Cyprus

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo said on Tuesday she is eager to discuss with the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders the way forward on ...

The role of the Cypriot dialect in arts and culture was the focus of a recent event at the Limassol-based Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak). Speakers highlighted the role of ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO), it emerged on Tuesday, has instructed all hospitals to cut down on surgeries requiring intensive care unit (ICU) stays. The organisation stated that ICU bed ...

Buy a book, Save a stray is the motto of the upcoming book bazaar at Yfantourgeio TheWorkplace. An initiative of the PAWS organisation (Protecting Animals Without Shelter) in cooperation with ...

In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis announced on Monday that their governments will institutionalise a coordination body, as a new chapter in Athens ...

Ayia Napa mayor Christos Zannetou on Monday said that the signs and feedback garnered at the ITB Berlin tourism conference in Germany have been positive, with the feeling of optimism, ...

News law giving priority to vulnerable groups in areas serving the public was approved by the House last week, but there are doubts about how it will be implemented. A ...

Health officials announced on Monday that a 34-year-old pedestrian is in critical condition after he was struck by a car along the Limassol-Nicosia highway, by the Strovolos exit. Police are ...

St Patrick’s celebrations in Cyprus generally see bars and associations put on green-leaved fiestas to celebrate the Irish tradition and with the special day coming up on Friday one ...

A British company is being grilled by the agriculture ministry over its ‘buffalomi’ product – a “halloumi style cheese” made from buffalo milk. “After many trials, tastings and guidance from halloumi ...

Electricity from renewables fed into the grid will this year be cut back by an estimated 6 to 8 per cent, to ensure stability of the system, the Transmission System Operator (TSO) ...

Generic medications save consumers millions of euros but yet in Cyprus, beneficiaries of Gesy still don’t trust or choose them, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said on Monday. Generic ...

Lawmakers on Monday expressed contentment with the fact that the women’s Under-16 national basketball team will take part in an upcoming international competition after having been previously excluded. At ...

A 38-year-old Paphos resident was jailed for three-and-a-half years on Monday after being found guilty of about ten robberies. The district court heard that he had broken into and robbed ...

A 37-year-old man has been arrested for a case involving illegal entry into Cyprus. According to a witness statement, he was the driver of a five-metre-long boat, carrying 18 men, including ...

Betting activity in 2022 went up by 22 per cent compared to the previous year, coming to €959 million, the head of the National Betting Authority told MPs on Monday. Ioanna Fiakkou was ...

The ‘TRNC’ flag was on display at the 146th Inter-parliamentary Union summit in Bahrain, alongside the flags of other countries, images that surfaced on the internet showed on Monday. A ...

Newly elected Disy leader Annita Demetriou walked into the party offices to a round of applause and a bouquet of flowers on Monday as she took over the helm of ...

A construction company in the Famagusta area was fined thousands of euros on Monday over a failure to apply work safety measures, the labour inspection department said. The company, Andreas ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis announced on Monday that their governments will institutionalise a coordination body, as a new chapter in Athens and Nicosia relations. “This ...

AI image generation is changing the way we make art. ALIX NORMAN speaks to an expert image creator, who is turning his imaginings of Cyprus into tangible images If the ...

Secondary teacher union Oelmek and the secondary parents’ association on Monday repeated their request for twice-yearly examinations to be scrapped, in a letter addressed to the Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, ...

The glitz, the glamour, the bloopers. There is more to Oscar night than the films says CONSTANTINOS PSILLIDES Despite a drop in ratings in recent years, the Oscars has always ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday spoke of the need to promote and implement an EU action plan aimed at keeping the migratory flow to Cyprus under control. On the ...