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The Paphos-Polis highway is the fourth public project this government has terminated because of major disputes with the contractor. Last year it pulled the plug on the waste treatment plant ...

Construction company Aktor (formerly Intrakat) is now seeking over €35 million in damages through the courts after the public works department terminated the contract with regarding the Paphos-Polis road project, according ...

The energy regulator said on Tuesday it will review data purporting to show how the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) could “trim the fat” and cut costs by up to 15 ...

A bill discussed at the House labour committee on Tuesday would change pensions given to widowers and see them brought in line with those given to widows. It was submitted ...

The town planning department on Tuesday signed a contract for the demolition of two apartment buildings in the government housing settlement of Platy in Aglandja, Nicosia, as part of the ...

He is one of the most famous composers of our time. His compositions are heard in the greatest music halls in the world and now, the chamber music studio The ...

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran will not be able to ignore its arch-foe the United States and needs to “handle its enemies with forbearance”, state media reported on ...

Thousands of students in Spain’s eastern Valencia region returned to classes this week, two weeks after floods killed over 200 people and devastated towns in the area. Controversy over the ...

To mark 180 years of service to the people of Larnaca, the Order of St Joseph of the Apparition is presenting a documentary highlighting its contribution to education in multilingualism and ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigned “in sorrow” on Tuesday, saying he had failed to ensure there was a proper investigation into allegations of abuse by a volunteer at Christian ...

Argentine club Deportivo Riestra were branded “shameful” and a “disgrace” after putting an influencer into the starting line-up for Monday’s top-flight game against leaders Velez Sarsfield before substituting him ...

MPs on Tuesday heard that thousands of cars installed with faulty airbags could make for a “ticking time bomb” while one former official called for such vehicles to be temporarily ...

A UK Cypriot woman has been stabbed to death in her London home as an NHS carer has been arrested on suspicion of killing her. Efthyia Constantinou, 62, hired Zaneta Peto, 55 ...

To coincide with the week of the German language, the technical and vocational school in Larnaca on Tuesday offered a German breakfast. The event was attended by Education Minister Athena ...

For the past decade, continual improvement has been a consistent theme in investment professional Levi Pettit’s educational and work pursuits. Pettit double-majored in finance and economics at the University ...

One in three people in Cyprus smoke, multinational tobacco company Philip Morris said on Tuesday presenting the results of its latest survey. It added that most of these smokers are ...

Turkish football club Ankaragucu have protested against their former president, Faruk Koca being sentenced to more than three years in prison for assaulting a referee last year, claiming the verdict ...

Cyprus Public Transport announced on Tuesday it has extended the hours of operation of the Pame express route from GSP into Nicosia. It has added to new times, at 7pm ...

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s incoming foreign policy chief, cautioned on Tuesday against making assumptions about what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump would do in Ukraine and warned that ...

After an almost two-year delay, the government announced on Tuesday the termination of an €8 million contract for the Liopetri River and fishing shelter project. Despite 22 months of extensions, progress on ...

Addressing the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday called for coordinated international action to tackle climate change. He emphasised that the need to urgently address ...

Six bus stops in the village of Athienou have been decorated with local embroidery designs, it was announced on Tuesday. Athienou municipality and the Larnaca tourism development company said the ...

The north’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached just over €3.6 billion at the end of 2023, the north’s statistics institute reported on Tuesday. That figure corresponds to a growth of 7.3 ...

Cyprus had the fourth largest consumption of plastic bags in the EU in 2022, according to data on lightweight plastic carrier bags (LPCBs) published by Eurostat on Tuesday. The figures reveal ...