Cyprus News

It is time for fiscal discipline and not populism, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Sunday. In an interview with Kathimerini, he said the economy is showing resilience in the ...

Turkey is determined to protect the security of the north and the rights of the Turkish Cypriot people, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said, criticising the build up of EU ...

Daytime temperatures have not yet risen too much, but growth goes on everywhere despite the slight chill in the air. Alas, having said that, temperatures can shoot up suddenly later ...

Meat belongs to Cyprus like the sea lapping our shores. It is so ingrained in Cypriot culture that we even dedicate whole days to it, Tsiknopempti for example. But amid ...

The government remains committed to supporting district government organisations (EOAs) with the necessary tools, resources and the appropriate institutional framework so they can operate successfully, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will attend Monday’s meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurma, with the necessary political will and a creative approach, with the aim of resuming direct negotiations ...

Cyprus is moving to bolster its air defence capabilities amid rising regional tensions, with Greece’s Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI) positioning its systems as a cost-effective response to the growing ...

A mobile desalination plant in Limassol port has been put into full operation, the agriculture ministry said on Sunday, underlining that the planning for the permanent solution of Cyprus’ water ...

The Republic of Cyprus is currently at a significant constitutional juncture. The legislative debate on amending Article 17 of the Constitution, which guarantees the secrecy of correspondence, for a new surveillance ...

Six people were arrested overnight as police stepped up checks for the use of firecrackers, and the lighting of Easter bonfires, police said on Sunday. In addition to the six ...

Police are investigating the cause of death of an 86-year-old man who died while driving on the Analiontas-Tseri road on Sunday. Under circumstances that are being investigated, he lost control ...

Clouds in the morning will give way to rain and even isolated thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon and into the evening. There is even the chance of hail falling in some ...

Maintenance work has begun on the Ayios Georgios church of Mezere in occupied Karavas, while the church of Ayia Irini will also be maintained under the same contract, officials said ...

A fire in the early hours of Sunday in a car belonging to a 30-year-old man in Aradippou was successfully put out by the fire service, it said on Sunday ...

Organised police patrols throughout the island overnight on Saturday and into Sunday morning saw the arrest of nine people. They were arrested for offences including illegal possession of explosives and ...

Fingers crossed: that’s how industry stakeholders see the fate of the tourism sector this year amid the war raging in the Persian Gulf. Prospective travelers, already spooked, are either ...

Jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Saturday evening moved to defend himself over accusations that he had erected a statue of the Republic of Cyprus’ founding president Archbishop Makarios III ...

A new regional firefighting hub is to be inaugurated in Cyprus this month, the government said on Saturday. It said the hub will be inaugurated by President Nikos Christodoulides and ...

A transit road through the Turkish Cypriot Kokkina exclave would “unimaginably” improve the lives of Greek Cypriots who live in the surrounding villages, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. “It ...

Bolstering Cyprus’ defence infrastructure is a “top priority” for the government, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday, in advance of a visit to Paphos’ Andreas Papandreou airbase. “I am glad ...

The police have stepped up their crackdown on those intending to light Easter bonfires, known as “lambradjies”, with firewood being seized from various sites around the island. They announced that ...

Energy Minister Michalis Damianos outlined his ministry’s 2025 achievements and priorities for 2026, while acknowledging ongoing uncertainty surrounding the delayed Vasiliko natural gas project. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, ...

A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of having broken into a house and stolen three bottles of beer from its fridge, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Saturday. ...

In July last year, 39-year-old Nikos Leontis boarded a ferry in Limassol on a Yamaha XMAX maxi-scooter, headed on a journey across Europe to continue all the way down south ...