Cyprus

Cyprus witnessed a significant surge in private debt during the first quarter of 2023, reaching a staggering 218 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), amounting to €60.1 billion, according ...

Truth is the basis for peace, lawyer and member of non-governmental organisation TruthNOW Achilleas Demetriades stated on Monday. Demetriades, who is spearheading efforts towards the establishment of a truth commission ...

A 40-year-old man on remand for eight days is a “very serious case”, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Monday where the suspect is alleged to have uploaded sexual content ...

Greece and Cyprus have common goals concerning the Cyprus problem both President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday, during the latter’s visit. At a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will visit Jordan and Palestine on Tuesday, an announcement from the presidential palace said on Monday. He will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman along ...

A boat licensed to carry 54 people was used to transport 73 irregular migrants back to Lebanon along with 80 police officers overseeing the operation, the police officers’ association Isotita said on Monday. ...

A small increase in the number of Covid cases in Cyprus has been recorded in the last few days although this is not a cause for concern, the state health ...

British pensioner David Hunter was released from prison on Monday after Paphos criminal court handed him a two-year prison sentence on the count of manslaughter. Taking into account the time ...

In today’s episode, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due in Cyprus on an official visit. One of the main topics on the agenda today will be EU-Turkish relations, ...

While August is the island’s unofficial month of rest and vacation, Technopolis 20 in Paphos continues to provide a rich cultural agenda. Throughout the next month, several happenings will fill ...

A fire in Palaichori was caused by a short circuit at an abandoned water pump that was not meant to be receiving electricity, director of the Forestry Department Charalambos Alexandrou ...

Police on Sunday arrested two men in Paphos for a case of burglary and theft and causing malicious damage. The arrest of the two men, aged 24, was preceded by a ...

Police on Monday are appealing for information that may help locate Menik Sureka Seelangalage, aged 54, from Sri Lanka, who has been missing since 14 July from her home in Larnaca. The 54...

On Monday temperatures are expected to rise following the weekend’s slight respite, and a yellow weather warning has been issued in place from 11am until 5pm. Temperatures will rise ...

The police leadership has sought to allay fears coming from the union Isotita that officers lives were being put in danger when they are required to accompany migrants back to ...

Agrivoltaics seem to offer the perfect solution to the problem of appropriating farmland for solar parks, but are they a nonstarter in Cyprus? As with everything energy-related, things are not ...

A new yellow alert was issued by the met office on Sunday, warning of high temperatures on Monday. Inland temperatures are expected to rise to 40C. The alert will be ...

A divided Cyprus cannot really heal without a process of reconciliation By Fahri Zihni The 18th century English writer Samuel Johnson wrote “among the calamities of war may be jointly ...

A shrinking expat population and a theatre-going decline in general has impacted membership of the long-established Anglo-Cypriot Theatre company Graham Thomas is a worried man – and it’s not about ...

Cinephiles are in for a treat this August as the Lemesos International Documentary Festival returns for its 18th edition. The annual Limassol festival kicks off on Tuesday at the Lanitis ...

A fire that broke out at 2.24pm in the area of ​​Palaichori was brought under complete control at 5.20pm, the forestry department said on Sunday. The fire burned ​​10 hectares of ...

The Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis is on an official meeting to the island on Monday to discuss issues of relations between Cyprus and Greece, Turkey, and the EU. ...

Drones have proven extremely useful as a means to help prevent fires, the spokesman of the fire department said on Sunday as he called on the public to become “safety ...

Secularism under threat as summer courses for children offered in mosques “Today, the tyranny of secularism [in the northern part of Cyprus] has matched the tyranny of Greek Cypriots. This ...