Cyprus

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday spoke of “progress” in talks between Nicosia and Athens regarding the Great Sea Interconnector – the mooted subsea cable connecting the electricity grids of Cyprus and ...

Turkey on Thursday condemned this week’s signing of a roadmap to boost two-way defence co-operation between the United States and the Republic of Cyprus. The US steps, including last ...

Serdal Gunduz, the 30 per cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, was charged with 130 more counts of fraud, document forgery, and ...

The government on Thursday said President Christodoulides currently receives a pension of just €600 a month, contradicting earlier reports that the amount comes to €1,000. Speaking to a television news network, deputy ...

Companies registered in Cyprus are part of an ongoing probe led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) into a €30 million VAT fraud and money-laundering scheme, it emerged on ...

Seven pharmacies that have secured an interim court order and operate as they please complained on Thursday about the ruckus being caused by the pharmacists’ association clamouring to have the ...

A festival celebrating crushed green olives? Oh yes! The 53rd edition in fact is coming up in Tseri on Friday bringing a variety of traditional activities and flavours. The Crushed ...

Portacabins being used to temporarily house classrooms at Lapithos’ Yavuzlar high school have been placed on a dried-up river bed, Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ union (Ktoeos) chairwoman Selma Eylem ...

Cyprus issued over 30,000 residence permits in 2023, mostly to Russians, Indians, and Nepalese individuals, a Eurostat report showed on Thursday. According to the report, Cyprus gave out 34,000 residence permits last year, ...

The Republic of Cyprus’ airports recorded their largest ever passenger numbers during the first eight months of the year. In total, exactly 8,179,421 passengers passed through Cyprus’ two airports between January ...

The Pan-Cyprian Student Co-ordinating Committee (Psem) said on Thursday that the issue of installing air conditioning in schools had become a mockery because the president and others had not fulfilled ...

Competitive shooters in Cyprus are “abandoning the sport” due to dysfunction and mismanagement among the sport’s administrators. During a meeting between athletes, coaches, parents, and sporting administrators, it was ...

Four stages, a stellar line-up of both international and local DJs, immersive art installations and visual effects and three long nights of electronic music are coming up as the BEONIX ...

A 40-year-old has been handed a five-day remand order to facilitate investigations into a burglary earlier this week in Limassol, in which the perpetrators got away with €820,000-worth of property. ...

Dangerous buildings in Cyprus are “a thorn in the government’s side”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Thursday. Speaking to the House interior committee, he said his ministry is ...

Cyprus’ High Commission in London has filed a complaint against a British news station, it emerged on Thursday, after the channel presented Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, as the ‘president ...

The electricity authority (EAC) announced on Thursday that there will be power cuts on Sunday from 5am until 11am in some Limassol villages. According to the EAC announcement, the disruption ...

An electricity panel exploded at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport, the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s employees’ trade union El-Sen chairman Ahmet Tugcu said on Thursday. Tugcu said ...

Cyprus’ National Guard is in a worse position than it was before 1974, the Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) has said. Despite being more organised and better equipped, the 60-year-old National ...

A total of 1,950 teachers across Cyprus objected to their placements or transfers for the academic year which has just become, education service committee chairman Panayiotis Antoniou said on Thursday. Speaking ...

The government and airport operator Hermes are close to reaching a deal on the second phase of works promised at the Larnaca and Paphos airports, which would extend the company’...

The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) is a top priority for Israel, the country’s energy ministry head Eli Cohen has said, adding he stressed this to Cyprus’ Energy Minister George ...

Limassol’s criminal court opened its doors to chaos on Thursday morning, as relatives of Turkish Cypriots – accused of robbing food delivery drivers – stormed the building. The relatives were demanding ...

The process of hiring of new staff at the Paphos general hospital is in the “final stage”, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Thursday. Speaking to ...