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Restoration work at the mosque in the Limassol district village of Avdimou has begun, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Ali Tuncay announced on Monday night. Avdimou was inhabited ...

Deok union expressed its fury on Tuesday over the spate of racist attacks against delivery drivers primarily in Limassol. These attacks “trample on human and labour rights”. The union specified ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV) and the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Tuesday condemned the indefinite strike by workers in the concrete industry. The strike started ...

The woman who was arrested for pouring boiling water on her husband’s scrotum appeared in court in Trikomo on Monday, while her husband remains in hospital. In court, police ...

A 24-year-old man was robbed on Monday night in Limassol, with the perpetrators stealing his motorcycle. According to a complaint filed by the victim, an Indian student residing in Cyprus, ...

Police in Larnaca arrested a man on Monday as part of an investigation into a jewellery store burglary and theft According to a police statement, a 36-year-old man was taken ...

Investigations into the fire that broke out last Sunday morning at a polyurethane manufacturing plant in Dromolaxia will continue on Tuesday. The body of a 63-year-old electrician who died in ...

As part of an investigation into an alleged sham marriage case, police arrested a 25-year-old man on Monday. A police statement released on Tuesday said that the man was taken ...

Hundreds of babies laid to rest at Dhekelia military cemetery, who died in the 1950s and 60s, now have Winston to look over them. A statue of Winston the bear ...

Akel’s general secretary Stefanos Stefanou met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis in Athens on Monday, with the Cyprus problem being top of the ...

Prostate cancer is the first most common cancer in men and the second most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer) in men in Cyprus, the association of cancer ...

A 28-year-old man has been remanded in Ayia Napa for eight days in an ongoing burglary case. Famagusta police said the theft took place on October 31 in Ayia Napa when ...

For 2023, just over 10 per cent of non-EU citizens aged 65 and over living in Cyprus perceived themselves to be in bad or very bad state of health, according to a Eurostat ...

The civil servants’ main union on Monday came to the defence of former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, urging authorities to immediately pay the ex-official all his pension dues. “Regardless of the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday announced a €50 million tranche of measures aimed at tackling the “national challenge” Cyprus is facing with its ‘alarming demographic problem’, where fertility rates have dropped ...

A business association urged parliament on Monday to quickly pass an EU regulation that has to do with the screening of direct foreign investment in Cyprus, noting that the island ...

An action plan to ensure state health services (Okypy) are autonomous by 2026 will be submitted to Cabinet imminently, aiming to increase Okypy’s income and reduce its expenses. The projected ...

Health Minister Michalis Damianos expressed his concern on Monday over the risks of an oligopoly in the health sector, as private hospitals are being bought up by a limited number ...

The Ayios Dhometios gymnasium in Nicosia on Monday announced that it will undertake a pilot programme of “optional” all-day lessons. The programme was announced following a cabinet decision and will ...

The Cyprus Confederation of Disability Organisations (Kysoa) on Monday called for an end to the annual Radiomarathon fundraiser for children with special needs, saying its “paternalistic” messaging is “stuck in ...

The body of the 63-year-old electrician who died in a fire at a polyurethane manufacturing plant in Dromolaxia’s industrial area was recovered on Monday around 3pm. The man has ...

The Christmas village at Laiki Yitonia in Nicosia’s old city is reopening this year after a successful run last year. The Christmas village at Laiki Yitonia is open from ...

This year, almost half the world will vote! Cyprus won’t: our presidential elections took place last year. But 28 other nations will. And together, their citizens make up 50 per cent ...

The fifth week of the north’s political crisis began on Monday with opposition ‘MPs’ attempting to open ‘parliament’ under the authority of ‘deputy speaker’ Fazilet Ozdenefe. Ozdenefe, who belongs ...