#Cyprus

The government on Tuesday green-lit Cyprus’ participation in the Great Sea Interconnector – the commercial name for the mooted subsea electricity cable linking the island to Crete. The decision was announced ...

Final year students at the Laniteio lyceum staged a protest on Tuesday, boycotting the first two lessons of the day to express their dissatisfaction with the classroom conditions due to ...

A hearing against a German woman, 49, accused of usurping Greek Cypriot properties in the north was postponed on Tuesday for a week, so the defence can prepare their case. According ...

The British bases’ environmental experts recorded a total of 382 sea turtles on their beaches this year. They said the high number of turtles on the beaches is a result of ...

Things at Pentakomo waste management plant are getting worse by the day because the environment ministry and the involved departments are “refusing to take responsibility for their actions or inactions,” ...

The Vasiliko power plant’s capacity to withstand a terrorist attack was put to the test on Tuesday through the Triton 2024 exercise, involving the ports authority, the police, the fire ...

Cyprus’ Costas Kadis was named as European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans on Tuesday by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Von der Leyen announced the roles of her 26 ...

The first phase of the Paralimni marina is set to be completed by the end of the year, according to Paralimni-Deryneia mayor Giorgos Nikoletos, who visited the site on Monday. ...

The state health services (Okypy) appears to have shown blatant disregard for how it spends public funds, particularly by management who have booked fancy hotels and raked in plenty of ...

The cabinet will on Tuesday continue discussing the Great Sea Interconnector, as reports on Monday suggested the government is now grappling with the issue of whether the Cypriot state will ...

The cause of death of 43-year-old Alkis Michael, who died early on Sunday morning while driving away from the Limassol general hospital where he reported chest pain, has been preliminarily ...

US tax authorities are in Cyprus this week to provide training on financial investigations and forensic accounting, Ambassador Julie Fisher said on Monday. “Together, we’re strengthening efforts to combat ...

The replacement of naked electricity cables in the Paphos forest and improvements to the power system at the Stavros tis Psokas forestry station are proceeding according to the set timeframe, ...

Good news on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) front, but priority must now shift to implementing measures that will bring electricity prices down between now and 2030, when the GSI is ...

Clashes between Ael fans and police ahead of a highly anticipated but ‘high risk’ game with Apollon prompted authorities to call off the match. The decision was met with only ...

It is already evident that tables this year have not be laden with the green and burgundy varieties of sweet grapes we have been used to in Cyprus – another inconvenience ...

Cyprus ‘had no other choice’ but to bring in US experts to help with corruption-related investigations, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, as he announced a designated budget would go ...

If you live in a populated area, you will have seen or heard the laughing dove, the small lilac pigeon with a pinkish underside, which sounds as if it is ...

Former Green party member Efi Xanthou has joined Volt Cyprus, she announced on Saturday. “It’s time to get back in the game,” she said in a post on her ...

The public has largely responded to calls for blood donations, meaning available reserves should be back to normal next week, head of the blood bank Androula Panayiotou said on Saturday. ...

The fisheries department hit back on Saturday against an audit office report suggesting it may have squandered public funds as a result of an “unacceptable” tender process. A report has ...

The fire in Pissouri which broke out on Friday night burned 3.5 donums of wild shrub and olive trees, the forestry department said on Saturday. It took around four and a ...

The first of five Instagram spots aimed at offering idyllic backgrounds for pictures has been rolled out at Fig Tree Bay in Protaras, the municipality announced on Saturday. With a ...

Turkey is undermining efforts to resume negotiations by seeking a two-state solution on the island, Permanent Representative of Cyprus at the United Nations Maria Michail said in a letter to ...