Cyprus

Police arrested a 71-year-old on Monday evening in connection with two large cocaine-related cases, after he was located in Germany and handed over to the Cypriot authorities. On May 13, 2022, a 58...

Experts will be entering Paphos’ desalination plant for investigations if deemed safe after the building was cleared out on Tuesday. Paphos police’s Michalis Nicolaou said the building was still ...

A 26-year-old man, who was found wounded in the yard of an abandoned block of flats in Limassol, with fractures and multiple bruising, is being treated in critical condition. Police ...

Three people were arrested in Paphos on Monday for allegedly circulating forged documents and impersonation. Paphos police’s Michalis Nicolaou said that between 7.30pm and 8pm, three people attempted to ...

Tuesday started off cloudy and misty in many areas. Winds in the morning will be a gentle northeast to southeast breeze of 3 Beaufort, and northwest in western areas. The sea ...

The Famagusta regional tourism board (Etap) recently held a meeting with representatives of EasyJet Holidays, the holiday division of the low-cost airline, it was announced on Monday. The meeting, which ...

The financial wellbeing of Cypriot citizens has marked a significant decline, according to the results of the Financial Wellbeing Index 2024. Presented for the first time by the Financial Wellbeing Institute, ...

Three months after getting sacked on grounds of ‘conduct unbecoming’, former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Monday received an honorary distinction as an “anti-corruption fighter”. The event was organised by the ...

The new mental health centre in Athalassa, Nicosia, was inaugurated on Monday, with President Nikos Christodoulides speaking of a long-overdue project. The existing psychiatric hospital in Athalassa dates to 1964. Now ...

A former attorney-general has advised President Nikos Christodoulides to seek a renegotiation with the United Kingdom over the status of the British bases on the island, it emerged on Monday. ...

Larnaca municipality will submit a proposal to the government suggesting the temporary management of the marina be handed to the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI) as a stop gap ...

Despite appearing to lack the necessary support in parliament, a bill imposing a new ‘bank tax’ will go to the House plenum later this week. Tabled by opposition party Akel, ...

A number of Syrian nationals in Cyprus are eyeing a return to their home country, Deputy Minister for Migration Nicholas Ioannides said on Monday after President Bashar al-Assad’s fall ...

A defrocked monk who held the title of Archimandrite Nektarios has filed a complaint with the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection over audiovisual material of him that has been run ...

A barrage of complaints was filed by Monday after former Cypriot footballer Costas Malekkos said women should accept that men are in charge, during a TV interview. His statements during ...

Over 100 Cypriot antiquities, including pottery jewellery, coins and religious icons illegally removed from the island have now been repatriated from the UK, the antiquities department said on Monday. The artefacts ...

Kurdish residents of Cyprus staged a protest march on Monday from Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square to the US embassy to request Washington step in to stop attacks on Kurds in ...

Once upon a time, Christmas wasn’t this way. Especially in Cyprus. Granted, Easter has always been the biggest celebration in this part of the world. And winter is all ...

Motor vehicle registrations in Cyprus rose by 10.1 per cent from January to November 2024, with the growing popularity of electric and hybrid vehicles driving the market shift. According to the statistical ...

The developments in Syria, security, migration and the Cyprus problem will be among the key topics of discussion during UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s visit to the island on ...

The US and Cyprus on Monday said they had reaffirmed “their shared commitment to enhancing Cypriot capabilities to counter illicit finance”. A joint statement was issued by the US embassy ...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! A time where projects are delayed for an unspecified time in the near future (January 3rd, it’s January 3rd), gatherings ...

Twenty-seven unions are holding a demonstration outside the Turkish Cypriot ‘finance ministry’ in northern Nicosia on Monday as they continue their protests against inflation. The protest against the high cost ...

Almost three quarters of Cypriots “tend to not trust” the government or parliament and 56 per cent do not trust the EU, according to the autumn Eurobarometer. The tendency not to ...