Cyprus

Efforts to arrange further meetings to discuss the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) with trade union and employer representatives are underway and will likely take place by the end of the week, ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades has not ruled out an extension to the deadline for replacing defective Takata airbags. The deadline is set for October 2, but about 35,000 vehicles are still subject ...

The Golden Age: a dance-party With a dazzling existential party performance presented by the Greek National Opera, the curtain rises on the Nicosia International Festival 2025. On Thursday and Friday, the ...

Ministry renamed to Interior and Civil Protection All crisis management services in Cyprus will be brought under the interior ministry, which will be renamed the interior and civil protection ministry, ...

Pafos FC will face Greek side Olympiacos in their historic Champions League debut tonight in Piraeus, with kick-of at 7.45pm. The match will be broadcast by Cytavision. The Cyprus champions ...

A five-day remand order was issued against a 46-year-old man on Wednesday, in connection to stolen property discovered on Tuesday in an abandoned building in Limassol. The man was arrested ...

Both the justice ministry and police have been accused of not taking an alleged rape in the central prison seriously enough, it appeared on Wednesday. The incident came to light ...

A Walking Bus pilot programme has been launched by the transport ministry and Nicosia municipality at a primary school in Aglandjia, encouraging children to walk to class. This initiative sees ...

A joint operation involving police, municipal health services, the tax department, the fire service and Nicosia district government officials was carried out on Tuesday to enhance security in the old ...

This year must be a week of solutions, not impressions, United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres said overnight speaking at the UN headquarters in New York ahead of the high-level week ...

Cyprus relied on cars for 60.6 per cent of all passenger-kilometres in 2023, according to a report released this week by Eurostat. The European Union’s statistical office added that air transport ...

Jumping on the European Mobility Week 2025 celebrations that are happening around Europe this week, Nicosia has planned events for old and young to discover how we can move around the ...

A Paphos pensioner remained in hospital on Wednesday after a serious traffic accident at around 9pm on Tuesday on Michalaki Kyprianou Avenue. The 72-year-old driver lost control of his vehicle ...

The House legal committee on Wednesday begins examining a bill to reform the Audit Office. The legislation aims to modernise the office of the auditor general (AG) following the early ...

More than 80,000 households in Cyprus will be affected in the medium term by the government’s decision to end net metering at the close of 2025. However, many consumers remain unclear ...

A group of people reportedly forced entry into a residence occupied by their compatriots, carrying bats and large knives in Strovolos overnight, police said on Wednesday. Inside the home, the ...

A spell of seasonal low pressure is affecting Cyprus on Wednesday, bringing clear skies with some local cloud later in the day. According to the Meteorological Service, winds will begin ...

By Martin Clark In Western Europe, if we go back in time just 100 years, almost everything that our Great Grandparents ate, used or wore, was locally made. The making, especially ...

Savvas Papasavas has been re-elected vice-president of the general court of the European Union for the period from September 16 to August 31, 2028. The re-election follows a partial renewal of the court’...

More than 850 donors from the Karaiskakio Foundation registry in Cyprus have provided transplants to patients in 35 countries, the organisation has announced. The update came on Saturday, marked as World Marrow ...

Talks between Cyprus trade unions and the Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou ended on Tuesday without an agreement on the future of the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA). A new meeting ...

The construction of the Nicosia-Palaichori highway is progressing, said Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday. Speaking at the site, Vafeades said that while the project has experienced a minor delay, ...

Five Greek Cypriots who tried to visit their properties in northern Cyprus remain illegally detained by the Turkish-controlled authorities, the country’s Foreign Minister, Konstantinos Kombos, said on Tuesday. He ...

The centre of excellence Eratosthenes of the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) and the municipality of Paralimni-Deryneia have agreed to extend their strategic cooperation for the next four years. The ...