Cyprus

Cyprus police on Saturday released a statement urging the public to be cautious about a new type of telephone scam through WhatsApp, in which malicious parties impersonate police officers. Specifically, ...

The Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation, and Digital Policy has set its sights on positioning Cyprus as a dominant force in research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and high technology. In an ambitious ...

What is the one thing that unifies Cypriots around the world? Alix Norman meets two extraordinary young women who think they have the answer Ask 100 people what constitutes their ‘Cypriotness’, ...

The recent 8th Greek Raw Materials Community Dialogue in Athens placed a spotlight on the Critical Raw Materials Act and its potential to fortify technological advancement and green energy production. ...

Aristos Philis, a Limassol native, stands at the helm of Lemissoler Navigation Company’s Strategic Development department while simultaneously holding the positions of CEO and co-founder at KeelX. Philis is ...

President of the Cyprus Ports Authority Antonis Stylianou this week underlined the impact of green transition processes within ports, describing the authority’s actions as exemplary practices. This discussion took ...

‘Last year we had more than 200,000 visitors in the 50-something days we were open,’ says tiny Fikardou With the sun still shining in Cyprus, it may not feel like Christmas ...

Dates were set on Friday for the testimony of witnesses in the investigation of the death of National Guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in ...

Forty-two more third country nationals residing illegally on the island have been repatriated as part of a new operation by the aliens and immigration service, police said on Friday. During ...

Limassol police on Friday said a sixth arrest has been made in relation to the incidents of hooliganism that took place last week. The incident involving over one hundred hooded ...

Kapnos Airprot Shuttle on Friday announced its route schedule for the Christmas period for rides to and from Larnaca and Paphos airports. The shuttle operator said that this year’s ...

Violence against women is one of the most widespread human rights violations in the world with statistics that show it as a pandemic, the advisory committee for the prevention and ...

The mortgage to rent (MtR) scheme for vulnerable lenders will come into effect on December 4, finance ministry permanent secretary George Panteli said on Friday, presenting the scheme at a press ...

Human rights commissioner Maria Stylianou-Lottides on Friday called on the education ministry to find permanent solutions to ensure the stable and uninterrupted provision of sign language interpretation services for deaf ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Iole Damaskinos Former president Nicos Anastasiades on Friday expressed his satisfaction with the announcement that the anti-corruption authority is looking into allegations made in the book ‘...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar hit back on Friday after teachers protested his presence at an event to mark the north’s Teachers’ Day on Friday. Tatar attended a customary ...

A Greek Cypriot appeared in court in the north on Friday after having been arrested by Turkish Cypriot police at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point with 10 grammes of cocaine in ...

Five people appeared in court in the north on Friday after a motorcycle heist in Limassol in the early hours of the previous morning. The five, aged between 19 and 23, were ...

A fire engine rolled over onto its side in Bogazi, near Dikomo, on Friday. It overturned at around 10:45am on the way back to the local fire station from a ...

The Cyprus Architects’ Association on Friday called for an immediate re-evaluation of the construction being carried out in the Akamas area. They added that the competent ministries and all parties ...

The audit office on Friday said it had received the updated bills from parliament regarding changes to regulations on public officials receiving multiple pensions. In their proposal submitted at the ...

Around 300 of the 700 children at the Bekirpasha high school in Trikomo “do not speak Turkish as their first language”, according to local ‘MP’ Biray Hamzaogullari. Hamzaogullari, who belongs to opposition ...

Cyprus will face a shortage of doctors and nurses in five years, a capacity planning study from the health ministry showed, as most registered doctors are over the age of 41. ...

In a groundbreaking development reflecting the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) commitment to gender equality, Despina Theodosiou, a notable figure in the Cypriot shipping industry, has been honoured with the ...