Cyprus

Evan Placey’s play Girls Like That returns to the Cyprus theatre scene this month but this time it is not a theatre company putting on the production but a ...

In today’s episode, a 32-year-old man on Wednesday was handed a three-year jail sentence by Limassol district court after being found guilty of causing a triple fatal car accident ...

The weather on Thursday will become mostly cloudy with chances of light right, the met office reported. According to the met office, in the morning it will be mostly sunny, ...

The Synthesis Centre for Research and Innovation announced this week that is proceeding with the launch of the Cyprus Forum for Social Innovation, which is expected to help promote social ...

The education ministry’s proposal for an alternative to twice-yearly exams will be ready within the week after it is examined by the legal service, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said ...

Issues at Pentakomo waste treatment plant persist, the House environment committee heard on Wednesday during a discussion on the impact of municipal waste on the environment and the health of ...

The second postmortem on the body of 28-year-old Lesya Bykova, who was found dead on Saturday near Petra tou Romiou, was completed on Wednesday, with officials saying no statements would ...

Shining the spotlight on creatives and artistic work is the focus of upcoming masterclass at Thinker Maker Space of CYENS. A packed one-day workshop with invited guest speakers from abroad ...

In a well-known voice of the British Cypriot culture PAUL LAMBIS finds a musician who also doubles as an academic Haji Mike is much better known in Cyprus as a ...

The air traffic controllers’ union in the north said on Wednesday that the north’s ‘airline’ that will start flights to Turkey next month is in fact a travel agency. ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday called an urgent meeting on the issues surrounding refugee estates, which is due to take place on Thursday. The announcement comes just one day ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill aiming to facilitate strategic investments, simplifying procedures and reducing bureaucracy. Strategic investments are those which amount to €20 million, of which at least 75 per cent ...

Lobbying regulations need to be passed before the Easter holidays, the House institutions committee said on Wednesday. Following a meeting with the transparency commissioner and the head of the anti-corruption ...

Four companies licensed by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) banked with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, the two US banks which recently collapsed, according to statements ...

House speaker Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday that the parliament had sent a letter of protest to the Bahrain parliament, following images that surfaced showing the ‘TRNC’ flag at an ...

Free dental checks will be available across all districts’ general hospitals on March 20 as the health ministry seeks to raise awareness of oral hygiene. Free oral hygiene checks will also ...

A bill on rolling out body cams on police officers and their vehicles is rife with “contradictions, inconsistencies and has serious potential for being unconstitutional”, Akel MP Aristos Damianou said ...

Between 60,000 and 100,000 people in Cyprus are estimated to be suffering from long Covid-19, the federation of patients’ associations (Osak) said on Wednesday as it announced the publication of manuals to ...

An ancient grave with two skeletons and vases were uncovered in Limassol on Wednesday as part of the ongoing anti-flooding roadworks. The find has been attributed as belonging to the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met separately with UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo on Wednesday, in efforts to find a way forward in stalled Cyprus problem negotiations. ...

The health ministry on Wednesday issued new advice on booster vaccinations against Covid-19 for adults. The health ministry’s national advisory committee on vaccination recommended the use of VidPrevtyn Beta ...

Firecrackers are neither toys nor are they a tradition, the police stated on Wednesday as they announced heightened clampdown efforts in the lead-up to Easter. The warning came shortly after ...

The government should take measures to relieve low-income households hit by inflation, Peo trade union said while the consumer protection service said prices last month showed a drop in the ...

A naked man who approached a woman in Ayia Napa was arrested four days later but attacked and bit police officers during his arrest. The case first emerged on March 10 ...