Cyprus News

The general health system (Gesy) is financially robust and projected to remain solvent at least through to the year 2031, an official asserted on Monday. Angelos Tropis, a senior official with ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Monday submitted his candidacy to retain leadership of his party the UBP, promising “stability” should he win the forthcoming party leadership election. ...

Cabinet on Monday submitted six amended bills to parliament on fire prevention for forests and the countryside, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said. Panayiotou said that some general elements included in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was not “invited” to a tripartite meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on August 13 but “sounded out” over such a ...

Cyprus’ hunters have joined voices of opposition to a proposed photovoltaic park in a forest area between a cluster of villages in the Nicosia district. The Cyprus Federation of Hunting ...

The administrative court rejected an appeal by the Famagusta bishopric seeking to continue the construction of a monastery in Natura 2000 area of Cape Greco, it was reported on Monday. The ...

“Cyprus is completely surreal – a weird, fantastical dream!” We often think of surrealism in art: Dali’s melting clocks and Magritte’s Son of Man, where the familiar meets the ...

The transfer of Israeli citizens via ships from Cyprus into Israel is not part of the ‘Estia’ plan, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. His statement came after Israeli ...

The new Turkish ambassador in the north Yasin Ekrem Serim has taken out a court order to demand that three news outlets in the north delete articles which were written ...

Limassol bus company, Emel, on Monday is looking to file a complaint with police and take legal action against the municipality, who they said suddenly demolished a structure without warning ...

Dogs are to be stationed in the departure lounge at Larnaca airport with the aim of both calming nervous flyers and encouraging adoptions from dog shelters, Cyprus’ airports’ operator Hermes ...

Doctors working at public hospitals did not turn up to a meeting which would have aimed to distribute performance-based bonuses paid by the state health services (Okypy). Okypy had a ...

A total of three people were arrested for living in Cyprus illegally during police raids which took place between Friday and Sunday morning. The arrests were made as part of ...

Rubbish weighing 1.2 tonnes was collected from the harbour in front of Paphos castle on Sunday, among which old tyres, iron and even an armchair were found. In just one hour, 12 ...

A seven-year-old girl died at Makarios hospital in Nicosia on Monday after an incident in a pool in Protaras on Sunday. The girl had been found unconscious in the pool ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested in Limassol, driving over twice the speed limit, police said on Monday. The man was spotted at around 1.35am on Monday driving at 192km per ...

Police fined a 50-year-old man with €1,000 for transporting cigarettes from the north, it emerged on Monday. The man was found on Sunday night in Kissonerga, Paphos. Police found 11 cigarette boxes ...

British Cypriot member of the House of Lords Baroness Meral Hussein-Ece said a bicycle filled with dog excrement was left outside her cousin’s home on Sunday as far-right riots ...

Far-right British fugitive Tommy Robinson is currently on holiday in Cyprus, staying at a holiday village near Cape Greco. Robinson, a former member of the fascist British National Party and ...

The newly formed municipality of East Paphos has requested its name be officially changed to Municipality of Ierokipia, it emerged on Monday. “We want to preserve the historical identity of ...

The first phase of the Nicosia ring road is to set be officially completed and handed over on Thursday, the public works department said on Monday. Deputy director of the ...

Police in Paphos over the weekend arrested of a 33-year-old man for threatening and assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. According ...

The Paphos district court on Saturday issued a five-day remand for a 45-year-old woman for a case of theft of thousands of euros worth from a department store in Paphos. ...

Monday will be mostly clear with some low clouds on the coasts and a chance of brief afternoon showers in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 38C in the interior, 32...