Cyprus

Pensioners are set to protest outside the finance ministry on October 3 as part of their efforts to get the government to scrap a 12 per cent reduction to those who retire ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos announced on Friday that cabinet approved kidney and lung transplant agreements set to be signed on September 19 with the Greek government. Speaking after the cabinet meeting, ...

Cabinet on Friday approved a planning-permit amnesty plan that is expected to allow thousands of ‘trapped buyers’ to obtain a title deed, after they were unable to do so due ...

The EU’s anti-fraud office (Olaf) is investigating Cyprus’ fisheries department over a tender which the audit office on Friday said contained “unacceptable” conditions and cost €1.5 million more that the ...

Cyprus needs to implement better health vulnerability checks on incoming migrants, resolve issues related to unaccompanied minors and clear its backlog of asylum claims, the EU’s migration ‘czar’ said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday urged his ministers to adhere to a code of conduct and referred to the newly appointed Special Adviser on Ethics George Arestis for any questions. ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) terminated its contact with national men’s football team manager Timur Ketsbaia, an announcement said on Friday. The Georgian’s contract was due to expire ...

A seaside walking path in Kissonerga in Paphos cost the state more than ten times its original budget and took almost two decades to complete, an audit office report revealed. ...

The situation at Paphos airport is “unbearable”, Paphos district tourism development and promotion company (Etap) chairman Kyriacos Drousiotis said on Friday. “The situation is now unbearable at Paphos airport in ...

UN efforts are focusing on facilitating a joint meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar in the presence of UN chief Antonio Guterres, with the Greek ...

Bank of Cyprus shareholders on Friday approved the listing of the bank’s ordinary shares on the Athens Stock Exchange (ATHEX), pending a delisting from the London Stock Exchange (LSE). ...

Footballers’ association Pasp chairman Spyros Neofitides on Friday demanded that his association be given a cut of the income generated by taxes levied on takings by betting shops. He said ...

Minors who had caused ire among Larnaca locals earlier in the week following incidents at an elderly nursing home where they were housed, were moved overnight to other facilities, it ...

The Tashkent nature park in Vouno in the north of the island on Friday issued a call for donations to fund the newly formed “Karpasia donkeys management plan”. In a ...

Former Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos will officially unveil the new monument built to the Greek revolution of 1821 in Paphos, the town’s municipality announced on Friday. The unveiling will take ...

Bringing the Emirates into the Great Sea Interconnector (GIS) was at the centre of President Nikos Christodoulides’ trip to Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and the next few days will be ...

There is a need for a new strategic plan for blood donation, Miltos Miltiadou, president of the Pancyprian Thalassaemia Association, said on Friday, in response to messages sent to patients ...

A special guest will arrive on the island on November 21, on the occasion of the upcoming match of the Cyprus national team with the silver medalists in the recent Olympic ...

The state veterinary services announced on Friday the recall of K. Th. Nikolaou Ltd’s ‘Class A’ eggs after they were found to contain chlorates above the permissible levels. They ...

The council of ministers will on Friday discuss a proposal to fast-track legalisation of properties for which it is difficult to obtain title deeds, by securing planning amnesty for certain ...

A bureaucratic mistake rubbished a court decision to deny a migrant’s asylum application it emerged on Friday, after the Administrative Court for International Protection upheld the individual’s appeal. ...

Cypriot Twitch streamer Ahmet Sonuc, better known by his alias Jahrein, was arrested late on Thursday night in the Turkish Mediterranean city of Antalya for “obscenity”. The Antalya police headquarters ...

This Saturday, the United by Pride event will bring together the communities of the island with two parallel marches in Nicosia. The marches will begin at 6pm from Eleftheria Square ...

Two men, aged 39 and 32 years old, were arrested on Friday after being found digging a hole on the road to the St Hilarion castle in the Kyrenia district in the ...