#Cyprus

The impact of Turkey’s economic embargo on the Republic of Cyprus amounts to around one percentage point of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually. According to the data collected ...

We have been hearing about the EuroAsia Interconnector that will connect Cyprus to the power grids of Israel and Greece via submarine power cable, for more than 10 years. A project ...

Taxpayers can now pay any tax arrears online after submitting their returns electronically, tax inspector Soteris Markidis said on Saturday after 11,500 individuals submitted their declarations for 2022. As of Friday, some 16,000 ...

Specific areas in Nicosia and Limassol were left without power on Saturday early afternoon due to electricity authority fault, as temperatures hit 42C. The fault, recorded a few minutes before 3...

US Senator Robert Menendez has introduced an amendment to the US National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) that seeks to extend the present one-year renewal period on arms sales to the ...

The fires in Attica, Greece, where the Cypriot Forestry Department is operating is so far under control, a member of the team said on Saturday. Forestry officer Stavros Mouchlis said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to Rome on Sunday, following an invitation by the Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, to participate in the International Conference on Migration and Development, the ...

The Independent trade unions federation (Poaso) has called on the government to implement a windfall tax on profits from renewable energy sources. They say that the proceeds from the tax ...

Scheduled roadworks are expected to affect traffic over the weekend. According to an announcement by the Department of Public Works, on Saturday, between the hours of 5 and 9am, works will ...

The US State Department on Friday expressed opposition to the partition solution promoted by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for Cyprus. According to Cybc, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, responding ...

President Nicos Christodoulides said on Friday that he plans to appoint an advisor for the promotion of multiculturalism, acceptance and respect for diversity. Addressing the 7th Youth Summit of European ...

Two people were hospitalised with heat stroke at Limassol General Hospital on Friday. Cybc reported that one individual affected has been intubated in the Intensive Care Unit. According to an ...

Firefighters in Paphos safeguarded homes from a fire that broke out on Friday near the community of Polemi in Paphos. According to the Cyprus News Agency (Cna), local’s homes ...

A plan for a 12 per cent early retirement adjustment will be presented next week, Minister of Labour Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday after a meeting with the Labour Council. The ...

Non-EU countries must be more proactive in their cooperation with repatriating irregular migrants that arrive at the bloc, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said during an EU meeting. Speaking at the ...

The only way to revoke the yellow slip (MEU1 visa) given to Israeli national with an EU passport Yaacov Afik, who is building massive developments on Greek Cypriot land in ...

Cyprus Airways, the island’s flag-carrier airline, unveiled its two new Airbus A220 aircraft at a ceremony at Larnaca airport on Friday. The A220 is the smallest aircraft in Airbus’...

Two firefighting aircraft departed Cyprus for Greece on Friday morning with the aim of helping to fight the country’s forest fires. The Air Tractor-type planes, which belong to the ...

After 19 months in prison, David Hunter is expected to hear the verdict from a three-panel judge today, over the killing of his wife Janice who was suffering from cancer, which ...

An autopsy on Friday confirmed that drowning was the cause of death of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead at the bottom of a pool at a villa in ...

A four-year-old girl who fell three and a half metres from a balcony in Paphos is in a serious condition and is being treated in hospital for a fractured skull. ...

House Speaker Annita Demetriou on Thursday emphasised the urgency of addressing the fate of missing persons in Cyprus and called for pressure to be exerted on Turkey to allow access ...

A scheme for the installation of PV hybrid systems for residential units will be rolled out likely in September, the energy minister said Thursday, explaining that anyone can apply for ...

Only around half of vulnerable individuals eligible for a reduced price for their electricity bill, have actually applied to be part of the scheme, the electricity authority (EAC) said on ...