Cyprus

A 17-year-old was in intubated and is in critical condition after his motorcycle collided with a car in Xylofagou on Friday afternoon. The driver of the car, aged 72, who tested ...

Two men were injured and several arrested after an assault involving a number of people in Nicosia on Friday. Police said that they had received information about a fracas outside ...

Paphos police arrested a 22-year-old late on Friday after they found a cache of low-level explosives in his possession. According to police, the arrest came about after a search warrant ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission CySEC this week announced its decision to impose a fine of €1 million on the Cyprus Investment Firm Itrade Global (Cy) Ltd. According to an ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) reported this week that its January 2023 Bank Loan Survey had recorded stricter lending criteria for all categories of loans, resulting in reduced supply and ...

Paphos plans to strengthen its tourism industry through development and innovation, according to Kyriakos Drousiotis, chairman of the district’s regional board of tourism (Etap). Drousiotis emphasised the agency’s ...

Police, members of public struggle to deal with unruly gangs of teenagers Youth criminality in Cyprus has become a social problem being dealt with across the island, as incidents across ...

One more performance presented by the Nicosia International Festival will arrive this month bringing an adaptation of Frank McGuinness’ play Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me. The Irish dramatist’s ...

Widespread blackouts in the north are continuing, while a tense situation arose between employees of the Turkish Cypriot El-Sen union, and the private Turkish company Aksa, which the ‘government’ instructed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ pick for board member in the public service commission (Edy) resigned only a day after being appointed to the job when his academic credentials were called into ...

The government has prepared a bill which will douse the currently out of control and controversial Easter bonfire celebrations, generally centered around the lambradjia. A bill prepared by the interior ...

Following his two-month residency at Thinker Maker Space in Nicosia, new media artist and designer Jin Lee will host a presentation and showcase this month of the innovative work he ...

Cancer vaccines will be made available in Cyprus as soon as the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approves them, director of pharmaceutical services Elena Panayiotopoulou said on Friday. “It is only ...

Larnaca is quickly becoming a popular tourist destination, according to Costas Koumis, the Deputy Minister of Tourism, who pledged to continue supporting the district’s efforts in making this happen. ...

The Easter holy light will arrive in Cyprus on Saturday evening after 6pm from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem an announcement from the Bank of Cyprus said. ...

US Ambassador to Cyprus Julie Fisher has hailed the cooperation between the US and Cyprus in holding to account those enabling Russia’s war on Ukraine. Her statements just before ...

Nicosia’s art scene will welcome one more new art exhibition, opening this April as The Apocalypse Gallery hosts the work of three creatives. Three Dialogues is a group exhibition ...

In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides hastily convened a meeting at the palace on Thursday evening to discuss US and UK sanctions that have led to a punishing blow ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

Cyprus has unique potential for space exploration, said space consultant and former head of the ESA’s Solar System Exploration division Dr Marcello Coradini on Thursday. Coradini, a key contributor ...

Two separate arrests in Limassol led to police seizing over 2,000 firecrackers and a number of torches, police said on Friday. The first was a 17-year-old who was detained on Thursday ...

Cyprus’ trade deficit increased by approximately €1 billion during the first two months of the year, compared to the same period last year, according to a report released this week by ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) this week announced the establishment of the Cyprus-Cambodia Business Association, which aims to promote and strengthen economic and business relations between the ...

Labour union Democratic Labour Federation of Cyprus (Deok) this week issued a statement expressing strong dissatisfaction with the “manifestly inadequate sentence” of suspended imprisonment imposed by the Larnaca permanent criminal ...