Cyprus

Larnaca shop owners on Friday blasted works that began in November to remodel the commercial centre, saying that business has been affected as Christmas shoppers can’t get to them. ...

A house was broken into on Thursday night in Mouttalos, Paphos, and the burglars managed to get away with €500 and electronic equipment, while the owner was out. Police investigated the ...

Cyprus, EIB sign agreement to fund island roadworks By Rebekah Gregoriades The vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Kyriacos Kakouris, on Friday signed the first €100 million tranche of ...

The workforce in Cyprus’ broader public sector totalled 73,137 employees in the third quarter of 2024, according to a report released this week by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). For the first ...

Mainly fine weather with clouds can be expected on Friday, with isolated showers in the evening. Winds will be a gentle to moderate north to northeast breeze, 3 to 4 Beaufort, over ...

Pentakomo harbour threatens seals, say environmentalists Environmental organisations have called for the immediate termination of works on the Pentakomo harbour, which are threatening the Mediterranean monk seal and the surrounding ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) said Thursday that it has cancelled a second-division football match scheduled for this weekend after being alerted to suspicious betting activity. The game in question, ...

A French company has agreed to buy a significant stake in the Great Sea Interconnector project, media reports said on Thursday. Bloomberg broke the story, naming the company as Meridiam ...

There were fewer schools per students in primary education during the 2022-2023 academic year compared to the previous year, according to a survey released by the Statistical Service on Thursday. ...

Accusations of corruption erupted in Paphos on Thursday between local authorities regarding the decision to grant a permit to a hotel in Latsi. Polis Chrysochous Mayor Yiotis Papachristofi accused Paphos ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday sent back to parliament a law passed two weeks ago that makes illegal transactions in liquid assets of over €10,000. The president refused to sign off ...

Cyprus this week requested from the European Commission the fifth tranche of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), a statement said on Thursday. Pending approval from Brussels, the ...

The north’s ‘health minister’ Hakan Dincyurek “should not have lasted for two minutes” after it came to light that seven newborn babies had been fed ethanol in northern Nicosia’...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Thursday congratulated the 2024 graduating class of the military police, wishing them well on their new role as keepers of law and order in the army. ...

Trust in institutions and the media is lower in Cyprus compared to the EU average, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey released on Thursday. The survey, conducted between October and ...

Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou on Thursday called on the public to be patient as waiting times at state hospital A&E departments began to skyrocket. This is due to ...

The Akamas municipality hosted between 700 and 750 civil marriages in 2024, generating approximately €420,000 in revenue, according to marriage officer Stella Demetriou. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), Demetriou described the year ...

Turkey’s defence ministry is concerned about the strengthening of relations between the United States and the Republic of Cyprus in the field of defence, according to reports on Thursday. ...

Invest Cyprus on Thursday announced that it has being re-elected to the board of the ANIMA Investment Network. Launched in 2006 within the framework of the Barcelona Process-Euromed partnership, ANIMA has ...

The Turkish Cypriot police began investigating Ali Kismir before a complaint was filed against him, according to police inspector Durmus Aydin. Aydin was called as the third and final witness ...

The petrol station owners’ association on Thursday expressed its concern over a looming investigation on suspected fuel price distortion, claiming it would yield no tangible results and only cause delays. “...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday called for a roadmap to be created to devise the next steps of Syria’s future after its former leader Bashar al-Assad was overthrown earlier ...

As part of the EU’s effort to form a close relationship with young people, Fisheries Commissioner Costas Kadis met on Thursday with Education Minister Athena Michaelidou in a bid ...

A total of 11 missing persons were identified through the framework of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) this year, representative of the office of the Greek Cypriot member Leonidas Pantelides ...