Cyprus News

State pathologist Panicos Stavrianos has been barred from taking the stand in court proceedings investigating the death of former national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou. The development during Friday’s court hearing ...

Compulsory testing for Covid-19 within 48 hours of visits to a plethora of locations has been reintroduced by the government, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Friday. Kanari was speaking during ...

Cheesemakers decided on Friday to suspend protest measures they announced to shut down dairy farms over an ongoing spat on halloumi. The looming threat had also led cattle farmers to ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou has hailed the government’s proposal to gradually expand the provision of free pre-primary education to children aged four years old and up. Speaking to the ...

Akel and Green Party politicians met with the German ambassador to Cyprus to discuss the ongoing trial of Kurdish political activist Kenan Ayaz, it emerged on Friday. According to a ...

Deputy Research, Innovation, and Digital Policy Minister Philippos Hadjizacharias resigned on Friday, amid rumours that he would be one of the cabinet ministers to face dismissal from President Nikos Christodoulides. ...

Arrest warrants have been issued for four more Turkish Cypriot lawyers for selling Greek Cypriot properties in the north, according to reports released on Friday. Akan Kursat, a Turkish Cypriot ...

An upcoming event this weekend will gather bibliophiles and animal lovers. The PAWS (Protecting Animals Without Shelter) Book Bazaar, in collaboration with the Yfantourgeio Book Club, is making its return ...

Two men, aged 24 and 25, have been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison at Famagusta District Court for smuggling migrants to Cyprus. According to a police bulletin on Friday, the two ...

Cyprus’ largest and most comprehensive calisthenics park has been installed at Larnaca’s Kastella Beach, it emerged on Friday. The park in a joint project between the city’s municipality ...

Palestine’s foreign minister is set to visit Cyprus to discuss growing concerns that the humanitarian corridor to Gaza may be ‘instrumentalised’ by Israel to displace residents in the besieged ...

A protest is being organised against the Sovereign British Bases in Cyprus and their use in running what organisers call military operations out of the island to Gaza, it was ...

Roadworks in Akamas will have to be corrected in part, the Green Party said on Friday, following a visit by foreign experts to the site after being invited by the ...

In today’s episode, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is disappointed over the lack of progress in resuming Cyprus talks and has called on both sides not to miss other opportunities ...

After a coordinated operation a 67-year-old man lost in the forest was found, police said on Friday. The man had gone mushroom hunting with two friends when he appeared to ...

Youths throwing firecrackers near the primary school in Livadia village also threw stones at a fire engine called to intervene, police said on Friday. At around 9.30 on Thursday evening nearby ...

Limassol is set to host the Beyond DisDance Festival for the second time from January 13 to 14, with parallel activities starting on January 12. Organised by the Ipogia Skini NGO, the festival ...

Two men were arrested in a drug bust where 42kg of cannabis were found in Larnaca, police said on Friday. The drug squad, Ykan, on Thursday stopped a 21-year-old driving ...

The weather on Friday will be increasingly cloudy with a chance of scattered showers in the western parts of the island, the met office said. According to the met office, ...

Cyprus’ registered unemployment figures witnessed an eight-month low in December 2023, according to seasonally adjusted data by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). According to the report, the number of registered unemployed ...

The Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA) this week released a statement expressing an optimistic outlook for 2024, anticipating another favourable year for the investment funds sector in Cyprus, despite any challenges ...

As the spat over government funding for theatre production continues, Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said that threats are not the solution, and actors will be the ones paying the ...

Access to nursing homes, hospitals and similar premises will be allowed to visitors only if they’ve tested negative for Covid-19, the cabinet formally decided on Thursday. The announced measures ...

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, on Thursday expressed concerns about the increasing militarisation of the buffer zone and said that the latest report on ...