Cyprus

President Nikos Christodoulides set a goal on Friday for the agriculture sector to produce five per cent of Cyprus’ gross domestic product. The sector is currently worth three per cent ...

Cyprus Public Transport (CPT) will operate all school bus routes on Monday, the company announced on Friday, saying it has received all automatic fire-extinguishing systems. The company added that it ...

President Nikos Christodoulides held on Friday evening a telephone conversation with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres focusing on the Cyprus issue, the Turkish violations in the buffer zone as well ...

Parliament on Friday passed a bill requiring employers to provide suitable seating for the thousands of workers currently required to stand for long hours in jobs where they could actually ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday kept mum about his conversation with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis following a visit to Athens by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Speaking after visiting the ...

The attorney-general’s (AG) request to add in a new witness in the inquest over the death of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou was rejected in court on Friday, with the ...

Environmental organisations lambasted the agriculture ministry again on Friday for failing to conduct works properly for Akamas and instead choosing to invite them to visit the site to see the ...

Two exhibitions this month will see artists showcase their work. In Limassol, Morfi Gallery welcomes Ludmila Budanov’s artworks as she presents an ongoing exhibition that will run until December 12. ...

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Reading in the UK on Friday. According to a statement, the decision to award Kyriakides an ...

Cyberattacks against the government pose as the biggest risk to the Cypriot economy, while the mass influx of migrants and deteriorating climate change conditions make up remaining top three risks, ...

A total of 55 families will receive support from Larnaca’s food bank ahead of the Christmas and New Year festivities. There are still more applications pending however, which may see ...

An official complaint has been filed to police on Friday by state health services organisation (Okypy), after a woman complained that a nurse had locked her husband in a hospital ...

President Nikos Christodoulides outlined his plans for the elderly, including plans for a national strategy and a national action plan, on Friday. Christodoulides was addressing the European political conference on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides heralded the bundle of bills voted into law in parliament tackling foreclosures on Friday, saying it marked “a milestone for the fiscal stability and financial outlook of ...

There was yet another delay in the trial of Sefer Bugra Altundag on Friday, who stands accused of murdering 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur. The case had most ...

The competition commissioner’s appointment was deemed legal by an appeals court on Friday, sparing the body a slew of complications. According to a statement by the attorney-general’s office ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met with the Bank of Cyprus Oncology centre’s chairman of the board Christos Triantafyllidis on Friday to discuss solutions to the centre’s financial deficits. The ...

The government will commission a study on how to streamline the state payroll to reflect international and European standards, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Friday, as he discussed the ...

Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc visited the graves of the Turkish Cypriot children who were killed in February’s earthquakes on Friday. The visit to the graves was his first ...

Trade unions to which Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) workers are affiliated are to meet with Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday with the aim of resolving outstanding issues. The ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve), in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, and Industry, and the Cyprus-Austria Business Association, organised a business mission, forum, and networking ...

The defence ministry on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with the American University of Cyprus. At the signing ceremony, ministry undersecretary Andreas Louka described the memorandum as “an important ...

An airport worker in the United Kingdom has lost his job after a man arrived in Cyprus to find the words “c–t stop checking in late” written on his ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres described Cyprus as an important partner, reiterating he will continue to make every effort to find a solution to the Cyprus problem, it emerged on ...