Cyprus News

The Green Party on Thursday expressed “great concern” over plans to develop Aphrodite’s Rock that would cause “irrevocable damage” to the environment. In a statement, it said there were ...

Trikomo’s Turkish Cypriot mayor Hasan Sadikoglu and his municipality are both the subjects of a case which was handed over to the Turkish Cypriot police on Thursday, alleging lawbreaking ...

Nicosia municipality, in cooperation with the Keead information training centre and the Akelius language foundation is offering free English lessons for beginners, it announced on Thursday. The classes will start ...

More than 80 per cent of recent graduates in Cyprus were employed in 2023, according to data collected by the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat. This figure is a slight decrease ...

Around 600 new housing units are to be constructed in Limassol in the next six years for rent or purchase as part of the state’s affordable housing policy, the Cyprus ...

Children’s orchestra Sistema Cyprus’ Larnaca branch’s future has been secured thanks to the latest donation put forward by foreign exchange company XM. XM’s donation has covered the ...

Implementation of local government reforms in the Paphos district has not gotten off to a great start, the president of the Union of Paphos Communities said on Friday. Michalis Nikandros ...

A 31-year-old asylum seeker was arrested on Wednesday at the Limassol port for attempting to travel under false identity. The woman, originally from Congo, tried to board the ferry to ...

July was the warmest July in Cyprus’ history, the Met Department said on Wednesday, saying that many warm nights contributed to the record. According to the data, July saw a ...

Those held responsible for the deaths of 35 Cypriots when the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed during last year’s earthquakes “will get the punishment they deserve”, ...

Solid pieces of plastic were found in the excrement produced by a green turtle which was taken to the Tashkent Nature Park in Vouni for treatment after it was found ...

The Cyprus government and the Turkish Cypriot leadership are in a furious row over a decision by tour operator Tui to stop daytrips to the north, with leader Ersin Tatar ...

A British tourist was found dead in his hotel in Ayia Napa, police said on Wednesday. The tourist, 30, was found unconscious in his hotel room on Tuesday night, and was ...

Two more streets in the north of Nicosia’s old town are to be pedestrianised, the Nicosia Turkish Municipality (LTB) announced on Wednesday. The LTB announced it had put out ...

The two would-be hitmen who were arrested in Kyrenia last week having allegedly travelled to the north to kill a “businessman” appeared in court for a third time on Wednesday. ...

Prices between Larnaca and Tel Aviv, Israel were capped on Wednesday by Israel’s state airline company Elal. After a meeting with Israel’s Finance Minister Nir Barkat, the company ...

Cyprus will be participating in Junior Eurovision 2024 with 11-year-old Maria Pissarides, it was announced on Wednesday. The contest will be taking place in Madrid on November 16, 2024. According to an announcement ...

The Turkish Cypriot Famagusta municipality on Wednesday announced it had issued a total of five fines for drivers of sewage tankers which had been caught dumping raw sewage at the ...

An EU-funded €19 million project to install 12MWp capacity photovoltaics and energy storage systems at 54 defence ministry and National Guard units within three years was signed on Wednesday. The contract between ...

Evidence of late chalcolithic period copper mining was found during an archaeological dig carried out this summer near the Paphos district village of Makounta. An archaeological team made up of ...

Parliament has moved to file an objection over the president’s decision to refer the contentious capital statements legislation to the Supreme Constitutional Court, it was reported on Wednesday. The ...

The University of Cyprus on Wednesday announced that it would open up the remaining unfilled places for students starting undergraduate programmes to those who passed international high school examinations. Those ...

A state-of-the-art cable station and offshore submerging infrastructure will be built in Cyprus to enhance digital connectivity in the eastern Mediterranean. The strategic cooperation between Grid Telecom and Tamares Telecom ...

A shipment of 12,000 tonnes of diesel is expected to arrive in the north on Wednesday to power the Teknecik power station, as repair work continues on its broken and dysfunctional ...