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Opposition parties gave a lukewarm response on Tuesday to President Nikos Christodoulides’ presentation of government goals for 2024 made a day earlier. “Certainly the president and the government will be judged ...

Attorney General George Savvides strongly denied corruption charges on Tuesday after a lawyer accused his office of collaborating with a billionaire Russian oligarch to allow an allegedly illegal $113.4 million deal ...

December 2023, with an average islandwide temperature of 14.5C, is the second warmest December, the met office said on Tuesday. The weather in December, it said, was extremely warm and extremely ...

The most important thing is to listen, not just to leaders, but to society, the UN secretary general’s personal envoy to Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin said on Tuesday following ...

Satisfaction with the progress of works on the new Cyprus Museum was expressed on Tuesday by Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades and Deputy Minister of Culture Vasiliki Kassianidou. “It’s a ...

More voices joined on Tuesday the growing condemnation over the Cyprus Medical Association’s handling of the doctor who was found guilty of indecent assault against his patient. Since the ...

Conservationists and the game service dismantled 26 illegal bird trapping installations in Larnaca, it was announced on Tuesday. Meanwhile the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) has accused hunters and trappers of ...

The much-touted opening up of the electricity market has been pushed back to the summer of 2025, MPs heard on Monday. They got the news from Stavros Stavrinos, executive director at ...

The long-awaited unilateral measures for the Turkish Cypriots, which were finally announced by the presidency last Friday, do not appear to have had the desired effect. If President Christodoulides’ intention ...

President announces digital app among more than 80 policies President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday announced plans to create a “digital citizen” mobile application, on which people can access government services. The ...

The auditor-general and the rector of the state-run Technical University of Cyprus (Tepak) traded more barbs on Monday, the former describing the university as a den of “decay”. Earlier in ...

The cost of compensating every single Greek Cypriot for every single piece of land lost in 1974 may top £22.4 billion (€26.3bn), former Immovable Property Commission (IPC) chairman Ayfer Said Erkmen has ...

Anaesthesiologists working at Makarios hospital are refusing to participate in some abortions citing religious reasons, it emerged in parliament on Monday. In a letter shared to the House human rights ...

The UN secretary-general’s personal envoy on Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin began her meetings on the island on Monday, discussing issues with Unficyp head Colin Stewart first. Holguin is set ...

Reactions to the suggestion of holding closed-door football matches may have been due to the particular wording of the proposal which will certainly undergo legal examination, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis ...

In the last ten days, police in the British Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) have arrested and fined three individuals a total of €4,500 for bird trapping violations. The arrests in the ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce (KEVE) on Monday praised the expansion of the product catalogue covered by the Green Line regulation but called on the government to address issues related ...

It took the death of a 45-year-old homeless woman in Limassol for many in Cyprus to wake up to the cold reality that hundreds are sleeping rough on the streets. ...

Theologian speaks out on endless display of saints’ relics in churches The veneration of the ‘remains’ of saints and items believed to have belonged to them is developing into a ...

The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin arrives in Cyprus on Sunday evening, according to the UN in Cyprus. This is Holguin’s first visit to ...

Three men arrested under suspicion of rioting during the Ael-Apollon match last earlier this week, were remanded for four days by the Limassol District Court on Sunday. According to police, ...

Israel was ordered to take all measures to prevent all genocidal acts, punish inciting genocide and allow humanitarian aid In a landmark ruling on Friday, the International Court of Justice (...

WEDNESDAY’S trouble at a Limassol football match came as a Godsend to the government, offering it an easy way to show some toughness and decisiveness that have been lacking ...

Maria Angela Holguin, the UN Secretary-General’s recently appointed envoy for the Cyprus problem arrives on the island on Monday and will have her first meetings on Tuesday. Greek Cypriots ...