Cyprus News

The much-touted opening up of the electricity market has been pushed back to the summer of 2025, MPs heard on Monday. They got the news from Stavros Stavrinos, executive director at ...

Heavy hailstorms in the Pentadaktylos mountain range caused the motorway between Nicosia and Kyrenia to ice over on Monday night. A flurry of hailstones in the region left the road ...

The Kyrenia Municipality is to use 100 per cent of the property tax revenue it collected in 2023 to “meet the urgent needs of schools” within the region, its mayor Murat Senkul ...

Nicosia’s Theatro Ena theatre announced on Monday the suspension of its operations after 37 years of continuous presence. The theatre announced the decision in a social media post, lambasting Deputy ...

The north’s ‘agriculture minister’ Huseyin Cavus said on Monday that the Republic “must tighten its quarantine rules” regarding the import of citrus fruit. He made his comments in ‘parliament’ ...

President announces digital app among more than 80 policies President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday announced plans to create a “digital citizen” mobile application, on which people can access government services. The ...

The House finance committee on Monday approved the release of €1.04 million for the procurement of services from the anti-corruption authority. The amount concerns the purchase of services from experts for ...

Wind and string instruments and classical music compositions will sound all over Cyprus in February as the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra presents two new concert series. Its February agenda is not ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Monday met with taxi drivers in light of a planned clampdown on Turkish Cypriot taxis operating in the Republic. Those in attendance discussed “possible ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) on Monday denied it has already decided to invest €43 million into upgrading its power plant at Dhekelia, following allegations by an association of businesses. ...

Long waiting lists for specialised treatments on Gesy are “a lever for the financial exploitation” of patients, Gesy’s supervision commissioner Eugenia Efstathiou said on Monday. Efstathiou was speaking at ...

The DNA evidence for two defendants in the Ayia Napa gang rape trial was thrown out during a hearing at Famagusta criminal court on Monday. As such, their trial will ...

Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are impacting Cyprus, leaving stakeholders increasingly concerned, director general of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber Thomas Kazakos said on Monday. During a press conference, he ...

The auditor-general and the rector of the state-run Technical University of Cyprus (Tepak) traded more barbs on Monday, the former describing the university as a den of “decay”. Earlier in ...

Police recorded over a thousand violations over the weekend, authorities said on Monday commenting on their beefed-up operations. Police carried out 2,103 checks on persons and 2,091 checks on vehicles and 310 checks ...

The cost of compensating every single Greek Cypriot for every single piece of land lost in 1974 may top £22.4 billion (€26.3bn), former Immovable Property Commission (IPC) chairman Ayfer Said Erkmen has ...

Cyprus has witnessed a remarkable surge in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, emerging as a central driver of economic development, with the CEO of Invest Cyprus Marios Tannousis ...

Akel MP Irene Charalambides will be submitting a bill to parliament aimed at separating the attorney-general’s (AG) powers by amending the constitution. “It is about time this discussion begins,” ...

Members of both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot unions of journalists joined forces to plant trees “on the soil of their common homeland”, as stated in a joint press ...

The Cyprus meteorological department on Monday issued an amber warning for intense rain and storms that will remain in place until Wednesday evening. The warning, in effect from 10pm on ...

The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (Kne) announced on Monday that it is marking 35 years of successful operation since its establishment on January 26, 1989, with a number of events, which ultimately seek to ...

Anaesthesiologists working at Makarios hospital are refusing to participate in some abortions citing religious reasons, it emerged in parliament on Monday. In a letter shared to the House human rights ...

The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy on Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin began her meetings on the island on Monday, discussing issues with Unficyp head Colin Stewart first. Holguin is set ...

Turkish Cypriot CTP party leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday it is the of children of mixed marriages to gain citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus and should not be ...