Cyprus

Years of dumping tonnes of rubbish in a waste management plant that does not have the capacity to process municipal waste from the Limassol district it was built to serve, ...

Limassol medical centre director Andreas Pantazis on Wednesday called for private ambulances to be included in Gesy. In an explosive letter written to Health Minister Michael Damianos, he said the ...

More than 1,000 people are currently incarcerated at the north’s prison, Cyprus Turkish civil servants’ trade union (Ktams) leader Guven Bengihan said on Thursday. Speaking to news website Kibris Postasi, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday announced his intention to seek re-election next year. Speaking to Turkish television channel A Haber, he said, “having achieved all I have achieved, ...

Inspiring stories are coming to Kalopanayiotis village as the second edition of Pop Up Talks, Stories That Inspire is set to take place in the first week of August. Following ...

The K-Cineplex cinema at the Mall of Cyprus closed for good on Sunday. The cinema had been open for 17 years. Announcing the closure, the Mall of Cyprus expressed its “gratitude” ...

Sigma TV chief executive officer Chrysanthos Tsouroullis briefly had his X account locked after “doxing” a well-known parody account on the platform which goes by the name “Jho Low”. “Doxing” ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to limit the number of third-country nationals accepted to each of the 21 private universities in Cyprus. The proposal was put forward by Education ...

The European Commission on Wednesday urged Cyprus to move forward in strengthening the independence of the legal service, amid calls for convictions for high-level cases of corruption. In its 2024 Rule ...

A contract worth €50 million was signed by the electricity authority (EAC) and the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) on Thursday for the installation of and subsequent operation of smart meters across ...

The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) is set to open a branch in Cyprus, offering all the course and specialisations available at its Athens campus. The plans were confirmed ...

The hearing for a judicial review filed by former state pathologist Panicos Stavrianos at the Supreme Court began on Wednesday with accusations of conflict of interest against the state legal ...

A fire broke out in Tseri, Nicosia on Wednesday, with four aircraft working to extinguish it, the fire services said. Fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said the blaze burned wild ...

Two of the 103 board members of semi-governmental organisations are being replaced due to conflict of interest, the deputy government spokesman said after a cabinet meeting. Yiannis Antoniou explained that the ...

The government has approved funding for the construction of 703 student residences at the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) in Limassol and Paphos, through a €108 million loan agreement with the European ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved regulations for the management of agricultural plastic waste. In a statement after the meeting, Agricultural Minister Maria Panayiotou said that the subject of the proposed ...

Athens blundered on the Cyprus issue after it emerged on Wednesday that the Greek government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis had mistakenly referred to expectations that a plan for solution to the ...

Without transparency and proper financial analysis, the Great Sea Interconnector risks turning into a bane for Cypriot consumers, the House commerce committee chairman said on Wednesday. Disy MP Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis, ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 35-year-old Russian national under an international warrant issued by the Russian Federation for terrorism-related charges. The arrest occurred on Tuesday, with the United Nations reportedly ...

“As long as the Cyprus problem remains unresolved, Hellenism cannot feel at peace,” Greece’s president Katerina Sakellaropoullou said on Tuesday in an interview with her country’s national broadcaster ...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Nicosia’s food scene is growing. Slowly and perhaps rather unilaterally – most new restaurants, in fact, still pander to ...

A 45-year-old man who shot another man in the head in Ormidia will be tried at a British Bases Court in Dhekelia, it was announced on Wednesday. The suspect, Costas ...

The forestry department on Wednesday announced that the newly leased helicopters of the Republic are now fully operational and ready to be used to combat wildfires. The two Black Hawk ...

The ministry of education on Wednesday filed a complaint with the police over illegal advertising by an upcoming new private school in Paphos. The ministry charged in its complaint that ...