Cyprus

The north’s ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz said on Thursday he plans to bring in new restrictions to curb the rate at which third-country nationals are buying property. Speaking to ‘...

A group of guards, who experienced salary reductions of up to €1,200 just before the Christmas season due to incomplete state examinations, asserts the deduction was “unlawful”. Approximately 60 guards, members of ...

The four suspects in the killing of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos will go on trial at the criminal court for premeditated murder on January 23, 2024, the Limassol district court ruled on Thursday. Kalogeropoulos, 55 ...

The House Transport Committee on Thursday discussed the possibility of reducing the time required for driving licence penalty points to expire, with the timeframe possibility set to be reduced from ...

Significant legal and staffing challenges are slowing down the creation of a deputy ministry for migration, which has been deemed an important move for Cyprus given the huge uptick in ...

A man arrested on Tuesday for masturbating outside a primary school in the north did so “as a joke”, he told police. The man, a Pakistani national who was arrested ...

A preliminary version of the EuroAsia Interconnector electricity interconnection project has been sent to the energy ministry and the final text of the study will be sent next week, Energy ...

In an Australian woman fighting for inclusion, PAUL LAMBIS finds someone keen to create a legacy Promoting diversity and inclusion especially among the Greek and Cypriot women of Australia has ...

Stephen Jupp, the new Chief Constable of the British Sovereign Base Areas’ police force was sworn in on Monday at the Episkopi Officer’s Messm the bases announced on Thursday. ...

The Nicosia Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Evel) held its annual general assembly this week, highlighting critical proposals aiming to boost development in the Cypriot capital, improve the quality of ...

Serdar Denktash, the son of late Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, said on Thursday that the north’s ‘government’ “has not done one good thing” during its time in office. “...

Before the festive events truly take over, the island’s cultural agenda is brimming with creative and artistic happenings. Coming up is a new solo art exhibition that will share ...

The European Commission this week projected a significant 30 per cent decrease in Cyprus’ public debt, as a percentage of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), by the end of 2024. This projection ...

Akamas is a national project and not private property and the need for restoration of damages is urgent, Klitos Papastylianou, ex-scientific advisor for the Akamas special environmental assessment said on ...

There has been a total of 831 complaints of violence against women in the north so far this year, according to the Turkish Cypriot police’s Violence against Women Intervention branch. ...

The transport ministry on Thursday announced the purchase of 40 electric vehicles to be used for official government business. They said the vehicles will “meet the needs of various ministries, departments, ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Thursday that he is much more optimistic about reaching an agreement with Chevron over the development of Aphrodite natural gas field. He added that ...

Cypriot MEPs said on Thursday the country had been dragged through the mud during a European Parliament plenary session which discussed the latest revelations by the Cyprus Confidential reports, linking ...

Disy on Thursday slammed the government’s decision not to include provisions for the creation of a National Cancer Institute in the forthcoming budget for the health ministry. “The freezing ...

For the twelfth consecutive year, the Limassol municipality will distribute “Christmas Love Packages” to people in need, and issued a call for those willing to support this effort. “The packages ...

Police in Paphos on Wednesday arrested a 48-year-old permanent resident for a case of circulating forged documents as well as in response to a European arrest warrant pending against him. ...

The third Cyprus-Serbia intergovernmental cooperation summit led by the two countries’ presidents Nikos Christodoulides and Aleksandar Vučić took place on Thursday in Belgrade. Among those attending the summit were ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 29-year-old man for an investigated case of malicious damage to government offices committed over the past few days in the town. He was later remanded ...

In today’s episode, the attorney general dampened hopes for criminal convictions over sanctions evasion on Wednesday, after he told deputies those may be difficult to achieve but pledged there ...