#Cyprus

The situation for prisoners has deteriorated since 2017, while the Nicosia central prisons are “bursting at the seams”, an anti-torture report published on Friday revealed. Concerns were raised in the Council ...

Natural Gas Infrastructure Company (Etyfa) on Friday slammed what it called the “unfortunate and desperate attempt” by the consortium constructing the beleaguered natural gas terminal at Vasiliko to “mislead public ...

Cyprus is “not alone” on the matter of migration, Greek Migration Minister Dimitris Kairidis said on Friday. Speaking to journalists after an inter-ministerial summit held by representatives of the two ...

People sent to Pournara migrant reception centre were placed in containers without electricity or hot water, crammed next to each other “like sardines, in unhygienic conditions,” the Council of Europe’...

The interior ministries of eight European Union member states took a joint stance on migration and the state of Syria following a meeting in Nicosia on Friday. The ministries of ...

Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides on Friday morning filed opposition proceedings against the legal service’s motion to have him suspended from his post. The first hearing will take place on ...

The Cypriot Union of Consumers and Quality of Life has warned consumers about purchasing items from the internet platform Temu, which it says does not respect European consumer safety legislation. “...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou has rubbished an alleged proposal by far-right Elam to give passports to migrants so they would leave the country. Elam has denied saying any such thing, ...

Schools across Cyprus received bomb threats by email on Friday morning. The bomb threats are so far believed to be hoaxes, though some schools immediately took measures and evacuated children ...

Cyprus will on Friday host an international meeting of interior ministers to discuss the matter of migration, with a particular emphasis on Cyprus’ plan to declare parts of Syria safe ...

A new system deactivating mobile phones in the immediate vicinity of the central prisons will be installed and go operational one-and-a-half years from now, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis told MPs ...

The Legal Service has no intention to challenge the court verdict on Thanasis Nicolaou that ruled he was strangled, it emerged on Thursday. Sources from the service said they were ...

A UK shipment of nearly 100 tonnes of aid has left Cyprus bound for a new temporary pier in Gaza, the British Foreign Office said in a statement on Wednesday. Meanwhile, ...

The Legal Service and the Anti-Corruption Authority found themselves embroiled in conflict with one another on Wednesday over the former’s decision not to prosecute former police drug squad chief ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said two independent criminal investigators will be appointed to shed light on national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou’s case after an inquiry into his death ruled ...

Most young Cypriots who will not vote in the upcoming European elections say they have no trust in the political system, a Eurobarometer survey revealed on Tuesday. Cyprus has the ...

The divide between UNSG envoy Maria Angela Holguin and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar became increasingly evident on Tuesday, when both went public with their grievances against each other. Holguin, ...

MPs on Tuesday decided to rush through the plenum this week a bill extending a grace period for hotels to obtain a full operating license, as at the moment more ...

Ayia Napa Mayor Christos Zannettou has been accused of unlawfully securing a €765,000 European grant for a hotel renovation project in which he held a stake. The mayor finds himself entangled ...

It is not at all clear whether the efforts of the UNSG’s personal envoy spell the “beginning of a solution or the beginning of the end” for the Cyprus ...

The Nicosia sewerage board is currently under scrutiny by independent authorities for alleged mismanagement, misuse of public funds, abuse of power, corruption, employee exploitation and workplace bullying. Investigations are focusing ...

The first results of the cost-benefit study requested by the energy ministry for the Greece-Cyprus Great Sea Interconnector electricity project are anticipated to be unveiled by the end of May, ...

The government was in contact with Lebanese authorities on Tuesday over statements made by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who called on Lebanon to “open the sea” so that Syrian migrants ...

Larnaca municipality on Monday called on the transport minister to formally brief them about the status of the local marina and port development project – which hangs in the balance due ...