Cyprus

Short power cuts took place on Saturday morning as the Cyprus transmission system operator overestimated the amount of energy which was to be produced through photovoltaics. The winter weather caught ...

Winter has returned and gripped the island as the met office issued a yellow alert in effect until 5pm Saturday, with snow on the mountains and police urging caution on ...

Two men were remanded on Saturday after a mob of 40 people armed with bats and iron bars in Yermasogeia attacked two others while they were in their car last Friday. ...

Scammers tricked a 79-year-old mother into paying €9,000 for an operation she was told her daughter desperately needed. The lady in Nicosia received a phone call at the home line and ...

From the changing shades of the flag to the colour schemes of the football teams, Cyprus has a distinctive palette. But why were these colours chosen asks Alix Norman Blue ...

Tourist arrivals in Cyprus increased by 65.6 per cent year-on-year in February 2023, reaching 119,081 visitors, up from 71,921 during the same month of the previous year, according to a report released on Friday ...

The number of job vacancies in Cyprus in the fourth quarter of 2022 amounted to 7,821 in total, according to a report released this week by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). According ...

A court decision vindicating a 78-year-old man for refusing to pay cemetery tax to Oroklini council, may put other municipalities in Cyprus between a rock and a hard place, the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday called the promotion of Cyprus’ identity and culture “of paramount importance, especially considering the risks posed by the continued occupation of the island.” Reading a ...

Both the growing number of children born out of wedlock and the new national health system Gesy pose challenges to safeguarding and protecting Cyprus’ extremely strong, decades-long national thalassaemia prevention ...

As the Music in the Mountains series continues, more and more local bands, duos and trios perform in Cyprus’ rural villages. Café-bars and restaurants will host some of the ...

Residents in dangerous refugee apartment buildings that will undergo renovation or be completely rebuilt are set to receive a lump sum to pay rent elsewhere, as the state will take ...

British High Commissioner to Cyprus Irfan Siddiq, expressed on Friday the full support of the UK government to the Cypriot President’s initiative for the resumption of negotiations for a ...

The goal is to have a trustworthy, reliable, and responsive fire brigade, Justice Minister Anna Koukides-Procopiou said during her first official visit to the fire service headquarters on Friday. The ...

Cyprus can be a model of peaceful coexistence of people of different religions and cultures through the resolution of the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. He was ...

The union of petrol station owners has called for an urgent meeting with the president to finally resolve what they say is the unacceptable purchasing of petrol from the north. ...

Dancer Dinos Kkanti was honoured on Thursday evening with a plaque by Larnaca municipality for winning a Guinness world record for the most wine glasses balanced on the head. A ...

Labour union Pasyek Peo on Friday called on the forestry department to staff as many stations in mountainous areas as possible in view of the summer season and the consequent ...

Jason Kaye, a pioneer of jungle techno and influential UK garage DJ, producer and label owner of Cypriot origin has died aged 54. The news broke on social media last weekend, ...

A Paphos special education teacher has to carry children to the toilets herself, House Education Committee chairman Pavlos Mylonas said on Friday, highlighting the need to invest more funds in ...

Ireland’s Minister of State for Law Reform, James Browne on Friday visited the anthropological lab of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) to discuss cooperation initiatives. The minister was ...

University of Cyprus rector Tasos Christofides on Friday denied allegations of conflict of interest surrounding the employment of his daughter, calling on the auditor-general to show some respect on the ...

Six Covid-19 deaths and 1,281 infections were recorded in the last week, the health ministry said on Friday. At the same time, 41 Covid-19 patients remain hospitalised. Ten of these are in ...

Opposition party Akel is expecting to be updated by President Nikos Christodoulides on his proposal regarding the EU’s more active participation in the Cyprus problem. “We are very close ...