Cyprus

A 29-year-old woman was sentenced to two years in prison in the north on Wednesday for stealing 700TL (€22.41). The woman, named Kadriye Denise Surucu, had a previous criminal record, having ...

The justice ministry irked the parliamentary legal affairs committee on Wednesday, after it failed to submit to deputies a revised bill on modernising the prisons, so as to comply with ...

Cypriot children displayed below average competencies in the 2022 report of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa). Pisa surveys 15-year-old children in mathematics, reading and science, and grades them based ...

Free mouth cancer examinations are being offered across Cyprus on Friday, as part of a campaign to raise awareness of oral cancer. The campaign is organised by the health ministry’...

Cyprus tops the list of EU countries taking antibiotics, with one in two people taking them yearly, the head of the Cyprus Pathology Company Andreas Stylianou said on Wednesday. Stylianou ...

Only half of Cypriots intend to vote in June’s European Parliament elections in 2024, according to data collected by the Eurobarometer published on Wednesday. Cypriots are the least likely of ...

By Dr Denise Alexandrou* The Clinical Laboratories of Nicosia General Hospital, under the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy), offer a comprehensive range of laboratory tests (haematological, biochemical, immunological etc.). Concurrently, ...

Environmental organisations sought to hold authorities, including the agriculture and environment minister, to a strict accounting over the Akamas roadworks on Wednesday and demanded a substantive response. Speaking on CyBC, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is scheduled to meet the representatives of the Independent Power Transmission Operator (ADMIE) over the Euro-Asia Interconnector on Thursday. He will be accompanied by Energy Minister George ...

Discussions regarding low-wage civil servants’ pay continued on Wednesday, with unions and the government exchanging views. The meetings were, as is custom, attended by representatives of three trade unions – Sek, ...

British Defence Minister Grant Shapps is travelling to Cyprus on Wednesday to meet with officials and staff at the United Kingdom’s British bases. Shapps’ trip to Cyprus is part ...

The Cyprus Committee of Financial Literacy and Education convened for the first time at the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Tuesday, December 5, according to a statement released on Wednesday. ...

Cypriot firm Ask Wire, a real estate data analytics company, which has provided its services to the Cyprus government, systemic banks, insurance companies and investors, this week announced that it ...

Two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’, Oguzhan Hasipoglu of ruling party the UBP and Armagan Candan of opposition the CTP, were in Paris on Wednesday for committee meetings of the European Council ...

The Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) on Thursday announced that, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth, is organising this year’s Cyprus Olympiad in Informatics, for Secondary ...

Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos left for Slovenia on Wednesday for a meeting of contracting parties to the Barcelona Convention. The Barcelona Convention aims to protect the marine environment and the ...

The government is to create electronic health files for all citizens as part of its creation of a “National electronic health bank”, it emerged on Wednesday. The move was announced ...

National flag carrier Cyprus Airways on Wednesday announced the launch of direct flights between Larnaca and Brussels International Airport, in what is being described as a significant move to boost ...

The sale of alcohol to minors or the consumption thereof by minors is illegal, Law Commissioner Louiza Zannetou said on Wednesday. Zannetou was speaking during a round table discussion organised ...

Always on the lookout for a new dining experience, I was pleased to see somewhere new on the scene whilst going for a stroll one day through town. There was ...

The government on Wednesday gave its consent for the individual pegged by the UN secretary-general to be his envoy in Cyprus, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said, with the individual’s ...

Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Wednesday that he expected bus companies to inform him about when fire extinguishing equipment for their vehicles will arrive. On Tuesday, he said that a ...

Members of the human trafficking police unit in collaboration with the labour ministry’s inspection unit are investigating a 40-year-old farm owner in the Nicosia district accused of illegally employing ...

Professor and activist Hubert Faustmann tells people what they don’t want to hear on Israel-Gaza, Russia-Ukraine – and the Cyprus problem. As he tells THEO PANAYIDES, he works best when ...