#Cyprus

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting February 26: The Cyprus Marine Club (CMC), a renowned non-profit organisation that plays a pivotal role in bringing together ...

Social trust is Cyprus is low, with 65 per cent of people believing that caution should be exercised in interactions with others, the University of Cyprus revealed on Friday. Citing the ...

By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas Police were collecting testimony from partygoers in Limassol on Friday, where four armed robbers stole over €20,000 worth of money and items. Speaking to Cyprus ...

Attorney-General (AG) George Savvides on Friday hit back at what he called criticism after the legal service advised the Nicosia court to suspend the trial of a Turkish Cypriot lawyer ...

Parliament on Thursday night unanimously approved the budgets of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) and State Health Services (Okypy). Okypy’s total budget for 2024 foresees expenditure totalling at €761.8 million, and ...

European Union countries are negotiating exemptions for a proposed EU-wide tax on polluting aviation fuel for islands, in a move that could benefit countries such as Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, Spain ...

Serdar Denktash, son of late Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, said on Thursday the north should hold parallel ‘EU elections’ this June. Speaking to the north’s public broadcaster BRT, ...

Parliament on Thursday gave the nod to the establishment of a deputy ministry for migration and asylum, hailed by the interior minister as a “milestone” for the country. Creating the ...

Although the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) remains a profitable business concern, there is also an internal effort to “embellish” its image and to conceal serious problems, found a report released ...

Parliament is reviewing a legislative proposal allowing members of the public to introduce legislation if the proposal garners 5,000 signatures, an MP with the Diko party confirmed on Thursday. Speaking on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides can stop the state broadcaster (CyBC) from appealing a court decision to pay €1 million in damages to journalist Evdokia Loizou, her lawyer said on Thursday. The statements ...

A government move to grant 14 citizenships to Turkish Cypriots of mixed marriages was welcomed on Thursday by an NGO in battling for the citizenship rights. The NGO, the Mixed Marriage ...

President Nikos Christodoulides “is trying to look cute for Turkey”, Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar said on Thursday. Tatar was speaking to Kibris in reaction to comments from Christodoulides regarding ...

The justice ministry is forging ahead with the installation of a new system for deactivating mobile phones inside the Nicosia prisons in order to deal with the problem of organised ...

Applications for subsidised student accommodation within Nicosia’s walled city are now open, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. The project allows for financial assistance to property owners or tenants ...

By Tom Cleaver and Elias Hazou Trade unions held a protest outside the central prison on Thursday against what they described as the “dismissal” of 13 prison workers who had been ...

The attorney-general ordered on Thursday that the trial of Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat be suspended since the key witness in the case is dead. According to what was heard ...

Police in Nicosia on Wednesday night seized a large quantity of flares and fireworks in an open area in Strovolos. A search in the area uncovered cardboard boxes containing a ...

Police on Thursday are investigating an armed robbery in at a party in Limassol, from the night before, where four masked men made off with thousands of euros. According to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands in The Hague on Wednesday. The pair met at the Huis ten Bosch palace, where Christodoulides paid his respects and then ...

The death of Thanasis Nicolaou was a murder, and there is an ongoing conspiracy trying to cover this up by calling it a suicide, Limassol district court heard on Wednesday. ...

The British government sowed the seeds of discord between Greek and Turkish Cypriots while seeking to consolidate London’s power, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. “The ...

Greek Cypriots living in Rizokarpaso are being “used as political pawns” by the Republic’s government, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

The government on Wednesday hit back at criticism from the bar association and accountant’s association over the creation of a unified oversight authority, saying their outcry does not send ...