#Cyprus

During his official visit to Cyprus, Estonian President Alar Karis disclosed plans to engage in discussions concerning the Cyprus problem with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan later this year. Karis ...

Around 250 seconded nurses are being forced to perform other duties in addition to or instead of their own jobs, leaving hospitals short of nurses, nurses’ union Pasyno chairman Christos Christodoulou ...

An action plan with dozens of measures to help third-country nationals legally residing in Cyprus integrate into the labour market and economy has been prepared, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou. Ioannou ...

The house of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios ethnological museum in Nicosia will close on Saturday due to emergency conservation works, the antiquities department announced on Friday. An ethnological officer told the Cyprus ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has invited Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to meet him in New York, the Cyprus Mail learned on Friday. High-level sources confirmed that the meeting ...

Police in Limassol arrested two men as suspects in a drug dealing bust after they were found with over 5kg of cannabis, authorities said on Friday. According to police, the ...

European parliament president Roberta Metsola is set to visit Larnaca port to oversee works being conducted for the Amalthea humanitarian aid corridor to Gaza, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

The division of Cyprus continues to hinder the full enjoyment of human rights by all persons throughout the island, the annual report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner ...

Employees of public broadcaster CyBC will be paid after April 1, its board of directors said on Friday. The board said payments would be made “immediately” after Monday’s public holiday, “...

Low-wage civil servants belonging to the Isotita union will go on a two-hour strike on Friday over delays in upgrading their pay grades. The strike will be held from 1pm ...

Controversial works regarding the building of a monastery in an environmentally sensitive area in Ayia Napa are being investigated, it emerged on Thursday. Speaking to CyBC, deputy environmental department director ...

Out-of-court fines for traffic violations will largely remain the same but offenders will have more time to pay them, according to tweaks to the legislation discussed in parliament on Thursday. ...

A total of 247 birds, all finches, were killed in a fire set on bird cages in the village of Mandres in the north. The cages were in the back garden ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday met with the advisory committee on tax reform, asking that progress on this matter be accelerated, in order to reap any benefits at the earliest ...

One in ten women of reproductive age suffer from endometriosis in Cyprus, Minister of Health Michael Damianos said. The condition affects the quality of life of millions of women worldwide ...

Turkish Cypriot authorities were criticised this week after Cameroonian anti-racism campaigner Emmanuel Achiri discovered he has been barred from going to the north, despite having lived there for almost a ...

The second ship tasked with transporting humanitarian aid to Gaza, called Jennifer, is scheduled to set sail by the end of the week, most likely on Saturday, weather conditions permitting, ...

The patients’ association (Osak) called on all state healthcare (Gesy) beneficiaries to activate their online medical profiles in an announcement on Thursday. The organisation called on the public to update ...

The 44-year-old driver of the double-cab involved in the quadruple fatal crash that occurred in the early hours of January 1, 2024 in Limassol, pled not guilty to any of the ten ...

Police officers are over-reliant on messaging application Viber due to the lack of an official electronic communication method, trade union Isotita’s police branch chairman Nikos Loizidis said on Thursday. ...

Close to two thirds of road fatalities in Cyprus happen in urban areas, figures from the road safety performance index showed on Thursday. According to the 46th Road Safety Performance ...

The US-built port in Gaza being constructed as part of the ‘Amalthea’ humanitarian sea corridor initiative, could be ready significantly before May 1, President Nikos Christodoulides, said on Thursday. Speaking at ...

The Supreme Court rejected a request from two Helios orphans seeking compensation from the government over the plane crash that killed their parents, it emerged on Wednesday. The case was ...

The Audit Office said on Wednesday the defence ministry is riddled with financial mismanagement, while the national guard is failing to follow correct safety guidelines and procedures. One of the ...