#Cyprus

A strategic leadership programme is to be held at the ministry of defence in collaboration with the UK, it was announced on Tuesday. The UK High Commission in Cyprus, the ...

The House finance committee on Monday approved the release of €1.04 million for the procurement of services from the anti-corruption authority. The amount concerns the purchase of services from experts for ...

The DNA evidence for two defendants in the Ayia Napa gang rape trial was thrown out during a hearing at Famagusta criminal court on Monday. As such, their trial will ...

Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are impacting Cyprus, leaving stakeholders increasingly concerned, director general of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber Thomas Kazakos said on Monday. During a press conference, he ...

The auditor-general and the rector of the state-run Technical University of Cyprus (Tepak) traded more barbs on Monday, the former describing the university as a den of “decay”. Earlier in ...

The cost of compensating every single Greek Cypriot for every single piece of land lost in 1974 may top £22.4 billion (€26.3bn), former Immovable Property Commission (IPC) chairman Ayfer Said Erkmen has ...

Turkish Cypriot CTP party leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday it is the of children of mixed marriages to gain citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus and should not be ...

Reactions to the suggestion of holding closed-door football matches may have been due to the particular wording of the proposal which will certainly undergo legal examination, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis ...

In the last ten days, police in the British Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) have arrested and fined three individuals a total of €4,500 for bird trapping violations. The arrests in the ...

Applications opened on Monday for the annual Bi-Communal Entrepreneurship prizes at the Stelios Bi-communal Business Cooperation Awards, given to Greek and Turkish Cypriots who work together. The annual prizes, now ...

The children rescued from a migrant boat are now in a better condition, though they are still being treated at Makarios hospital, the state health services (Okypy) said on Monday. ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce (KEVE) on Monday praised the expansion of the product catalogue covered by the Green Line regulation but called on the government to address issues related ...

It took the death of a 45-year-old homeless woman in Limassol for many in Cyprus to wake up to the cold reality that hundreds are sleeping rough on the streets. ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Constantinos Kombos said he held positive and forward looking discussions in Muscat, Oman on Sunday. In a post on X, he said he was “delighted” to meet ...

Theologian speaks out on endless display of saints’ relics in churches The veneration of the ‘remains’ of saints and items believed to have belonged to them is developing into a ...

Residents of Konia in Paphos demonstrated on Sunday calling for a 5G tower to be removed from their area. The protest was organised outside the village’s primary school. Participants ...

Child sponsors who reflected on meeting the children they have been supporting in Kenya said they are deeply grateful for their life-changing experience. ActionAid, the charity organisation fighting poverty, shared ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The calendar marked December 10, 2023 when, having just won the election based on an extreme “liberal” agenda, the economist Javier Milei entered the office of ...

Three men arrested under suspicion of rioting during the Ael-Apollon match last earlier this week, were remanded for four days by the Limassol District Court on Sunday. According to police, ...

A huge police presence presided over the memorial service for controversial Eoka General Georgios Grivas on Sunday, to avoid protests and rioting. Over 200 officers were called in, along with the ...

Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said that there is a new period for the Cyprus problem with sincere political will, attending a church service on Sunday. She added that the ...

By Stephania Xenophontos The growing intrusion of social media into the political scene has helped to undermine the sustenance of democracy. Although, in essence, politics is a constant competition where ...

An elderly woman was injured in a fire at her home in a Paphos village on Sunday, the fire service said, announcing they had put out the blaze. According to ...

Police conducted a raid on the central prisons on Sunday morning, to find information in relation to the case of prosecutor’s car set on fire a few weeks ago. ...