Cyprus

Cyprus’ annual inflation rate in May decreased to 3.01 per cent, continuing its downward trend for the seventh consecutive month, mainly driven by a deceleration in the prices of petroleum products. ...

The new public service post of the former prison director Anna Aristotelous will be announced next week, Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Thursday. Aristotelous is transferring to “an important ...

Parliament on Thursday voted through legislation prohibiting the gathering, transport and trade in unripe carobs. The bill, tabled by Disy MP Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis, passed with 31 votes for, one against. It ...

Cypriot MPs and visiting parliamentarians from Germany on Thursday discussed the beefing up of cooperation between the two nations’ armed forces, and the replacement of the Republic’s weapons systems. ...

A 60-year-old man drowned on Thursday while scuba diving in Paralimni, the police said. The deceased was identified as Axel Schoeller, aged 60, an Austrian national and permanent resident of Paralimni. ...

Former spy boss Tasos Tzionis has been brought out of retirement to head up the Central Intelligence Service (KYP) once again, it emerged on Thursday. Tzionis, 68, had previously served as ...

Preparations are underway in Paphos on Thursday for the four-day Kataklysmos festivities. The traditional annual celebration of the Flood will take place from Friday, June 2 through June 5, in the Kato ...

Gal Luft, the Israeli professor who skipped bail in Cyprus while facing extradition to the United States where he is wanted for arms trafficking, has resurfaced, telling the New York ...

This summer, village theatres and squares around Cyprus will continue to resound with the sounds of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra as another edition of its Community Outreach Concerts takes place. ...

Volunteers collected 680 kilos of rubbish along the Dasoudi beachfront as part of the underwater and beach cleanliness campaign in Limassol. The clean-up was organised by the Coastal Studies and Research ...

A group representing the Ukrainian community in Cyprus on Thursday boldly urged the president and authorities on the island to crack-down and shutdown any pro-Russia support and rallies organised on ...

Disy MP Averof Neophytou is seeking to lower the voting age to 17 and argued that now is the right time to do so. In a statement on Thursday, Neophytou reasoned ...

Maintaining a stable and secure environment in the Eastern Mediterranean remains of the utmost strategic importance, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday, participating in the proceedings of the 2nd European ...

Three gas turbines for Power Energy Cyprus (PEC), the first private conventional power plant, have arrived in Cyprus and are currently being installed, Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported on Thursday. ...

Cyprus’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first quarter of the year amounted to €6.2 billion, marking a 3.4 per cent increase on an annual basis when measured in volume and adjusted ...

The European Commission on Thursday called on Cyprus to comply with the EU VAT rules for dwellings. The Commission decided to send a reasoned opinion to Cyprus for its failure ...

Featuring 15 large-scale paintings, Cypriot artist Zenon Jepras’ latest solo show Last Orders opens on Thursday. Hosted at Alpha CK Art Gallery, the exhibition will run for 10 days and explores the ...

Paphos is full of hotels but few have the charm and local Cyprus flavour of the Almyra finds PAUL LAMBIS There’s a new level of sophistication that emerges when ...

No violation of the code of conduct for members of the parliament has been found on Thursday in the case of Independent MP Andreas Themistocleous’ abusive social media remarks against ...

Eurobank Cyprus this week said that its five-year support programme for non-profit organisation Cyprus Seeds, which aims to bolster the island’s entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem, has borne fruit, with ...

Covid-19 prevented the adoption of quality checks within the national health scheme, an issue the new government plans to tackle, Health Minister Dr Popi Kanari said on Thursday. There is ...

Port management company DP World Limassol on Thursday released a statement announcing that Simon Pitout has been appointed as the company’s new chief executive officer, effective from June 1, 2023. The ...

Former Kiti bishop Chrysostomos was handed a 12-month suspended prison sentence for three years on Thursday, after he was found guilty of assaulting a teenage girl in 1981, when he was ...