Cyprus

A wooden boat with 54 irregular migrants on board was intercepted by police seven nautical miles off the coast of Cape Greco on Saturday. Of the 54, 13 were children, seven of whom ...

The government is set to allocate €595,000 in European Union funding for the Cypriot winemaking sector at the end of January, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Saturday. Speaking at the ...

Prehistoric poo is set to be among the topics to be discussed at the Palloures excavation winter symposium. The (faecal) matter will, among other subjects, be discussed at the online ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that each country should “run much faster” to halt climate change. Christodoulides is in Dubai for the United Nations’ COP28 summit, and added that ...

The idea that the police, at the expense of taxpayers’ money, is under obligation to undertake the parental care of the president’s children is “a warped view”, the audit ...

A 37-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Friday after allegedly illegally entering and using Turkish Cypriot property in the town. Paphos police chief Michalis Nikolaou told the Cyprus News ...

Police in Paphos seized nine computers on Friday evening as part of a crackdown on illegal electronic gambling. The devices were found alongside two modems and two cameras during a ...

A 33-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Friday evening after being found to be in possession of a kilogram and a half of cannabis. Police attempted to pull the ...

The foreign ministry is to temporarily move to the former Laiki Bank head quarter in Strovolos, according to reports. Subject to final approval from the Strovolos municipality, the government is ...

The woman who’s forcing the island’s medical professionals to actually listen “In Cyprus, doctors are akin to God,” says Kathy Kattashis. “You trust them, you never question them. ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Friday announced that, in partnership with the Faculty of Economics and Management (FEM) at the University of Cyprus, it recently organised an ...

The Business Turnover Index in Cyprus displayed mixed trends across sectors in the third quarter of 2023 when compared to the corresponding period of the previous year, according to a report ...

A raft of environmental groups sent an open letter to Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos on Friday, demanding a meeting with him to discuss the currently frozen road construction works in ...

The drafting of legislation concerning the spread of fake news was top of the agenda as Justice Minister Anna Procopiou and House President Annita Demetriou met on Friday. The pair ...

The north’s ‘state’ budget for 2024 passed through the ‘parliamentary’ finance committee stage on Friday evening with the votes of the majority of the committee’s members. The budget foresees ...

The Larnaca Criminal Court on Friday imposed a nine-year prison sentence on a 34-year-old man after finding him guilty of sexually abusing his partner’s daughter. According to media reports, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the COP28 Summit, taking place in Dubai. According to government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis, the two discussed the ...

Cyprus has initiated discussions with countries participating in a regional climate change initiative to create projects and undertake measures to address the effects of climate change, President Nikos Christodoulides said ...

A fourteen-fold increase in civil service positions from what was initially projected has been provided for in the 2024 state budget, the bulk of which are teachers, it emerged on Friday. ...

The Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in Famagusta apologised to a student after erroneously opening disciplinary proceedings for a student for “kissing his girlfriend” on Friday. The university’s rector’s ...

The government and Chevron have agreed on the terms for developing the ‘Aphrodite’ gas field in block 12 of Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the energy ministry announced on Friday. Negotiations ...

Transport and Energy Ministers Alexis Vafeades and George Papanastasiou on Friday inaugurated the road network of the Vasilikos energy and industrial area, built at a cost of €16.7 million. Vafeades hailed ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis on Friday said that tourist arrivals from Poland are expected to exceed 300,000 in 2024, after having conducted a number of meetings with tourism stakeholders in ...

Southeastern Mediterranean countries, including Cyprus, “can pioneer the hydrogen economy”, Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (Cera) chairman Andreas Poullikkas said. Poullikkas was speaking at a conference on the subject of energy ...