Cyprus

The north’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 13.3 per cent in 2022, according to the north’s statistics agency. The total GDP stood just shy of 73.9 billion TL (€2.6 billion), which ...

Employees from the Morphou district water committee will go on strike on Monday, saying their employer has not made social insurance contributions for two years. They also claim the cost ...

The legal service is dealing with one of its biggest ever caseloads surrounding the ‘golden passport’ scandal, with over 110 box files of data to be processed, it emerged on Friday. ...

The transport ministry has cancelled a tender for a new building for the legal service due to “proper management of public finances” it announced on Friday. As a result, plans ...

SBA personnel and other volunteers, including students, collected some 295 kilogrammes of trash during a cleanup operation along a six-kilometre stretch of beach in Larnaca on Friday. The cleanup occurred at ...

Diko leader Nikolas Papadopoulos on Friday expressed his “satisfaction” with the government’s defence spending target and with the progress being made to reach it. The government has set a ...

There are signs that there is movement regarding the appointment of UN envoy on the Cyprus problem, Unficyp Chief Colin Stewart said on Friday at the fourth Cyprus Forum in ...

Some 228 public schools will start operating in the afternoon as of Monday despite challenges that arose, the education ministry has announced. The optional afternoon schools will be implemented for the 2023...

The interior ministry said on Friday it has the “clear intention to proceed” with the construction of housing for 600 low-income families in Limassol. They added, “for this reason, the project ...

House President Annita Demetriou called for the creation of an “environment which encourages women” to participate in public life on Friday. She was peaking on the issue of equality and ...

Police made another arrest centred on the anti-migration riot in Limassol earlier in September, with the suspect linked to a vandalised barber shop. The police announced on Friday that the ...

Giorgos Lakkotrypis on Friday was announced as the Consul of Kazakhstan in Cyprus, with the confirmation taking place in the presence of the Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Deputy ...

The interior ministry is seeking repatriation of some Syrians as it says it is approaching the immigration issue comprehensively, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Friday. Speaking against the backdrop ...

Cyprus requires a brave change of mindset regarding transparency and tackling corruption, House President Annita Demetriou said on Friday at the 4th Cyprus Forum. That, she said, can be achieved ...

Paphos police arrested a 25 and 42-year-old just after midnight on Friday on suspicion of stealing construction materials and tools. Kouklia police station received a call that there was suspicious activity ...

A vitally important project for the care of infants in Cyprus is taking shape as the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy) proceeds with the expansion and renovation of Archbishop Makarios ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus has concluded the competition for a new digital platform for customer compliance, CBC governor Constantinos Herodotou explained during an event held on Thursday evening. The ...

A delivery driver was injured in a traffic accident that occurred on a busy avenue in Nicosia around noon on Friday. Police said the man’s motorbike collided with a ...

Conservationists in Cyprus released griffon vultures into the wild on Friday, in the latest attempt to boost a critically endangered population of the scavenger birds. Once thriving, the number of ...

By Gina Agapiou and Tom Cleaver More remains to be done towards transparency and restoring the public’s confidence in the institutions such as justice, President Nikos Christodoulides said on ...

A slightly perceptible tremor was felt in the early hours of Friday in the coastal area of ​​Limassol, according to a statement from the geological survey department. The announcement states ...

A delegation of the Paphos tourism promotion company (Etap) on Friday announced by a project to further underwater archaeology. The project in aims to strengthen marine archaeology as part of ...

Amid mounting complaints over the cost of living, the government on Thursday said it may bring back electricity and fuel tax subsidies in the near future. Speaking to public broadcaster ...

Joining a very busy October agenda is an event that arrives for the first time: the Poetry Moves International Festival is based on the thought that the beginning of everything ...