Cyprus

A brand-new festival will take place later this year at the Municipal Gardens of Nicosia. Although there is a while to go before the Antama Festival in late September, works ...

The presidential palace received zero waste to landfill’ certification on Tuesday, becoming the island’s first government building to hit the target. The certification was presented during a ceremony in ...

Top students, parents and teachers have blasted a national maths exam as “impossibly challenging”, it emerged on Tuesday. The exam, which is used for university entry in Cyprus and Greece, ...

The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) is a pioneer in green practices having been awarded the Zero Waste to Landfill certificate for the eighth year running, it announced on Tuesday. In 2023, ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos will focus his efforts to improve the health, housing, education and cultural sectors, he said on Tuesday when he officially accepted another term as mayor. Phedonos, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has called on the UN to present an unbiased and fair report on Cyprus, noting that direct recognition of the north was not a prerequisite, ...

A fire broke out in the area between Avdimou and Pissouri in the Limassol district on Tuesday. According to fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis, two trucks from their service and ...

New acting prison director Charis Philippides said on Tuesday that progress is being made towards stamping out organised crime in prisons and corruption among guards. “It is important to bear ...

Repeating the government’s official tirade on Turkish intransigence and praising its own dedication to resuming negotiations on the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis gave a lukewarm response to ...

Attorney General George Savvides would be happy to see Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides “completely annihilated,” the Supreme Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday. The statement was made by Michaelides as he ...

Skala Theatre presents the nationwide premiere of the play Antigone after Sophocles by Loula Ratska, directed by Maria Varnakkidou. The play premiered in Larnaca at the end of June and ...

Legislative changes to local government reform are to be discussed in September, after a two-month trial period to determine the reform’s exact financial and logistical outputs, Interior Minister Constantinos ...

A wanted man arrested for financial fraud will be brought before the Larnaca district court on Tuesday for the start of his extradition process. Police arrested the man on Monday ...

Police on Monday arrested a man in the midst of a warehouse theft in Nicosia. According to police, shortly after midnight, they received a tip-off about a suspicious person, who ...

A 79-year-old man who was run over by a car in Larnaca on Monday succumbed to his injuries shortly before midnight. The deceased, named as Michalakis Georgiou, a resident of ...

Thousands of patients and their relatives were supported through the activities of the cancer patients’ association (Pasykaf), the association has announced. During 2023 a total of 7,968 people were served and two ...

Tuesday will be mostly clear with some increased clouds in the mountains in the afternoon. Temperatures will rise to 39C inland, 36C on the south and east coasts, 35C on ...

Ceramics and stone tools and objects, dating to the Late Bronze Age, have been unearthed in Pitharka, a site that appears to have been peacefully abandoned by its settlers. Pitharka ...

The head of the UN Security Council on Monday said that UN Secretary-General personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin has only found there is no common ground for a Cyprus solution. ...

Cyprus’ Energy Regulatory Authority (Cera) has received on Monday the proposal of Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (Admie) on what the revenue of the Israel-Cyprus-Greece (Great Sea Interconnector) electricity ...

Two men, 46 and 35, suspected of hiding weapons in a Oroklini grave pleaded not guilty to the Larnaca Criminal Court on Monday. Specifically, the two men were charged with conspiracy to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides hit out at UN Special Representative in Cyprus and Unficyp head Colin Stewart on Monday over statements the latter made about 28 migrants stranded in the buffer zone. ...

Parliament has no authority to dish out administrative sanctions – such as fines – on MPs for failing to file their wealth declaration on time, the House said on Monday responding to ...

Banks as well as government officials on Monday all but gave the thumbs-down to the idea of taxing the windfall profits of commercial lenders, a proposal brought by opposition party ...