Work begins on new refugee homes
The government’s Ktizo plan, which aims at improving living conditions in refugee estates, is progressing according to schedule, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Tuesday visiting a construction site ...
Seniors to discuss living conditions at Elders’ parliament session
Decent living standards and the problems faced by pensioners in mountainous and other areas were the focus of discussions on Tuesday at a preparatory meeting for the 25th session of ...
NGO to plant 18,000 trees
Aiming to plant a total of 18,000 trees, environmental programme LIFEAgrOassis will launch its campaign on Friday in Pera Orinis.
The goal of the project is to plant the trees and ...
UAE energy giant ‘expresses interest’ in Cyprus gas
United Arab Emirates energy giant Abu Dhabi National Oil Co has expressed interest in Cyprus’ emerging natural gas sector, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou has said.
“They expressed interest in the ...
Cyprus and the future of wellness
I asked ChatGPT what wellness is. It gave me a well-rounded answer about nurturing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Not bad, but what does ChatGPT know about wellness? It ...
Minister visits flood-affected banana plantations
Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Tuesday visited flood-affected banana plantations near the Paphos district village of Kissonerga.
During her visit, she confirmed that the first estimations regarding the cost of ...
Reform must succeed to ‘improve peoples’ lives’
Local authority reform must succeed for the good of municipalities and their residents, Disy leader Annita Demetriou and Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos agreed on Tuesday.
They discussed challenges surrounding local ...
north political crisis
Opposition ‘illegally occupying’ north ‘parliament’
Opposition ‘MPs’ are “illegally occupying” the north’s ‘parliament’, ruling coalition party UBP ‘MP’ Ziya Ozturkler said on Tuesday, continuing to insist that he has been elected as ‘speaker’.
Speaking ...
Agriculture ministry committed to promoting high-quality products
Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Tuesday underlined the government’s commitment to producing high-quality products, reducing production costs and safeguarding public health and the environment.
Highlighting the challenges facing the ...
Restoration work begins at Avdimou mosque
Restoration work at the mosque in the Limassol district village of Avdimou has begun, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Ali Tuncay announced on Monday night.
Avdimou was inhabited ...
Fears of underreporting in delivery driver attacks, union says
Deok union expressed its fury on Tuesday over the spate of racist attacks against delivery drivers primarily in Limassol.
These attacks “trample on human and labour rights”.
The union specified ...
Employers’ organisation condemns concrete workers’ strike
The Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV) and the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Tuesday condemned the indefinite strike by workers in the concrete industry.
The strike started ...
Woman who boiled cheating husband’s scrotum back in court
The woman who was arrested for pouring boiling water on her husband’s scrotum appeared in court in Trikomo on Monday, while her husband remains in hospital.
In court, police ...
Foreign student attacked and robbed in Limassol
A 24-year-old man was robbed on Monday night in Limassol, with the perpetrators stealing his motorcycle.
According to a complaint filed by the victim, an Indian student residing in Cyprus, ...
Man arrested in connection to jewellery store burglary
Police in Larnaca arrested a man on Monday as part of an investigation into a jewellery store burglary and theft
According to a police statement, a 36-year-old man was taken ...
Investigations ongoing after fatal plant fire in Dromolaxia
Investigations into the fire that broke out last Sunday morning at a polyurethane manufacturing plant in Dromolaxia will continue on Tuesday.
The body of a 63-year-old electrician who died in ...
Police arrest third person in sham marriage case
As part of an investigation into an alleged sham marriage case, police arrested a 25-year-old man on Monday.
A police statement released on Tuesday said that the man was taken ...
Winston now keeps babies company at Dhekelia cemetery
Hundreds of babies laid to rest at Dhekelia military cemetery, who died in the 1950s and 60s, now have Winston to look over them.
A statue of Winston the bear ...
Deadlock over Cyprob should end, Akel says in meeting with Greek PM
Akel’s general secretary Stefanos Stefanou met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis in Athens on Monday, with the Cyprus problem being top of the ...
Prostate cancer most common cancer in men – Pasykaf
Prostate cancer is the first most common cancer in men and the second most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer) in men in Cyprus, the association of cancer ...
Man remanded for theft
A 28-year-old man has been remanded in Ayia Napa for eight days in an ongoing burglary case.
Famagusta police said the theft took place on October 31 in Ayia Napa when ...
Unhealthy non-EU citizens in Cyprus
For 2023, just over 10 per cent of non-EU citizens aged 65 and over living in Cyprus perceived themselves to be in bad or very bad state of health, according to a Eurostat ...
Union demands sacked audit chief gets all his pension
The civil servants’ main union on Monday came to the defence of former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, urging authorities to immediately pay the ex-official all his pension dues.
“Regardless of the ...
Measures to deal with ‘alarming demographic problem’
President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday announced a €50 million tranche of measures aimed at tackling the “national challenge” Cyprus is facing with its ‘alarming demographic problem’, where fertility rates have dropped ...