Cyprus

Doctors working at public hospitals did not turn up to a meeting which would have aimed to distribute performance-based bonuses paid by the state health services (Okypy). Okypy had a ...

A total of three people were arrested for living in Cyprus illegally during police raids which took place between Friday and Sunday morning. The arrests were made as part of ...

Rubbish weighing 1.2 tonnes was collected from the harbour in front of Paphos castle on Sunday, among which old tyres, iron and even an armchair were found. In just one hour, 12 ...

A seven-year-old girl died at Makarios hospital in Nicosia on Monday after an incident in a pool in Protaras on Sunday. The girl had been found unconscious in the pool ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested in Limassol, driving over twice the speed limit, police said on Monday. The man was spotted at around 1.35am on Monday driving at 192km per ...

Police fined a 50-year-old man with €1,000 for transporting cigarettes from the north, it emerged on Monday. The man was found on Sunday night in Kissonerga, Paphos. Police found 11 cigarette boxes ...

British Cypriot member of the House of Lords Baroness Meral Hussein-Ece said a bicycle filled with dog excrement was left outside her cousin’s home on Sunday as far-right riots ...

Far-right British fugitive Tommy Robinson is currently on holiday in Cyprus, staying at a holiday village near Cape Greco. Robinson, a former member of the fascist British National Party and ...

The newly formed municipality of East Paphos has requested its name be officially changed to Municipality of Ierokipia, it emerged on Monday. “We want to preserve the historical identity of ...

The first phase of the Nicosia ring road is to set be officially completed and handed over on Thursday, the public works department said on Monday. Deputy director of the ...

Police in Paphos over the weekend arrested of a 33-year-old man for threatening and assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. According ...

The Paphos district court on Saturday issued a five-day remand for a 45-year-old woman for a case of theft of thousands of euros worth from a department store in Paphos. ...

Monday will be mostly clear with some low clouds on the coasts and a chance of brief afternoon showers in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 38C in the interior, 32...

The Olympic spotlight on Monday is turned the final of the horizontal bar in which Cypriot gymnast, Marios Georgiou, is taking part. Georgiou qualified for the horizontal bar final on ...

Police on Monday are treating a stabbing incident in Limassol overnight as attempted murder, after a 29-year-old man was seriously wounded with a knife. According to the police, the incident ...

A memorial service was held on Sunday at Kykkos Monastery for Archbishop Makarios III, the first President of the Republic of Cyprus, who passed away on August 3, 1977. The service was ...

Mathiatis may not be the centre of the universe, but it is certainly considered to be the ‘centre of balance’ in Cyprus, and that’s not just according to local ...

Fishermen are to be offered increased support to cull the population of the venomous silver-cheeked toadfish, a type of pufferfish from the Indo-Pacific region, the fisheries department announced this week. ...

Two men were remanded for eight-days by the Limassol District Court on Sunday in an ongoing drugs investigation. The two men, 31 and 26, were arrested on Saturday after police drug squad ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that there would be no cover-up in the ongoing investigations related to the Vasiliko LNG case. The president was replying to journalists’ questions after ...

Police arrested the mother, 21, of a 3-month-old baby that died in Nicosia General last week from malnourishment and neglect. The woman, who had been abroad, was arrested on Saturday night ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s refusal to attend a UN meeting would show contempt towards the international body and the Turkish Cypriot people, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. ...

“Any person having in his possession, custody, control or disposition any sponge, knowing that it has been taken in contravention of this Law, shall be liable to a fine not ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar denied on Sunday receiving an invite to meet with the UN and said he would not accept even if there was. Tatar said that that ...