Cyprus

Complaints to the financial ombudsman’s office rose by 20 per cent last year to 1,121, Financial Commissioner Valentina Georgiadou said on Friday. The office is the single body for out-of-court resolution ...

Portugal demolished England 4-1 at the Ammochostos Stadium in Larnaca on Friday night to maintain their perfect start to the Uefa under 17 championship. England did have the better of the ...

One in three people in Cyprus are hypertensive, Cyprus’ cardiology and pathology societies announced on Friday. Launching a high blood pressure awareness campaign in light of World Hypertension Day, it ...

Nicosia district court has ordered state broadcaster (CyBC) to freeze €450,000 that should be paid to journalist Evdokia Loizou, it emerged on Friday. CyBC had all its bank accounts frozen in ...

Thirteen fire trucks were battling a huge fire in Limassol’s Paramali village on Friday afternoon, while scores of firefighting aircraft were deployed to the area. British bases cautioned drivers ...

Monks embroiled in the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal have said that the investigative committee’s procedures are illegal, according to a statement from their lawyers on Friday. Their lawyers, Adrianna ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli announced on Friday he will sue the north’s animal producers’ and breeders’ union chairman Mustafa Naimogullari over what he described as “slander” ...

By Robert Morgan Beware of fraudulent e-mails from sender “Service EMS official” and [email protected], the postal service warned on Friday. The fraudulent messages falsely claim to be related ...

By Robert Morgan President Christodoulides will meet with the Emir of Qatar during his official visit to Cyprus on Tuesday, May 28th to discuss bilateral relations, regional developments like the ...

Neither the legal service nor the police were found to have leaked information to local and foreign media in connection with a criminal case brought against a leading property developer ...

There was a slight increase in the absolute numbers of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Cyprus in January of this year, with the ratio of NPLs to total loans remaining stable ...

Four people appeared in court in the north on Friday, accused of having attempted to coordinate a crossing to the Republic using counterfeit German identity cards. Two of the detainees, ...

Property values in Cyprus marked an increase during the first quarter of 2024, compared to the same period during the previous year, according to a report released on Friday by real ...

The north wishes it could send humanitarian aid to Gaza, ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore said on Friday. Deputising for Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar at a ceremony for members of ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Friday addressed the graduation ceremony for the new frogmen of the National Guard at the ‘Evangelos Florakis’ naval base. Speaking to the graduates, Palmas acknowledged ...

President Nikos Christodoulides addressed students at Jagiellonian University in Krakow on Friday in what is the second day of his official visit to Poland, the first for a Cypriot president. ...

The European Commission this week issued reasoned opinions, the final step before referring cases to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), to Cyprus and other member states for failing to ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court has upheld an appeals-court ruling that the second-term appointment of the former Commissioner for the Protection of Competition Loukia Christodoulou was legal, the legal service said. ...

Hellenic Bank on Friday released its financial results for the first quarter of 2024, recording an after-tax profit of €93.3 million, with interim CEO Antonis Rouvas saying that the year “started on ...

Nine-year-old Cypriot ballet dancer Helen Zeniou won a bronze medal at the VKIBC world championships in New York. Zeniou won the bronze medal in her age category after completing two “...

Cyprus has handled over 2,500 complaints and imposed more than €1.5 million in administrative fines in the six years since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, Commissioner for Personal ...

By Robert Morgan A 35-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a string of robberies from EAC electrical substations and a residence in Famagusta province, police said on Friday. ...

Social workers announced on Friday they had indefinitely suspended their on-call service. The service will not be resumed until every social worker who has been seconded from the social welfare ...

The labour inspection department plans to step up safety checks in the construction sector during the months of July, August and September, it was announced on Friday. “The construction sector ...