Cyprus

In today’s episode, Former Disy leader Averof Neophytou has called on the government to take immediate measures to deal with the negative trends shown by economic indicators in the ...

With the start of the new season comes a renewed cultural agenda. A new wave of festivals, concerts and local productions will fill the island’s cultural scene, and back ...

A fire that broke out on Thursday afternoon in a building next to at an paint factory in the area of ​​Pera Chorio Nisou in the Nicosia district was due ...

A meeting will be held on Monday chaired by President Nikos Christodoulides to discuss the situation in the Paphos village of Chlorakas following a recent protest by migrants living at ...

The met office has issued a new yellow warning for Friday, for “extreme high temperatures”. Maximum temperatures expected to reach 41C inland and 33C in the higher mountains. The alert ...

Cyprus is one of six countries identified as facing the greatest water scarcity in the world, according to a report by the World Resources Institute. It found that Cyprus, along ...

One public school teacher was sacked last year after repeatedly not showing up for work, while three other educators received reprimands or fines. The sanctions against educators are listed in ...

Police in Nicosia on Thursday arrested a 29-year-old man after catching him red-handed in possession of almost 5kg of cannabis. According to a statement, officers of the Drug Squad flagged ...

Disy called for “immediate and drastic measures” related to the large influx of migrants in Chlorakas to ensure residents safety following a visit to the village on Friday. A delegation ...

Summertime and the living is… by the sea! As the crowds flock to the coasts to cool off, local bars are ready to entertain holidaymakers with a great choice of ...

Tourist arrivals reached 523,718 in July 2023 compared with 454,657 in July 2022, an increase of 15.2 per cent, the statistical service announced on Thursday. For the period of January – July 2023, arrivals totalled 2.137 million compared ...

The forestry department on Thursday appealed to hunters, ahead of the season on August 20, to be especially careful not to spark forest fires. The hunters are called on not to ...

The price of a litre of petrol in the north has gone above 30TL for the first time since the currency was revalued in 2005, with the equivalent value now also ...

There were 3,761 passenger complaints filed across the island’s public transport sector last year – ten a day – compared with 2021 when 2,268 complaints were submitted, it was revealed on Thursday. The figures, ...

Former Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Thursday called on the government to take immediate measures to deal with the negative trends shown by economic indicators in the second quarter of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday scolded both his health minister Popi Kanari and her ministry’s permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki over on ongoing public spat between the two, telling them ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis has condemned the north’s move to construct a road through the buffer zone between the villages of Pyla and Arsos. His condemnation comes after after ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli has announced his intention to dig a tunnel under the Pentadaktylos mountain range for road traffic. Speaking to Turkish television, he said the ...

Hunters are the main culprits in abandoning dogs, according to the Cyprus Environmental Movement which said on Thursday that 85-90 per cent of abandoned dogs are of hunting breeds. The ...

The national guard is investigating the circumstances under which an officer was critically injured at the Andreas Papandreou air base on Thursday. The officer was given treatment at the scene ...

Cyprus is to release up to 7,000 tonnes of grains, corresponding to 30 per cent of strategic reserves, to offset shortages in supply, the Grain Advisory Committee announced after meeting on Thursday. ...

Legal action has been initiated against the bus driver who went viral on social media after taunting the priest at the Apostolos Andreas monastery, according to the north’s ‘interior ...

Two Cypriot passport holders were arrested in Singapore as part of a suspected money laundering bust it emerged on Thursday, spurring Cyprus’ interior ministry to assure it would assess the ...

The attorney-general’s office is unlikely to proceed with a request to the supreme court to lift the parliamentary immunity of controversial independent MP Andreas Themistokleous, it was reported on ...