Cyprus

A man who attempted to burgle a house before falling asleep drunk on his victim’s kitchen floor was sentenced to three and a half years in jail on Wednesday. ...

OPAP Cyprus announced the departure of its Chief Executive Officer, Dimitris Aletraris, effective as of January 16, 2024. Management duties in the gaming company will be performed by Alexandros Davos, Chief Commercial ...

Hotels and leisure centres that usually close during the off-season can now stay open and provide training for their employees, thanks to a new government plan. This programme covers two ...

Attorney-general George Savvides strongly condemned Tuesday night’s attack on a public prosecutor’s car, which also prompted her colleagues to go on a work stoppage on Wednesday. The incident ...

A batch of the antiviral Covid-19 drug Paxlovid will be “immediately” shipped to Cyprus from Greece, the health ministry said on Wednesday. A separate batch had been due to arrive ...

The UK’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron appeared to have sunk Cyprus’ maritime humanitarian corridor ambitions, after he told the House of Lords “the best way to get aid into ...

The north’s Communicable Diseases Committee on Wednesday reinstated the mandatory wearing of face masks in some locations. People visiting care homes, hospitals and prisons, as well as care home ...

Advertising hoardings were removed from the Alagadi area on Wednesday. Alagadi beach is famous island wide as a landing and hatching beach for sea turtles, and the area had been ...

The 35-year-old woman who crashed her car into a police car as they attempted to arrest her was still on the run on Wednesday. Police fired shots at the car’...

The labour ministry on Wednesday clarified that asylum seekers are no longer permitted to work within the first nine months of their arrival. The Cyprus chamber of commerce (Keve) had ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday stressed the need for Cyprus to play a more central role within the EU during the swearing-in ceremony for President swears in deputy minister for ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved legislation to implement the European Blue Card scheme in Cyprus. The scheme, touted as Europe’s answer to the United States’ green card, aims to encourage ...

ELENI PHILIPPOU meets a group of mostly middle aged men who will play live this week proving it is never too late to embrace your passion What do an engineer, ...

The two men accused of murdering 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city were on Wednesday jailed for three months pending their trial. In court, it was once again ...

The village of Louroujina currently has no ambulance service coverage, the north’s former ‘health minister’ Filiz Besim said on Wednesday. Besim said that due to the closure of the ...

THEO PANAYIDES meets an ultra runner with a warrior’s tenacity in search of a hippy’s sense of freedom, a man who finds freedom when moving through nature Some ...

The ministry of foreign affairs and the civil defence announced on Wednesday that Cyprus has sent humanitarian aid to the people of Armenia. “Cyprus could not remain uninvolved […] after the ...

In today’s episode, a Turkish Cypriot lawyer arrested in Italy over selling property in the north filed an objection to Cyprus’ extradition request on Tuesday, arguing the central prisons ...

January is known for bringing the blues, and not the foot-tapping kind. Here to keep islanders entertained and uplifted, however, is a series of live music performances around the island ...

Police on Wednesday are continuing investigations into the shooting in Aglandjia, while the 49-year-old victim of what is seen as an attempted murder, travelled abroad without giving a police statement. ...

A firecracker thrown from the stands hit a player and resulted in the cancellation of a match, it emerged on Wednesday. Police spokesman Christos Andreou told state media that CCTV ...

Deputy Minister of Shipping Marina Hadjimanoli, is leaving for Miami on Wednesday at the invitation of the Royal Caribbean company, one of the largest groups in the world active in ...

Wednesday will be partly cloudy with local showers or an isolated thunderstorm expected. In the late afternoon the weather is expected to clear up. Temperatures will rise to 18C in ...

Nearly time to breed: the ‘LIFE with Vultures’ project is slowly gaining ground The first days of the New Year bring hope in a rather odd form: a lighter shade ...