#Cyprus

The nursery and primary school in Kormakitis, the Maronite village in the north, will reopen in September for the beginning of the academic year, Education Minister Athina Michaelidou said on ...

A number of human traffickers will be jailed for a combined total of three years for attempting to smuggle Middle Eastern and African nationals into Cyprus through the Sovereign Base ...

Excavators and fire engines might be able to start working on dealing with flare-ups and burning recyclable material on Thursday, fire services spokesman Andreas Kettis said, four days after a ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos told British MPs and lords that “we are ready to return to the negotiating table tomorrow and we are waiting for the other side [the north] ...

Of late, it seems, there have been a spate of environmental atrocities beyond what even the most jaded among us can bear to witness. Those of us who still somehow ...

Soaring temperatures are continuing across Cyprus, with the met office issuing yet another yellow warning for extreme heat until 6pm on Wednesday. Meanwhile the risk of fires is on red ...

Reports on Tuesday that the businessman who aims to rent out hotels in occupied Varosha by 2025 – with dubious chances of success, at best – got even stranger: reservations can be made ...

The interior ministry is looking to rationalise the rental practices of Turkish Cypriot properties on Mackenzie beach in Larnaca, where holders have been paying very low rent for years. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday that a tentative yes was received from the Turkish Cypriot side for a joint meeting at the anthropological lab of the committee of missing ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday confirmed reports that the EuroAsia Interconnector has run into trouble due to financing issues, but sought to downplay speculation that the project could be ...

The European Commission has sent a “reasoned opinion” to Cyprus, criticising the government for failing to meet EU standards on accessibility for disabled people. Cyprus was one of five member- ...

While the prices of basic consumer goods have generally sharply increased in the past year, some have started to decrease in the past month, according to the latest report by ...

The Committee of Missing Persons (CMP) operations are not under threat, the organisation announced on Tuesday, a week after reports came out that funding from one of their donor countries ...

A growing number of citizens groups have pressed for a reinstatement of electricity subsidies in the midst of the ongoing heatwave but the official line, that state finances permit only ...

The Greens said on Tuesday that the state is obliged to relocate heavy industry away from residential areas, but others argue that the issue has been exacerbated by people building ...

Cyprus aims to solve its energy storage problem within the next 18 to 24 months, so that the energy generated from renewables doesn’t go to waste, the energy minister said on ...

The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against Cyprus for the latter’s failure to correctly transpose the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive. The letter of formal notice to Cyprus is ...

Opposition Akel on Monday said it will hand over material to the independent anti-corruption authority regarding the use of spyware, vowing not to drop the issue until some accountability has ...

A four-year-old child was found dead in a swimming pool at a hotel in Ayia Napa on Monday. According to police, the child was on holiday in Cyprus with his ...

A 103-person lawsuit against the state for its Covid policy was rejected at Nicosia district court on procedural grounds, it emerged on Monday. The lawsuit named the attorney-general, former Health ...

Temperatures over 40 degrees C are expected to bake the island until Thursday, the director of the meteorological service Kleanthis Nicolaides said on Monday, as the office issued a yellow weather ...

Air quality had reverted back to normal levels on Monday afternoon in Geri, after a recycling plant in the area burned to the ground. Earlier in the day, the labour ...

Staff are feverishly preparing for the new school year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said, explaining that the summer months are especially important to prepare for all the new changes ahead. ...

Architects resign as harbour revamp months behind and contract not followed A baffling combination of incompetence and lack of coordination and controls in the renovation and restoration project of the ...