#Cyprus

The government will resort to the Legal Service if the consortium in charge of developing Larnaca’s port and marina fails to make the financial guarantee payment by the end ...

A National Council meeting will take place on Friday, where President Nikos Christodoulides is expected to brief party leaders on the latest developments over the Cyprus problem. Government spokesman Konstantinos ...

Cypriot consumers should not pay anything for the Great Sea Interconnector until the project is up and running, the energy minister asserted on Monday. “It’s a matter of principle,” ...

The archaeological site at the Paphos gate on the western edge of Nicosia’s walled city is now open for visitors. “Through the antiquities department’s excavations in the area, ...

The Audit Office on Monday moved to report the Legal Service to the European Commission and the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (Intosai) amid allegations of threats, revenge, and ...

Promotions in the civil service will be done in two different ways, due to problems that came up after the introduction of a new evaluation system, stakeholders seemed to agree ...

The deputy ministry of tourism has created an augmented reality app that uses dragons and other mythical characters to take users on a fantastical virtual tour of 20 Cypriot villages. The ...

Archbishop Georgios said on Monday he did not know when investigations on the Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal would reap any results, but all efforts were geared towards unravelling the case. ...

Health Minister Michael Damianos pledged on Monday to get to the bottom of the medicine scandal investigation, which cost the government €850,000 with hundreds of pharmaceuticals completely destroyed. In an interview ...

The Greek Cypriot side has a specific plan for how positive conditions could be created for everyone involved in efforts for a Cyprus solution, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. ...

Fines have been imposed on 16 shipowners over the last 10 years for pollution caused by oil, illegal discharge of sewage and illegal cleaning of vessels without obtaining approval from the Cyprus ...

Burger King in the UK has announced that it will be filling the gap left by McDonald’s when it decided to discontinue it’s halloumi fries, the rival chain ...

Concerns were raised over the weekend over Cyprus’ burgeoning porn industry, with an investigation set to be launched by parliament. Akel MP Nikos Kettiros told newspaper Politis on Saturday that ...

Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting April 15: In recent developments from Cyprus, Marinos Christodoulides, President of the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE), emphasised the significance ...

Action will be taken over the way a prisoner escaped jail, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Saturday. He noted that at first glance, it seems there were security oversights. ...

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Nicosia on Saturday in a peaceful demonstration for equal rights covering all migrants living in Cyprus. The protest at Eleftheria square was ...

Evripidis Mouxouris, the oldest Cypriot veteran in Australia at 103 years old, will lead the march on Anzac Day this Thursday. Originally from Morphou village, Mouxouris moved to Sydney after the 1974 ...

United Nations Envoy Maria Angela Holguin will return to Cyprus at the beginning of May, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. Speaking to journalists on the matter, he said ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeadis on Friday said the contractor company’s guarantee for the unified development of the Larnaca Port and Marina has not yet been received. He noted that ...

Police chief Stelios Papatheodorou on Friday requested a factual report to shed light on the events that led to the escape of a prisoner detained in a drug possession case. ...

Deputy Minister for Tourism Costas Koumis said he is optimistic that tourist arrivals in 2024 will equal the numbers registered last year, despite geopolitical crisis marking the region. Opening the Cyprus ...

Under the Commonwealth Blue Charter, Cyprus is the champion country for Sustainable Aquaculture, stated Patricia Scotland, the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, on Friday. She noted that the Commonwealth has the ...

Around ten EU member states are in agreement with Cyprus regarding the reclassification of certain areas in Syria from unsafe to safe, according to sources cited by the Cyprus News ...

Hellenic Bank and bank workers’ union (Etyk) clinched a deal over collective agreements on Friday, after a government-supported mediation process. Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou heralded the development “after a long ...