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The Green Party slammed the president’s “lofty statements” on national environmental policies on Saturday, saying dozens of large trees were cut the same day in the capital. Cyprus, instead ...

Cypriots will be able to share their opinion through electronic non-binding referendums, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. The relevant deputy ministry is already working on how the institution will ...

The Cyprus Tabletop Gaming Day is Cyprus’ very first festival that is exclusively dedicated to tabletop gaming of all kinds. An all-day event in Nicosia on Sunday at the cafeteria ...

A 55-year-old man sentenced to two years in jail for stealing a bronze statue depicting a girl with a hula hoop is facing additional charges after he broke a window ...

A minor who lit up a torch during a football match this week has been arrested for violating the law on violence in sports venues, Paphos police said on Saturday. ...

Officers at a Nicosia crossing point arrested two men, aged 44 and 34, on suspicion of stealing almost €88,500 from a hotel room in Larnaca this week. The two suspects were stopped for ...

Improvised Molotov cocktails and small gas cylinders were found in Dali over the weekend, a week before Easter. The explosives were found by officers following a tip-off on Friday about ...

As part of NiMAC’s ongoing exhibition ‘we can only begin to notice’, which presents non-fiction films by female creators from Cyprus and the Cypriot diaspora, comes a film screening ...

The price of basic household foodstuffs continued to surge into March despite the inflation rate “slowing” to 5.8 per cent, according to the statistical service. The rate of 5.8 per cent was ...

Over the last 70 years, Cyprus’ birth rate has plummeted. Alix Norman asks those who grew up in the 1950s what it was like to be surrounded by crowds of children ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) this week released a report stating that the country’s current account deficit reached €2.46 billion in 2022, equivalent to 9.1 per cent of the country’s ...

You gonna eat that? More and more Cypriots are saying yes – with a study finding that food waste is decreasing while finishing leftovers is becoming more common. The percentage of ...

Two 19-year-olds from Limassol were arrested on Friday after they bought 400 firecrackers from a shop in Pyla. Larnaca police spokesman Charis Hadjiyiasemis said officers are currently working on a campaign ...

Another 21 sakura saplings are in bloom at the Kampos park in the Paphos village, bringing the total to 45 trees, the Japanese Embassy in Cyprus announced on Friday. “While the trees ...

The Larnaca port and marina project will change all of Cyprus, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Friday, visiting the site from which a ferry link with Piraeus, Greece will ...

Events just for laughs are coming up. First up, and with a looser structure, is a stand-up and open mic night at Prozak Coffee shop on Saturday. The event at ...

The government on Friday decided to undertake a €130 million project to provide “respectable living conditions” on refugee estates. Expected to span across the next 10 years, President Nikos Christodoulides said the ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Costas Koumis said he expects a good summer in terms of arrivals to Cyprus, adding that, along with the usual high volumes of visitors from the ...

Nicosia will not be giving Ukraine weapons, only humanitarian aid, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis clarified on Friday, commenting on a meeting between Cypriot Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas and his Ukrainian ...

Passengers wishing to receive a refund for their Blue Air airline ticket can submit a relevant request, according to a statement released by the European Consumer Centre in Cyprus on ...

The completion date for the construction of a jetty to facilitate a floating LNG storage and regasification unit (Fsru) at Vasiliko is likely to be pushed back once again, Energy ...

Another 1,242 new Covid-19 infections and one death were traced in the last week, the health ministry said on Friday. The death concerned a 95-year-old woman who died on April 4, which ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday welcomed several pupils of the Makedonitissa primary school at the presidential palace ahead of the Easter period. The pupils sang traditional Easter hymns in front ...

Chief Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelaou believes there is the possibility for developments on the Cyprus problem, pointing to the need to resolve uncertainties in the region. He explained that ...