Cyprus News

With Christmas just around the corner, the forestry department will start selling Christmas trees sourced from Cyprus’ forests that need thinning out to improve growth, it announced on Tuesday. For ...

The annual bicommunal Coast to Coast run will be held on Saturday, uniting runners from Kyrenia and Larnaca in the Nicosia buffer zone. The total length of the run is 85...

Makarios children’s hospital occupancy rate has reached around 90 per cent, mostly with infants and children under four being treated for respiratory infections, the facility reported on Tuesday. Director of ...

Listed building facades in the heart of Fikardou village have been restored while maintaining their original character, as part of a landscaping project. Nicosia’s tourism board said doors and ...

The Cyprus Mail is now on Bluesky. Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging social media service primarily operated by Bluesky Social PBC, where users can interact in more or less the ...

An attempted murder investigation was underway in Nicosia on Tuesday, after two people were stabbed at a park on Monday evening. Police spokeswoman Eleni Constantinou said two males aged 24 and 16 ...

Electricity outages due to increased lightning activity have burnt out power supplying the communities of Emba, Tala, Chloraka and Kissonerga in the Paphos district, with three major power cuts over ...

The marine environment of Kato Pyrgos Tillyria in the Nicosia district is in immediate danger from organic material being dumped in the sea, Cyprus conservation foundation Terra Cypria and Friends ...

Initiatives to facilitate the access of visually impaired people to Larnaca’s tourist services are being promoted by the city’s tourism board, Ayios Varnavas blind school and non-profit association ‘...

An 18-year-old was arrested on Monday night in connection with car theft. Police received a complaint that a car with the keys in the ignition had been stolen from an ...

The two young men injured in the fatal car crash in Frenaros over the weekend are recovering in hospital, while the other three who were killed will be buried later ...

Paphos police arrested two people on Monday night in connection with conspiracy to commit a felony, burglary and theft, possession of burglary tools and malicious damage. On November 13 at 10.45pm, ...

Low pressure is affecting the area, bringing clouds with isolated showers and possibly an isolated thunderstorm, initially along the west and north coast and later in the mountains, inland and ...

A 47-year-old man, wanted by the Russian authorities for fraud, was arrested in Paphos on Monday afternoon. An arrest warrant had been pending against him for fraud committed between 2006 and 2015 ...

Kato Pyrgos mukhtar Nikos Kleanthous on Monday warned that Tillyria residents would “react strongly” if priority is not given to the opening of a crossing point at the Kokkina exclave. ...

The labour ministry submitted a mediation proposal on Monday aimed at renewing collective agreements for concrete workers. Amid weeks of strikes and negotiations, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said employers and ...

Two separate attacks against delivery drivers unfolded in Limassol on Monday evening, with police investigating both incidents. The first attack took place at around 7pm in Ayios Ioannis, where a ...

No evidence has come up concerning the existence of cartels or cartel-like behaviour in the retail fuel market or the banking industry, the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) ...

Tourist arrivals in Cyprus reached 3.73 million visitors in the first ten months of 2024, reflecting a 4.6 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2023. This also represents a modest 0.81 per ...

Parliament on Monday greenlit funds for the anti-corruption authority that the body says are indispensable to continue the work of investigations. Despite having given the authority some pushback last week, ...

Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Monday said it would be ineffective to adopt a nationwide anti-racism strategy, despite being urged to do so by the EU Commission, ombudswoman’s office, ...

The amount of rain which has fallen in November so far already exceeds 117 per cent of the average rainfall for the entire month, the met office revealed on Monday. An ...

Nicosia district court has dismissed a lawsuit against the state, the Central Bank and the Bank of Cyprus over the 2013 ‘haircut’ on deposits, the attorney-general’s office stated on Monday. ...

A total of 146 individuals found to be residing in the Republic illegally were returned to their countries of origin in the past week, police said on Monday. In total, 80 people ...