Europol that an internet user had uploaded 17 ...

Unaccompanied children, who were forced to leave the country in 1974 as a result of the Turkish invasion, is a repercussion that has not received the attention it deserved, President Nikos ...

Larnaca’s criminal court sentenced a 30-year-old to 11 years in prison for illegally importing 15.6 kilos of cannabis. The court heard that the 30-year-old had been arrested on July 6 on arrival ...

Burglars on Tuesday got away with €820,000-worth of property from an apartment along the coast in Limassol. Police said a foreigner reported that around dawn on Tuesday burglars broke into ...

Cyprus recorded the lowest standardised death rates for suicide with 2.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, according to data released by Eurostat, marking the World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10. In 2021, there were 47,346 ...