#Cyprus

Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said the blaze in the area of Alassa, near Limassol, has been contained, though a few flareups persist. “Aerial water drops are being carried out regularly ...

July 2023 broke multiple heat records as the Cleon weather system smothered Cyprus, leading to one of the warmest months with 16 days in a row of over 40oC degrees. The met ...

Electricity has been “almost completely restored” in the areas impacted by the fires in the Alassa region, according to the Cyprus Electricity Authority (EAC). They say that there are just ...

Milia Paidiou, understood to be Cyprus’ oldest woman according to the 2011 census, has passed away aged nearly 111. Born in Lefkoniko in 1912, Paidiou had four children, 11 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. ...

A prison warden has been put on leave pending an investigation after he was accused of leaving work while on shift to smuggle cigarettes from the north. Initial findings confirm ...

The Cyprus Post office warned on Monday that fraudulent SMS messages are being sent out en masse to trick people into handing over private information. The office explained that the ...

The state will be creating a temporary centre for migrants choosing to voluntarily leave Cyprus in the coming months, while the construction of the new reception centre in Limnes is ...

Build ‘em fast, build ‘em cheap, build ‘em high seems to be a once-sleepy village’s new mantra Anyone who has been near Trikomo in recent years will have noticed ...

Hunter trial has brought to the forefront what will be a heated debate in the House As parliament in Cyprus is set to reconvene again this autumn, a group of ...

Drivers are employing devious methods to avoid being fined for traffic violations Drivers are banding together to avoid the long lens of the law: social media groups are sharing the ...

Even though the final results of the successful appraisal drilling of the Aphrodite gasfield earlier this year have not yet been formally announced, development of Aphrodite appears to be getting ...

I wonder if you have heard of ‘Borrowing the landscape’! It’s a Japanese idea practised for centuries there and called ‘Shakkei’, where features such as far off mountains and ...

All efforts by President Nikos Christodoulides focus on lifting the prolonged deadlock on the island and on creating the conditions that will allow the resumption of peace talks under the ...

Finance minister has described Gesy as a ‘black hole’ of funds. He’s right By Brian Lait Gesy, the long awaited and much discussed Cyprus health scheme officially kicked off ...

In late July the government unveiled a plan for ‘a solar panel on every rooftop’, with the primary goal of driving down high electricity costs for households. It came on ...

Justice Minister Anna Procopiou requested the establishment of a committee to investigate possible disciplinary offences against the former drugs squad, Ykan, chief, Michalis Katsounotos, who had corruption allegations brought against ...

Alassa dam fire under control, serious flare-ups remain By Nikolaos Prakas A fire near the Alassa dam in Limassol that came close to homes in nearby villages has been extinguished, ...

The cost of holding an event at Ancient Curium has become prohibitive for cultural groups and yet is being rented out for weddings, the director of the well-established production company ...

High temperatures are the enemy of the electricity authority (EAC), spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulou said on Friday, noting that the heat causes damage to the network and underground cables causing power ...

People will be unable to be outside in the future due to the serious health problems and increase of deaths stemming from heatstroke, experts have warned as they called for ...

The national guard will continue its mission as the main defence force of Cyprus as long as part of the island’s territory is occupied by Turkey, Defence Minister Michalis ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has accused the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) of “twisting the truth” in its report of a recent interview they conducted with him. CNA reported Tatar ...

All welcome at anti-occupation events says Disy leader By Iole Damaskinos and Tom Cleaver Suleyman Ulucay, the Turkish Cypriot Famagusta mayor, has not yet decided on whether he will attend ...

Forty eight ‘positive searches’ of the Schengen Information System (SIS) database were conducted in its first week of access to the system, the justice ministry said on Friday. Cyprus was ...