Cyprus

President of the Republic Nikos Christodoulides has received the incident reports compiled by the police relating to the events taking place in Chlorakas and Limassol, respectively, the government said on ...

Excavation works have started in the Aloa village, where dozens of Turkish Cypriots were killed ahead of the second leg of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus 1974, the Turkish Cypriot member ...

Authorities continue to be lax in collecting income tax, and as a result the state is losing millions each year, the auditor-general said in parliament on Thursday. Odysseas Michaelides was ...

The government on Thursday revealed that it will soon bring a bill that will allow the justice minister to issue a decree barring access to websites deemed to have racist ...

Signs on the motorway will begin to be replaced after they were vandalised, the House transport committee said on Thursday, following a session where they also discussed the issue of ...

The Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Limassol general hospital is set to be “strengthened” with new equipment and machines, with the funding coming from the Madame Figaro Woman ...

No racism will be tolerated in schools, and all children no matter who they are, should have the opportunities to move forward and learn, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on ...

Supporting columns had been “cut” at the Isias hotel in Adiyaman, Turkey, which collapsed during February’s earthquakes in the area and killed 24 Turkish Cypriot children, according to a report ...

Cyprus’ Ambassador to Kuwait, Michael Mavros, expressed his sincere apologies to the Kuwaiti tourists and their families affected by the violent events in Limassol last week during an anti-migration rally, ...

Defence minister Michalis Giorgallas pledged his “undivided support for the people of Armenia” in a telephone call with his Armenian counterpart Suren Papikyan, on Thursday. The pair held the telephone ...

4G mobile internet is now available in the north for the first time, after telecommunications company KKTCell began providing the service at midnight on Wednesday. KKTCell, a subsidiary of Turkish ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Thursday issued a fresh warning over scammers impersonating CySEC employees, as well as websites pretending to be that of the commission, in ...

The interior ministry has registered 240 individuals at the Ayios Nikolaos apartment complex in Chlorakas, of which two were found to in Cyprus illegally, a migration department official said on Thursday. ...

Shipwrecks have long captured the human imagination. They are also a draw for tourists, both above and under the water finds PAUL LAMBIS People have always been fascinated by shipwrecks. ...

‘Unhealthy’ relations between Russia and Cyprus The international community must “commit itself to a two-state solution” to the Cyprus problem if negotiations for reunification fail yet again, according to former ...

A 56-year-old man charged for the death of a dog after it was stuck in a trap was released under certain conditions, it emerged on Thursday. Paphos police spokesman Michalis ...

President Nikos Christodoulides in a letter addressed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, requested that a meeting be arranged with the Turkish Cypriot leader and also the appointment of a ...

Recently, heat pumps have become increasingly popular for home heating and cooling. That’s right, not only can heat pumps keep your home cool in the Mediterranean heat, but they ...

The police response was inadequate to the situation during the recent racial attacks in Limassol but this can only be solved by supporting the force with concrete actions, Isotita union ...

Spoiler alert, you are about to read a lot of praise and virtually no criticism whatsoever. As far as I am concerned, the recently opened Kritamo in Strovolos, which replaced ...

In today’s episode, Deputies grilled Cyprus’s police chief on institutionalised racism. Police descended on Nicosia’s old town to shore up their presence amid rumours of potential violent ...

Eleni Philippou looks at the events coming up at the weekend The second weekend of September arrives with plenty of festivals to choose from and as we go deeper into ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas The first day of school for thousands of secondary school students began on Thursday, as children returned to their desks and gymnasiums and lyceums. ...

Paphos District Court on Wednesday imposed a 15-month prison sentence to a 74-year-old woman for causing the death of a 10-year-old schoolgirl. According to police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou, the 74-year-old ...