Cyprus

Fans of electronic music have plenty to look forward to this season. As September arrives, a big music festival will bring three days of partying with 50 DJs from around the ...

Two events are set to take place at AG Leventis Gallery on Wednesday September 30, happening as part of its ongoing temporary exhibition Myth Unbound: Ariadne – Andromeda. Starting off the day ...

Attacks on UN peacekeeping forces in Cyprus are completely unacceptable, British Conservative MP Theresa Villiers said. The British MP added her voice to the international condemnation of the episodes in ...

A 23-year-old man was remanded in custody on Wednesday in connection with the arrival of a boat carrying 27 migrants. The 23-year-old was brought before the District Court of Famagusta which ...

State services are plagued by ageism, the head of the Third Age Observatory, Dimos Antoniou, told the CyBC. The watchdog organisation rep’s statements came in the wake of an ...

Thursday morning will be mostly clear after some increased low clouds early on. In the afternoon locally increased clouds will develop in the mountains, which may bring brief isolated showers, ...

The Association of Cyprus Tourist Enterprises (Stek) and the regional administration of the island of Crete this week announced that they are set to hold an initiative under the banner ...

There will be no shortages in grain for human consumption as the government would step in to prevent such a scenario, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos assured the House agriculture committee ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met with representatives of multiple Cypriot diaspora groups at the Presidential palace on Wednesday evening. In attendance at the meeting were delegates from the World federation of ...

The Geroskipou municipality has “no intention of discussing the possibility” of converting a former military in the base to be used as a reception centre for migrants, the village’s ...

An event to mark Ukraine’s independence day and national flag day was held on Finikoudes beach promenade on Wednesday evening. Attendees held a 20-metre-long Ukrainian flag, which was created ...

A Turkish Cypriot teachers’ trade union refused to sign a working calendar contract with the north’s ‘education ministry’ on Wednesday, releasing a statement of disgust at the current state ...

There is a 70 megawatt energy deficit in the north, according to Caglayan Cesurer, the chairman of electricity authority Kib-Tek workers’ union El-Sen. Speaking to local media, Cesurer said that alternating ...

If it is a break from the ordinary music scene found on the island you are after, an upcoming concert is one to note down. September 19’s music performance will ...

The government’s vision for Gesy “is the creation of a new culture where beneficiaries and providers will protect it, for it is property of the Republic’s citizens and ...

A 25-year-old man was remanded in custody for two days on Wednesday in connection with the stabbing of another man of the same age in Nicosia in June. Meanwhile, a 41...

Cyprus’ energy sector is crucial for the country’s competitive edge and must adapt to renewable energy demands if it is overcome the major challenges it currently faces, Energy Minister ...

The government’s covid-19 scientific advisory team is to convene on August 29 to review the current indicators in the face of a recent rise in virus cases. Health Minister Popi ...

House president Annita Demetriou met with Greek deputy foreign minister Giorgos Kotsiras on Wednesday in light of the ongoing World Conference of the Cyprus’ Diaspora. Kotsiras is responsible within the ...

A district officer is being investigated after she allegedly asked a woman why she was bothering to renew her elderly parents’ IDs as they were bedridden, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Wednesday met with teachers’ unions Poed and Oelmek to discuss a slew of issues affecting state schools, from staffing and the syllabus to the instalment ...

In a member of Cyprus’ diaspora PAUL LAMBIS finds a woman who won a beauty contest and used the victory to raise environmental issues and battling for the freedom of ...

The government’s position against any changes to the status quo is steadfast, according to its spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis. “We are not even going to discuss any planning that calls ...

The increase in Nicosia bus fares will not only make consumers dig deeper in their pockets but will also cause delays across the entire bus network, making life harder for ...