Cyprus

Two cars in Paphos were destroyed in a fire, police said on Friday. The two cars, belonging to a couple, caught fire on Thursday night, necessitating the fire service to ...

The board of directors of state-owned asset management company Kedipes this week decided to make the largest quarterly cash payment to the state since its establishment in 2018, amounting to €140 million, ...

Cyprus’ Industrial Production Index for January 2024 saw a 4.2 per cent rise compared to the same period in 2023, reaching 99.5 units, with 2021 being the base year with a value of 100 units, according ...

In today’s episode, the electricity subsidy is to be extended until the end of June as part of the government’s latest package of measures aimed at alleviating the ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has invited Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to meet him in New York, the Cyprus Mail learned on Friday. High-level sources confirmed that the meeting ...

Another guided walk in the old town of Nicosia is set to take place this weekend, organised by the Home for Cooperation. This Saturday’s walk will take participants across ...

Police in Limassol arrested two men as suspects in a drug dealing bust after they were found with over 5kg of cannabis, authorities said on Friday. According to police, the ...

European parliament president Roberta Metsola is set to visit Larnaca port to oversee works being conducted for the Amalthea humanitarian aid corridor to Gaza, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

The division of Cyprus continues to hinder the full enjoyment of human rights by all persons throughout the island, the annual report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner ...

Employees of public broadcaster CyBC will be paid after April 1, its board of directors said on Friday. The board said payments would be made “immediately” after Monday’s public holiday, “...

Low-wage civil servants belonging to the Isotita union will go on a two-hour strike on Friday over delays in upgrading their pay grades. The strike will be held from 1pm ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday met with the advisory committee on tax reform, asking that progress on this matter be accelerated, in order to reap any benefits at the earliest ...

Controversial works regarding the building of a monastery in an environmentally sensitive area in Ayia Napa are being investigated, it emerged on Thursday. Speaking to CyBC, deputy environmental department director ...

Cyprus is “particularly vulnerable” to the effects of climate change, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou announced on Thursday during an event organised by the meteorology department, coinciding with World Meteorology Day. ...

The House plenum on Thursday passed the budgets of four more public-law entities, including the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) and the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC). The two other public ...

MPs at the House health committee on Thursday called on state health services organisation (Okypy) and the health ministry to promptly address the hospitalisation and post-operative care of liver transplant ...

Out-of-court fines for traffic violations will largely remain the same but offenders will have more time to pay them, according to tweaks to the legislation discussed in parliament on Thursday. ...

Music knows no boundaries. Some of it is structured and carefully planned to produce divine melodies. Yet there exists a world where music is born on the spot, improvised, and ...

A Turkish Cypriot born to a “mixed marriage” had his appeal against a denial of his Cypriot citizenship rejected by the Nicosia administrative court on Thursday. The court upheld the 2007 ...

The Limassol district court on Thursday sentenced a 25-year-old to two years in prison for a fatal traffic accident that took place on July 10, 2020, resulting in the death of 19-year-old ...

Police have secured bank details for the two monks embroiled in a massive scandal, though they have yet to appear before the church-appointed investigative committee. A CNA source on Thursday ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Thursday accused of threatening to incinerate his own 79-year-old mother. Police officer Hasan Celik said in court that the man had ...

CyBC’s delayed budget submission was deemed “proverbial callousness” by opposition Akel on Thursday, who proposed a law to stop delays in budget submissions from semi-governmental organisations. “It will put ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Thursday that Israel “is not our enemy”. Reactions to the issue of property sales to third country nationals in the north have been “...