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A woman whose ten-year-old daughter drowned in a swimming pool in Paphos admitted on Wednesday to the charge of causing death by negligence. The 42-year-old mother appeared on Tuesday before ...

A new war of words among institutions has broken out, after the chief of police has refused to provide auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides with data concerning unpaid fines and permits to ...

After Friday night’s violent riot in Limassol, President Nikos Christodoulides called a meeting at the presidential palace the next day to discuss the ineptitude of the policing. The meeting, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said he had “nothing to say” when asked if Cyprus’ police chief and justice minister had tendered their resignations, following widespread condemnation for police inaction ...

The government is working to highlight Cyprus as an unattractive destination for migration, ministers told the ad hoc House committee on demographics on Tuesday. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said within ...

Despite catching most observers off guard, the decision to include India in trilateral meetings between Cyprus, Greece and Israel has long been in the pipeline, the foreign ministry confirmed on ...

An anti-migrant protest set to take place outside the presidential palace on Wednesday was cancelled on Tuesday with organisers saying an “out of control” situation would have sent the wrong ...

The attorney general on Tuesday ordered a police investigation after a Limassol municipal councillor was caught on video during Friday’s anti-migrant protest saying he would kill any delivery driver ...

The first case of West Nile virus in Cyprus this year was confirmed by the health authorities on Tuesday. But there is no cause for concern on the island, despite ...

Police will be held accountable no matter their ranking in the force’s hierarchy, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. He was speaking on CyBC’s morning radio, in ...

Cyprus and Greece are likely to face increased migration activity from Turkey in the period 2023-2024, although a drop was noted in the first months of the year, the EU ...

The independent anti-corruption authority will this week begin work on two cases it has prioritised, one of which may involve deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides, it emerged on Monday. The Cyprus ...

The ninth tripartite alliance summit of Cyprus, Greece and Israel was held in Nicosia on Monday. President Nicos Christodoulides and prime ministers Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Benjamin Netanyahu reconfirmed their commitment ...

By Tom Cleaver and Andria Kades More than 1,000 people from all over Cyprus descended on Limassol on Monday evening to attend an anti-fascist protest organised by Akel. The protest was ...

Calls for the resignation of Cyprus’ police chief and justice minister were still on the table on Monday, as the police’s widely condemned failure to deal with Friday’s ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari has thrown her support behind a plan to transfer the process of sending patients abroad to the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO). Speaking after a meeting of ...

Following three-way talks at the presidential palace on Monday, President Nikos Christodoulides, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis reaffirmed their commitment to reinforce their cooperation in energy. “...

The Cyprus economy would collapse if it weren’t for migrant workers, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Monday as they comprise nearly a quarter of the workforce. A total ...

Calls on politicians not to pander to racists for votes The attacks on migrants and their properties in Chlorakas a week ago by thugs was a direct consequence of the ...

Cyprus has received a demarche from an Arabian Gulf nation, after it emerged that far-right protestors attacked a tourist from their country, the permanent secretary of the foreign affairs ministry ...

President Nikos Christodoulides, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday referred to the benefits of the bilateral cooperation between Cyprus and Israel, after a bilateral meeting. Christodoulides thanked the ...

IN KYPROULLA we have managed to give overt racists a veneer of respectability by referring to them as ‘anti-migration’ activists and their violent, hate-filled protests as ‘anti-migration’ gatherings. Theirs is ...

Foreign nationals on Limassol’s beachfront may have been targeted for their skin colour on Friday night, but by Saturday morning they pledged they would not let the violence scare ...

An emergency meeting convened by President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday acknowledged the police’s failure to contain the far-right racist attacks that erupted in Limassol the previous night. In hours ...