#Cyprus

Naked and worn-out electricity cables running through forested areas are a significant cause of fires and that risk, as well as the risk from illegal rubbish dumps, has been predictable ...

Half of Cyprus’ beaches may disappear within the next 50 years due to rising sea levels, climate scientist Dr Giorgos Zittis from the Cyprus Institute has warned. “Sea level rise is ...

Driving up to the forestry service headquarters in late May it is easy to see why the former department director likened the Paphos forest to a church, with Stavros tis ...

Elia Herodotou was elected as Pera Pedi’s mukhtar at the second attempt on Sunday, after the originally scheduled election on June 9 ended in a tie. Herodotou, 25, won 71 votes, beating ...

El-Sen, the employers’ union of the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek, announced on Saturday night they had filed a complaint to the Turkish Cypriot police after police had prevented them ...

The amount invested in Cyprus’ green transition is estimated to reach €3.1 billion by 2030, the finance ministry said on Sunday. They said the investment would be sourced from state funds, European ...

A 49-year-old woman died on Sunday after being involved in a quadbike accident in the Paphos district village of Peyia. The woman was riding a quadbike on a country road ...

Highly respected environmentalist and journalist Martin Abbas Hellicar died on Saturday, aged 56. He passed away in hospital where he was being treated after sustaining serious injuries in a car accident ...

The police on Sunday announced that the upcoming week would be an “awareness week” for road safety, with a particular focus on driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. ...

Victims of last week’s fires in Paphos will start receiving compensation on Wednesday, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou announced on Saturday, following orders from President Nikos Christodoulides. Panayiotou stated that ...

A large fire broke out between the villages Fikardou and Farmakas, necessitating the intervention of five aircraft. Fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said that there are also trucks at the ...

Two police officers were suspended on Saturday during an investigation into the police response time related to the murder of a 41-year-old woman in Paphos. The disciplinary investigation involves seven ...

The biggest problem plaguing the legal service has been the attacks from the Audit Office, Attorney-General George Savvides told the Supreme Constitutional Court on Friday, on his third and last ...

Cyprus is in danger of creating a “digital divide” that leaves less tech-savvy groups such as the elderly and disabled behind in the race toward e-government services, the Commissioner for ...

Health ministry permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki was exonerated on Friday by the anti-corruption authority, which had investigated claims questioning her age and knowledge of the English language. According to an ...

This is the first time real planning has gone into the long-standing promise of successive governments to install air conditioning in schools, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday. An ...

The University of Nicosia Medical School on Friday announced that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), will be awarded an honorary doctorate at the Medical ...

Police on Friday were investigating the murder of 41-year-old Petya Krateva, after she was stabbed multiple times by her 48-year-old husband. The incident unfolded at around 10am when the two ...

University lecturer Nicholas A. Ioannides was on Friday appointed deputy minister of migration and international protection. A statement from government spokesman Constantinos Letymbiotis confirmed the appointment, the first-ever such position ...

Cyprus ranks first among EU countries for volunteer blood donations, First Lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides remarked in a speech on Wednesday. The speech was delivered in honour of the 20th ...

Hiccups should be expected once the new district-level organisations take over licensing for town planning and building, the interior minister said on Thursday. Constantinos Ioannou made the comments coming out ...

Israeli Simon Mistriel Aykut, the director of Afik Group, a property developer in the north, will remain in custody for an additional six days, as decided by the Nicosia District ...

Works are set to commence to replace potentially hazardous asbestos pipes in three sections of the critical Nicosia sewerage network known as ‘Trunk E’, the European Commission announced on Thursday. ...

Close to two dozen homes were affected by the two days of wildfires in the Paphos area, with the blazes destroying five homes completely, the deputy district governor of Paphos ...