Cyprus News

Average gross monthly earnings in Cyprus rose by 3 per cent year-on-year to €2,548 in the second quarter of 2026, according to provisional figures from the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), although the average ...

Draft plans for a new central prison at Ayios Sozomenos, with room for at least 1,500 inmates, were presented to the House finance committee on Monday by Justice Minister Costas Fitiris, ...

A flower arch was going to cost Andreas €1,000. He and his partner, Stephanie, were planning their wedding in Cyprus when one florist quoted them €5,000. When they decided to remove the ...

The defence ministries of Cyprus and Israel signed an agreement on Monday for a new offshore patrol vessel. Israel Shipyards will build the new ship and Rafael Advanced Defence Systems ...

The government on Monday called for detailed discussions on how to make its Varosha proposal acceptable to the Turkish Cypriot side, rather than focusing on reasons for rejecting it, ahead ...

Police recorded 608 reports against personal mobility device users and cyclists during nationwide checks conducted from 19 to 25 October, police said on Monday. Of the total, 534 concerned mobility device users, mostly e-scooters, ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris informed the House finance committee on Monday that the ministry will resubmit the issue of intercepting telephone conversations to parliament. Fitiris did not clarify as to ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris confirmed to MPs on Monday that Cyprus has accepted a request to invoice Maccabi Tel Aviv for the policing of its home matches, although no game ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris has said juveniles will be held in portacabins next to the central prisons rather than at Menoyia, telling the House finance committee on Monday that the ...

Italian energy company Eni is on Monday set to sign contracts worth $1.8 billion for the construction of the infrastructure which will allow for the natural gas in Cyprus’ Kronos gas ...

A driver was rescued from an overturned vehicle following a traffic collision in Ayios Dhometios, Nicosia, on Sunday evening, police reported on Monday. The fire service received a call at 5.56...

Former health minister George Pamboridis formally submitted his candidacy for Disy’s presidential nomination on Monday, expressing confidence that the party would emerge stronger from the internal election process ahead ...

A 51-year-old monk pleaded not guilty to all charges before the Paphos criminal court on Monday over an alleged attempted murder at Saint Neophytos Monastery in Tala, with the court ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neophytou formally submitted his candidacy for the party’s presidential nomination on Monday, making an emotional appeal to young people, pensioners and small business owners, as ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday stressed that the proposal he had made to Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman to open and repopulate the fenced-off area of Varosha under the United ...

The National Anti-Fraud Co-ordination Service of Cyprus (AFCOS) has launched an awareness campaign encouraging the public to report suspected fraud and irregularities involving European Union funding, as part of efforts ...

Emirati diplomat Lana Nusseibeh has thanked Cyprus and Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos for his and its support for her campaign to be named the United Nations’ new secretary-general when incumbent ...

Restoration work on the coastal cycle path along Aphrodite Avenue in the Paphos district village of Yeroskipou began on Monday. The Ierokipia municipality announced that the contract is worth €108,452.50 plus ...

Eleven individuals were arrested during overnight operations on Sunday, the police reported on Monday. The arrests were made for various offences, including unauthorised residence in Cyprus, carrying a knife, possessing ...

Monday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across most of the island for most of the day, though clouds are expected to gather later in the day. Temperatures ...

Special film screenings and workshops for children are taking place at Pantheon Theatre in Nicosia this fall and winter season, presented by STYX Film Encounters. ‘First Encounters’ is a new ...

The Turkish government has issued a navtex, a message used to transmit information to seaborne vessels, to warn sailors of planned seabed surveys in the waters between its southern coast ...

The United States’ state department has criticised the maritime boundary agreement reached between Turkey and Libya, which was ratified by the Libyan parliament last week, as “unconstructive and provocative”. According ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel was reportedly in Ankara on Monday morning, with his political party the UBP in crisis, two days after holding a primary election to choose ...