#Cyprus

By Iole Damaskinos and Nick Theodoulou The blockade of Larnaca’s marina by disgruntled boat owners over a dispute of the site’s operations has been lifted, but the union ...

The mother of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in Alassa back in 2005, slammed the authorities on Facebook on Tuesday in a post directly ...

Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz’s appeal hearing has been scheduled for May 9, following the Larnaca district court’s decision to approve Germany’s extradition request for him last week. Multiple ...

After almost two decades of the Annan Plan referendum on the Cyprus problem, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said that the Greek Cypriot side was rewarded for rejecting the plan, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is set to chair another meeting over the sanctions on Tuesday, broadening attendees to include professional bodies and regulators. Set to take begin at 10.30am at the ...

First Lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides and Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou, presented on Monday their common initiative to convert the Presidential Palace into a Zero Waste to Landfill building. The initiative ...

The list of consumer goods subject to reduced VAT – in some cases, zero per cent – should be ready within the next 14 days, the commerce minister said on Monday. Speaking to ...

Greek jets on Sunday were set to rescue a number of people from Sudan including Cypriots. Meanwhile British forces used the Akrotiri bases to coordinate operations evacuating British diplomats from ...

Police on Saturday night made an appeal to the public for information on the whereabouts of 31-year-old Angelos Perikleous who has been missing from his Limassol home for the past ...

Despite failed negotiation efforts for decades, President Nikos Christodoulides said Turkey’s elections may revive talks on the Cyprus problem. In an interview with Politico published on Saturday, the president ...

Supporting the vulnerable and low and middle-income groups is a priority, government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. “It is paramount at this time that we as a state, as ...

Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos is closely monitoring developments in Sudan and is staying informed of the situation, especially with regard to Cypriots living in the country, the Foreign Ministry ...

The effects of climate change in Cyprus are becoming all the more apparent, Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou said on Saturday, marking World Earth Day. “Protecting the environment should be a ...

A new bill approved by the council of ministers on Friday will aim to strengthen the public’s trust in tap water, Health Minister Popi Kanari said. Speaking after the ...

The cabinet on Friday approved an interior ministry proposal to review the criteria for the naturalisation of third country nationals. According to Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, the proposal is mainly ...

Deputy Minister for Culture Michalis Hatzigiannis on Friday attempted to give some kind of closure to a recent blunder by his office after an official post was made by his ...

The Open University of Cyprus said on Friday it was continuing to cooperate with authorities on the hack of its database, even after a first tranche of files were made ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said Cyprus needed to follow the examples of other European countries and that both sides of the divide need to learn and respect each other’...

The Union of Cypriot Pensioners (Ekysy) has called on the state to assist with the cost of medicines which are not covered by the national health care system (Gesy). The ...

Diabetes type 2 injectable, Ozempic, a drug not regulated by the national health scheme (Gesy) is in general shortage in Cyprus, as people rush to take part in an international weight ...

Hackers on Thursday made good on their threat to release a trove of personal data – potentially terabytes of it – grabbed from the Open University of Cyprus, after a deadline for ...

Prices for food and retail prices had a marked increase in March this year, with items such as water seeing a 12 per cent hike in the span of a month, ...

More than 4,000 accounts held by Russians in Cypriot banks could be closed over the next two months following the imposition of sanctions on a number of individuals in Cyprus, by ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari called the ongoing understaffing issues at the A&E department of the Paphos general hospital “unacceptable” following a three-hour work stoppage carried out by doctors ...