Cyprus

The state needs to beef up staffing and maintenance expertise in the Water Development Department (WDD) as other dams built in the same era as Mavrokolymbos, could suffer the same ...

As of Monday, Cypriot citizens can apply for electronic IDs to electronically sign documents and access governmental services online. The first 100,000 eIDs will be state subsidised with 30,000 issued completely free ...

The construction of a multifunctional park in Ayia Napa has begun, the municipality said on Monday. The aim of the municipality is to improve the quality of life of residents, ...

Turkish ambassador to the European Union Faruk Kaymakci on Sunday called for Cyprus to think of other European Union member states and allow the EU-Turkey high-level energy dialogue to restart. ...

The Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Evel) has called for a comprehensive and environmentally conscious approach to the redevelopment of the Lady’s Mile area. It also underlined the ...

Now that the days are getting longer and the sun shines a little brighter, we can look forward to fun spring days ahead. Annual festivals and new events are approaching ...

Police in Paphos arrested two individuals, aged 34 and 37, for an investigated case of burglary and theft after officers caught the the suspects in possession of stolen goods. According the police, ...

The Limassol district court has issued a four-day remand order against a 49-year-old man arrested in connection with a shooting in a residential area of Ayios Nikolaos area on Sunday. ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Monday will attend the 80th memorial of the Holocaust, in Krakow, Poland. According to a post on X, the minister will represent President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Monday will be mainly clear with increased after noon clouds in the south. Temperatures will rise to 19C degrees inland, 20C on the coast, and 9C in the higher mountains. ...

In what might appear to be a return to the Middle Ages, Diko MP Chrysanthos Savvides suggested this week that the mediaeval practice of falconry should be legalised to stop ‘...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Sunday expressed his opposition to what he described as the government’s efforts to “integrate Cyprus into Nato”. Speaking at his party’s youth wing ...

The north’s ‘finance ministry’ is using stolen cars for official purposes, former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator for the Cyprus problem Kudret Ozersay said on Sunday. In a post on ...

The fierce debate over the handling of traffic fines issued through speed cameras continued this week with MPs raising concerns about the legality of new procedures introduced by the police. ...

Two men, aged 23 and 22 years old, were both remanded in custody for five days on Sunday after being arrested on Saturday in connection with a burglary. The police had been ...

The carnival season is fast approaching! Coming up earlier this year, carnival season is getting ready to fill every corner of the island with masquerade parties, confetti, music and song. ...

A demonstration was held in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria square on Sunday over the train crash which killed 57 people between the Greek villages of Tempi and Evangelismos on the mainline ...

A 50-year-old man has died after being involved in a road traffic collision in the Larnaca district, the police announced on Sunday.. The man, named as Romanian national Ioulian Filip, ...

Residents of Rizokarpaso on Sunday staged a protest to demand that the road linking the village to the Apostolos Andeas monastery be completely rebuilt. A couple of hundred people blocked ...

A ceremony was heled in Limassol on Sunday to commemorate the 51st anniversary of the death of George Grivas, the leader of Eoka between 1955 and 1959 and the founder of Eoka ...

The Cyprus patients’ federation (Osak) has urged the health ministry to scrap plans for separate laws regulating public and private hospitals. Instead, they are calling for a unified legal framework ...

A tree was planted in London on Saturday as a memorial to the 24 Cypriot children and 11 Cypriot adults who died when the hotel in which they were staying in Turkey ...

Shots were fired in the direction of a house in Limassol in the early hours of Sunday morning, police said. The incident occurred shortly after 5am in the neighbourhood of ...

Two British nationals were arrested at Larnaca airport after having been found attempting to smuggle 148 boxes of cigarettes from the north to their home country. The pair, a 65-year-old man ...