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The island does reasonably well against its own clean targets because so far it has been setting the bar very low By Charles Ellinas Cyprus’ distorted renewables market was led ...

Large British expat communities no longer have any say in how local affairs are run By Bejay Browne British permanent residents living in Cyprus have now officially lost the right ...

‘He was bit obsessive… always taking pictures of himself… always out posing…’ Everyone knows online dating can be dangerous, but that never stopped anyone from swiping right. Men who used ...

This week’s assassination has highlighted the grip of organised crime By Esra Aygin The brutal assassination of a Turkish Cypriot businessman with alleged links to the underworld, days after ...

UNIVERSAL outrage greeted the publication of the auditor-general’s report about the Gesy specialist doctors who were making big fortunes by submitting countless fictitious payment claims to the Health Insurance ...

The health ministry announced that five people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,120 had tested positive from 83,144 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.55 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

Man’s best friend will soon be aiding efforts to protect Cyprus’ endangered Griffon vulture population thanks to a new initiative of an EU-funded programme to find and remove poison ...

Scores of protesters in Cyprus protested against coronavirus restrictions and health mandates on Saturday with a convoy of cars that set off from Paphos on its way to Nicosia. The ‘...

Some 363 unemployed people showed up for job interviews at the Alexander The Great hotel in Paphos, the local hoteliers association head Thanos Michaelides said on Saturday, as the local industry ...

U.S. President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will speak on Saturday as Western nations warned a war in Ukraine could ignite at any moment. Putin requested ...

The 65-year-old building housing Limassol police headquarters needs maintenance and improvement as a matter of urgency, House legal affairs committee president Nicos Tornaritis said on Friday after he headed a ...

The health ministry on Thursday gave a breakdown of the vaccination status of Covid patients in hospitals. A little more than half of those in hospital (55 per cent) were unvaccinated, ...

The health ministry announced that four people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,485 had tested positive from 115,325 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.15 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

The children’s rights commissioner has responded to parents’ complaints over the education ministry’s rollout of a book criticised for causing “terror”, minimising the mental health impact of lockdowns ...

Police on Friday said they identified three cars imported to Cyprus by a crime ring which, with the alleged involvement of public servants, has been importing slightly damaged luxury vehicles ...

Milk, cheese, and some key veg are amongst the goods to have recorded the highest prices increase in the last month with tomatoes up by over 200 per cent from €1.05 per ...

The nine communities living near Vasiliko staged a demonstration on Friday morning to protest the imminent relocation of two asphalt plants to the area, which the government has scheduled three ...

New measures will be announced in coming months to safeguard the public health care system from abuse and fraud, the health minister said on Friday amid growing concerns Gesy was ...

A total of 776 people died from coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, the health ministry said on Friday in a new update of data submitted to the epidemiological monitoring ...

A 33-year-old man on Friday pleaded not guilty to the premeditated murder of two women in Amiantos last year while his older brother pleaded not guilty to being an accessory-after-the-fact. ...

The new sports stadium in Limassol will cost taxpayers almost triple what it was initially priced at, MPs heard on Thursday. At the House watchdog committee, Marios Petrides of the ...

A Greek Cypriot farmer who had gone into the buffer zone to tend his crops said he had been approached by armed Turkish soldiers, who threatened to kill him if ...

Traffic violations have dropped by half ever since the cameras went ‘live’ compared to the period during which they were used on a pilot basis, MPs heard on Thursday. During ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced one more death from Covid-19, while nationwide testing detected 2,815 new positives. The latest fatality was a woman aged 78 who passed away on Wednesday. That brings ...