A comprehensive overview of current news in Cyprus, covering everything from local events and political developments to social issues and community highlights
In today’s episode, the government on Tuesday hinted it may extend some of the relief measures it introduced last November – such as subsidising electricity bills – beyond the end of ...
Celebrating love and the majestic world of dance is an upcoming event that returns to Cyprus to enrich the local cultural calendar. Back again this February is the Celebrity Ballet ...
Police on Tuesday arrested three women, aged 39, 53 and 60 for the offenses of illegal stay in the Republic, illegal employment, forgery, impersonation and securing registration by false representation.
The women were ...
Police in Paphos on Tuesday arrested a woman for an investigated case of possession of stolen property while her husband is wanted for burglary and theft.
According to the police, ...
Wednesday will be partly cloudy with a chance of isolated light rain in the west and the north. Temperatures will rise to 20C in the interior, and on the southeast ...
The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Tuesday announced a state-of-the-art online course through its I-STARS (Innovative Strategies, Training, and Resources for Sustainability) project.
According to the announcement, ...
Kato Drys an experiment in experience tourism
By Martin Clark
More than 30 years ago the then CTO (Cyprus Tourism Organisation) realised that Cyprus could not always compete with likes of ...
European Parliament Member (MEP) Costas Mavrides on Tuesday reached out to the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy to Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin on behalf of civil society groups who have ...
The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) has decided not to pursue its request for a 25 per cent hike in their tariff, following a meeting with Energy Minister George Papanastasiou.
Reports ...
Work is underway to iron out the kinks in the e-justice platform to get it back online after the system came crashing down last month, the government said on Tuesday.
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The UN Special Rapporteur for Environment Defenders Michel Forst has called on Cyprus to lead a group of countries in promoting the Aarhus Convention.
Adopted in June 1998, the Aarhus Convention ...
Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou reiterated the government’s goal of safeguarding halloumi exports, adding that the protection of halloumi as a national product remains unchanged during a meeting with the ...
Rents on commercial Turkish Cypriot properties in Limassol have sharply increased, the House refugee committee heard on Tuesday.
Rent increases from €150 to €2,800 a month and in another case from €30 to €999 ...
Education Minister Athena Michaelidou made it clear she would not tolerate “tactics of the past” on Tuesday as teaching union Oelmek threatened it would take measures.
Speaking to state broadcaster ...
By Andria Kades and Jonathan Shkurko
In what appears to be a path towards agreement, the state health services (Okypy) and trade unions representing public hospital workers made progress on ...
Two people, aged 23 and 22, were sentenced to four years in prison by the Famagusta district court on Tuesday after being found guilty of charges related to illegal drug possession, intent ...
The Nicosia International Festival, which is part of the capital city’s bid for the European Capital of Culture 2030, remains true to its long-term strategy of showcasing Cypriot creators alongside ...
First Lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides and Education Minister Athena Michaelidou cooked healthy meals for children at the Elenion primary school on Tuesday.
The pair used ingredients sourced from the garden ...
The government on Tuesday hinted it may extend some of the relief measures it introduced last November – such as subsidising electricity bills – beyond the end of the month.
Taking journalists’ ...
Lives were put at risk by the severe weather seen in the north last week, deputy mayor of Kormakitis Valentinos Koumettos told MPs on Tuesday.
The weather last Tuesday night ...
Famagusta Mayor Simos Ioannou has requested a meeting with the UN Secretary-General’s envoy Maria Holguin, filing his request with President Nikos Christodoulides, who he met earlier on Tuesday.
Ioannou ...
British High Commissioner in Nicosia Irfan Siddiq was on Tuesday summoned to the foreign ministry to be served with a demarche, following comments made in a newspaper interview, government spokesman ...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday expressed Greece’s support to restart Cyprus problem talks on the basis of a bizonal, bicommunal federation.
He was speaking after meeting the ...
The government aims for all new cars bought in Cyprus to be electric by 2035, spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday.
He said the current target entails 25 per cent of new ...