A comprehensive overview of current news in Cyprus, covering everything from local events and political developments to social issues and community highlights
Awareness of Lyme Disease is growing around the world, but it can still be difficult to get a diagnosis
By Dina Gavarieva
More than 14 per cent of the world’s ...
British bases police and customs officers, in cooperation with Cyprus police, made multiple arrests in a pre-Easter festivities clampdown, it was announced on Wednesday.
“In two of the five planned ...
The Cyprus International Theatre Festival opens on Monday with the premier of Apocalypse Tomorrow by the Berlin-based company Kirill & Friends created by theatre director, filmmaker and Cannes winner Kirill ...
In today’s episode, the audit office said it is ready to deal with any steps from the legal service aimed at removing auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides from his post.
Meanwhile, ...
Political parties on Wednesday officially announced their candidates for June’s European Parliament elections.
The announcements were made one after another at Nicosia’s Filoxenia conference centre.
Disy leader Annita ...
Police in Paphos arrested a 39-year-old man on Tuesday, for an investigated case of burglary and theft from a warehouse in Tala.
According to the police, on Saturday a 30-year-old ...
Paphos police on Tuesday arrested a 35-year-old man for investigated case of illegal possession of burglary tools and a knife.
According to police, officers stopped a car in which three ...
Investigations are continuing on Wednesday into the daylight shooting of a man on a busy road in Nicosia while the incident has rekindled reprovals over police ineffectiveness.
The victim was ...
From forest conservation to the circular economy
By Martin Clark
At a national, European-wide or international level, environmental policy is usually reactive. It comes about due to an acute problem-generated ...
The Paphos municipality has informed consumers that it is investigating complaints submitted about high water bills on Wednesday.
According to the municipality’s announcement, the high bills sent to approximately 450 ...
President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday addressed the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev), during the federation’s annual general meeting, where he reiterated the government’s support for the local ...
Wednesday will be partly cloudy and hot, with episodes of dust. Temperatures will rise to 36C inland, 32C on the north and west coasts, 30C on the east and south ...
Cypriot MEP candidates will officially submit their candidacies on Wednesday amid criticism of the interior ministry for making it difficult for those in place to attend the closing session of ...
Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides on Tuesday blasted the veterinary services for negligence or failure to take the necessary steps as the competent agency to examine complaints regarding the uncontrolled importation of ...
The completion of the bill for the management of Turkish Cypriot assets will be delayed as the government has not carried out a public consultation, House refugee committee chair Nikos ...
The 2023 US country report on human rights in Cyprus raised serious concerns over media freedom and life-threatening conditions in prison in the north.
Published on Tuesday, it highlighted that ‘authorities’ ...
As soon as the weather gets a little warmer and the first few rays of – stronge r- sunshine appear, arts crafts markets return! This April and May, several are being ...
Cyprus has spent €40 million on hosting Ukrainian refugees, according to an Audit Office report released on Tuesday.
Of this amount, so far the European Commission has refunded Cyprus to the ...
The Internal Audit Service pushed back hard against the auditor-general on Tuesday, returning the favour by accusing the official of “serious negligence and conduct unbecoming” in connection to a report ...
Over half of the domestic wine market is covered by Cypriot wines, the House commerce committee heard on Tuesday.
The agriculture ministry estimates that 55 per cent of wines available in ...
Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides has begun an independent investigation into the circumstances behind 24-year-old Anisur Rahman’s death, it emerged on Tuesday.
Rahman, a Bangladeshi national, fell to his death ...
President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday addressed the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev), during the federation’s annual general meeting, where he reiterated the government’s support for the local ...
Whereas the government is doing all it can to contain and manage the influx of migrants, the situation could still spiral out of control especially if neighbouring Lebanon collapses as ...
Improvements to the coastal path in Limassol should be a government priority, members of the House commerce committee said on Tuesday but instead no-one from the interior ministry even attended ...