Cyprus

The north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek) on Tuesday night walked back plans to increase electricity tariffs by nearly a third, having announced the price hikes just hours earlier. The latest ...

The goal is to find common ground between both sides to reach an agreement on collective labour agreements for employees at the hospitals, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Tuesday. ...

THEO PANAYIDES listens to the remarkable story of a Limassol-based social media star who channelled his need for control into creativity and blurs the lines between gender fluidity and trolling ...

Is it the season of art exhibitions? It certainly seems so as two more open in Nicosia, while Larnaca is preparing to welcome an exhibition in mid November. At Alpha ...

The art exhibitions just keep on coming. As we step further into the autumn season, more and more are added to the cultural agenda. This month, new ones open in ...

In today’s episode, a proposal to establish a humanitarian aid corridor from Cyprus to Gaza was “received positively” by Israel, President Nikos Christodoulides said. Elsewhere, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas Further measures will be taken by police, following two high-profile Cyprus gangland murders almost 36 hours apart, police said after a meeting on Wednesday. The ...

The UN assistant Secretary General for peace operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, is in Cyprus on Wednesday for a three-day visit. He is expected to hold separate meetings with President Nikos Christodoulides ...

HELLENiQ ENERGY, formerly known as Hellenic Petroleum, on Tuesday announced the acquisition of six solar parks in Cyprus with a total capacity of 26 MW. According to the announcement, this strategic ...

Cyprus has been selected to host the International Conference and General Assembly of the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association (WISTA International) in 2024, with the event set to take ...

Tourism, leisure industries impact Natura 2000 areas By Maria Ladommatou Cyprus is part of the Natura 2000 network, which entails 62 marine and terrestrial conservation areas across the Republic of Cyprus up to ...

The president of the Paphos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Evep) George Mais this week emphasised the necessity of accelerating actions and efforts related to the digital transformation and other ...

Wednesday will be partly cloudy with isolated rains or storms expected, mainly in the mountains and the east. Temperatures will rise to 31C inland, 30C on the coast, and 21C ...

All traffic cameras currently installed have passed the piloting phase and are in full operation, while a second phase is underway that will see the installation of 66 additional cameras, head ...

The new judge on the case of the national guardsmen, Thanasis Nicolaou, suspected to have been murdered in 2005, said on Tuesday that she intends to have a speedy trial for ...

Trade unions agreed with the finance ministry on measures to deal with the issues of low-paid civil servants, representatives from the unions Peo, Sek, and Pasydy said on Tuesday. The ...

Police are investigating an attempted murder in Nicosia on Tuesday, after a man well known to authorities was shot in his home in Acropolis. According to police, Alexis Mavromichalis, aka ...

A protest was held in Nicosia on Tuesday in support of Palestine, calling the government complicit for only denouncing Hamas attack, while the crisis continues. “Beyond grief for the dead, ...

Long-term conflict in the Middle East could delay projects for the development of natural gas fields, experts said on Tuesday as others postulated that in the three to four years ...

By Iole Damaskinos, Nick Theodoulou, Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver Cyprus’ proposal for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to the Gaza strip is being received positively, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Two whole weeks are dedicated to the German language this month as the Embassies of Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus have prepared a packed agenda with events for ...

Over 40 per cent of registered employees in the north are third country nationals, ‘labour minister’ Sadik Gardiyanoglu said on Tuesday. He said that as of August, there are 116,970 people registered ...

A contract was signed on Tuesday for the demolition of five condemned apartment blocks in the refugee estates in Latsia. They will be demolished within the scope of the government’...

Larnaca District Court issued a €6,000 fine on Tuesday after the fatal injury of a man at work. According to the labour inspection department, Cablenet Communications Systems Ltd was fined after ...