Cyprus

Should Cyprus’ Costas Kadis be confirmed as EU commissioner, he’d receive a generous financial package that includes a host of perks including hotel room service. It transpired on Monday ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) says the aim of all involved in the competitive electricity market was to contribute to the lowest possible price of electricity for all consumers, ...

There is a “positive climate” in discussions with trade unions for the renewal of the collective agreement in the hotel industry, Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe) director general Philokypros Roussounides said ...

A research vessel conducting surveys of the seabed for the proposed electricity cable linking Greece and Cyprus was this week being monitored at a distance by the Turkish navy, but ...

The number of migrants stranded in the buffer zone has reached 86, as arrivals continue unabated to the Green Line without access to asylum proceedings, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said ...

Up to 100,000 people could be evacuated from Lebanon through Cyprus, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday, with the government preparing for “all possible scenarios”. “It will not be an ...

Environmentalists on Tuesday called for “aerial intervention” by way of spraying pine trees with pesticides to save them from pine processionary caterpillars, which are known to damage and even kill ...

New Turkish ambassador in the north Yasin Ekrem Serim on Tuesday pledged to “try my best to bring the Turkish Cypriot people and Turkish citizens living here to the sunlit ...

A new head of the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) was appointed on Tuesday after the former chairman passed away. The new chairman of Defa is Giorgos Ashikalis. He replaces ...

Three tobacco busts were made by the customs department last week, which saw 174 cartons of 200 cigarettes each and over 12kg of rolling tobacco, as well as a packet of rolling ...

A 25-year-old man charged with misusing Greek Cypriot property in the north was released on €92,000 bail on Tuesday. He appeared before Nicosia district court in the morning, which referred the ...

Closing statements will be made in Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz’s trial in Hamburg, Germany on September 2, it emerged on Tuesday. According to a statement from the Kenan Ayaz Observatory, ...

Only 800 away fans will be allowed to attend “high-risk” football matches, the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) said on Tuesday. Following a board meeting, CFA chairman Giorgos Koumas said the ten ...

A 21-year-old man died on Tuesday after being involved in a traffic accident in Dasaki Achnas the previous evening. The man named as Neofytos Constanti died after a crash that ...

Cyprus received 29.9 applications from first-time asylum seekers for every 100,000 people in May 2024 compared to its population, according to data published by Eurostat on Tuesday. The drop in first-time asylum applications ...

The Cypriot art scene is brimming with talent and creativity, yet it often lacks the international recognition it deserves. Kalo Mina, a New York-based platform, is dedicated to changing this ...

Tourist numbers at the close of the current season are expected to hit approximately the same levels as in 2023 but remain lower than the pre-Covid levels of 2019, with the odd ...

Concerns were raised on Tuesday over the continued use of portacabins as makeshift classrooms in the north’s schools. Cyprus Turkish teachers’ trade union (Ktos) leader Burak Mavis insisted after ...

The fees levied on internet and telecommunications service providers by the north’s telecommunications department were all doubled, the north’s internet service providers’ association said on Tuesday. The association ...

Turkish Cypriots have reacted angrily to a reported deal struck between the Republic of Cyprus and tour operators to cut the number of overseas tourists visiting the north while on ...

Private renewable energy (RES) companies are trying to squeeze the electricity authority (EAC) out of the running, the authority’s chairman said on Tuesday. Giorgos Petrou made his statements to ...

Turkey’s participation in the unofficial EU foreign affairs council meeting on August 29 was based on the decisions made in a recent EU Council report, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said ...

The number of burglaries across Nicosia has decreased in the ‘worrisome’ month of August this year, according to a report on Tuesday. August is usually the month that the capital ...

Troubles are far from over for the besieged Larnaca marina and port project, the constituency’s Diko MP Christos Orphanides said on Tuesday. Speaking to the state broadcaster, Orphanides said ...