Cyprus

Police on Monday are appealing for information that may help locate Menik Sureka Seelangalage, aged 54, from Sri Lanka, who has been missing since 14 July from her home in Larnaca. The 54...

On Monday temperatures are expected to rise following the weekend’s slight respite, and a yellow weather warning has been issued in place from 11am until 5pm. Temperatures will rise ...

The police leadership has sought to allay fears coming from the union Isotita that officers lives were being put in danger when they are required to accompany migrants back to ...

Agrivoltaics seem to offer the perfect solution to the problem of appropriating farmland for solar parks, but are they a nonstarter in Cyprus? As with everything energy-related, things are not ...

A new yellow alert was issued by the met office on Sunday, warning of high temperatures on Monday. Inland temperatures are expected to rise to 40C. The alert will be ...

A divided Cyprus cannot really heal without a process of reconciliation By Fahri Zihni The 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson wrote “among the calamities of war may be jointly ...

A shrinking expat population and a theatre-going decline in general has impacted membership of the long-established Anglo-Cypriot Theatre company Graham Thomas is a worried man – and it’s not about ...

Cinephiles are in for a treat this August as the Lemesos International Documentary Festival returns for its 18th edition. The annual Limassol festival kicks off on Tuesday at the Lanitis ...

A fire that broke out at 2.24pm in the area of ​​Palaichori was brought under complete control at 5.20pm, the forestry department said on Sunday. The fire burned ​​10 hectares of ...

The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is on an official meeting to the island on Monday to discuss issues of relations between Cyprus and Greece, Turkey, and the EU. ...

Drones have proven extremely useful as a means to help prevent fires, the spokesman of the fire department said on Sunday as he called on the public to become “safety ...

Secularism under threat as summer courses for children offered in mosques “Today, the tyranny of secularism [in the northern part of Cyprus] has matched the tyranny of Greek Cypriots. This ...

After a heatwave of 10 straight days with 40-plus temperatures, we asked people on the streets of Nicosia if the summer heat really is worse now than it was in the ...

An arson attack on a stolen car caused a brush fire that destroyed a hectare of wild vegetation near the old Paphos-Limassol road in the early hours of Sunday, police ...

It is lagging far behind when it comes to environment and sustainability By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The growth of GDP as the main objective of macroeconomic policy is ...

There can be no accepting the Turkish occupation, nor can the current status quo be the future of Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday during a memorial service for ...

With 274 passengers, 60 cars, 15 motorcycles and 11 pets Cyprus-Greece ferry left the island on Saturday night marking its first journey to Piraeus from Larnaca. The popular ferry service was revived last year ...

A pensioner in Limassol who left his bag on a chair at a beachside restaurant in Limassol on Saturday while he went for a swim had his car stolen, police ...

Two people aged 29 and 20 were caught on the Nicosia–Larnaca highway driving at excessive speed, the first at 210 km/h and the second at 194 km/h, police said on Sunday. ...

A large quantity of illegal cigarettes, tobacco and dairy products have been seized from a barber shop in Nicosia, police said on Sunday. The shop owner, aged 73 was arrested, fined ...

Despite the extended heatwave abating somewhat, the forestry department said it would remain on red alert on Sunday due to the danger of fires, calling on the public to exercise ...

Cyprus’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate and inflation rate are expected to reach 3 per cent, respectively, for 2023, consistent with the predictions made in May, according to a report released ...

Six people, three of them children aged 4-6 were injured in an accident off ​Lady’s Mile in Limassol on Saturday afternoon when a banana boat collided with a water ...

But visiting State Department official underlines US support for the island although there is ‘more work to be done’ Cyprus must raise standards across the board if it is to ...