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The Cyprus Architects’ Association on Friday called for an immediate re-evaluation of the construction being carried out in the Akamas area. They added that the competent ministries and all parties ...

Cyprus will face a shortage of doctors and nurses in five years, a capacity planning study from the health ministry showed, as most registered doctors are over the age of 41. ...

Reports on the cyber-attacks which hit the land registry, the University of Cyprus, and the Open University of Cyprus are expected to be completed within days, Data Protection Commissioner Irene ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, accompanied by his wife Philippa Karsera and Cypriot officials. Christodoulides and Pope Francis had a private meeting, followed by ...

Integration of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum is imperative to avoid serious future problems, Director of the Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare, Yiannis Nicolaides said. Addressing members of the House interior ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers gathered in front of northern Nicosia’s district court on Friday morning to protest against the criminal cases opened against 22 of their colleagues. Charges of “battering the ...

Bulldozers began knocking down the first of refugee buildings deemed inadequate on Friday, at the Apostolos Andreas estate in Latsia, Nicosia. The first demolitions were attended by Interior Minister Constantinos ...

Black Friday began just like any other day for retailers and consumers in Cyprus, with no significant increase in business. “This is just a normal Friday,” Employers and Industrialists Federation (...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Jonathan Shkurko A patient suspected of setting fire to his room at Athalassa psychiatric hospital is in serious condition in the Nicosia General intensive care unit (...

Members of the House health committee are set to send a letter to President Nikos Christodoulides requesting that €4 million be included in the state budget for 2024 to support relatives of ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari on Thursday stressed the need for comprehensive strategic planning and actions in healthcare, particularly focusing on mechanisms ensuring systematic supervision, recording, and evaluation. Speaking at a ...

A group of guards, who experienced salary reductions of up to €1,200 just before the Christmas season due to incomplete state examinations, asserts the deduction was “unlawful”. Approximately 60 guards, members of ...

The four suspects in the killing of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos will go on trial at the criminal court for premeditated murder on January 23, 2024, the Limassol district court ruled on Thursday. Kalogeropoulos, 55 ...

The House Transport Committee on Thursday discussed the possibility of reducing the time required for driving licence penalty points to expire, with the timeframe possibility set to be reduced from ...

Significant legal and staffing challenges are slowing down the creation of a deputy ministry for migration, which has been deemed an important move for Cyprus given the huge uptick in ...

A preliminary version of the EuroAsia Interconnector electricity interconnection project has been sent to the energy ministry and the final text of the study will be sent next week, Energy ...

Serdar Denktash, the son of late Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, said on Thursday that the north’s ‘government’ “has not done one good thing” during its time in office. “...

Akamas is a national project and not private property and the need for restoration of damages is urgent, Klitos Papastylianou, ex-scientific advisor for the Akamas special environmental assessment said on ...

The transport ministry on Thursday announced the purchase of 40 electric vehicles to be used for official government business. They said the vehicles will “meet the needs of various ministries, departments, ...

Cypriot MEPs said on Thursday the country had been dragged through the mud during a European Parliament plenary session which discussed the latest revelations by the Cyprus Confidential reports, linking ...

The state intends to help with repairs at the Hambis Printmaking Museum in Plataniskia with the consent of the lessors of the two adjacent properties, Limassol district administrator Marios Alexandrou ...

The attorney general (AG) dampened hopes for criminal convictions over sanctions evasion on Wednesday, after he told deputies those may be difficult to achieve but pledged there would be thorough ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver Contractor Cyfield announced that it would be stopping all works on the road network in the Akamas peninsula as of Wednesday until all issues ...

Europol on Wednesday launched a new campaign as part of ongoing investigations to find Europe’s most wanted fugitives, three of whom are wanted for crimes committed in Cyprus. The ...