#Cyprus

A little over €11 million of taxpayer money will be divvied up among political parties for their expenses for fiscal year 2024, some €4.7 million of which going to the salaries of personal ...

Nicosia municipality on Tuesday announced that as part of its efforts to develop an integrated programme to provide quality parking services to people with disabilities, it will be offering 30 free ...

Tickets to a World Cup football match, stroopwafels, a jaffa brownie and a €300 porcelain vase were among the gifts in the last twelve months declared by just six MPs. The ...

The public is being urged to buy real Christmas trees this year, as the forestry department on Monday launched a campaign to sell potted pines as a more ecological method ...

The government has given energy giant Chevron until Friday to put its position in writing concerning the commercial development of the offshore Aphrodite gas field, the energy minister revealed on ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar said on Monday that “as a respected state, the United Kingdom should not support such a genocide,” referring to reports of the British bases being ...

A Larnaca cardiologist suspected of issuing fake Covid-19 vaccine certificates has been called to testify in Larnaca Criminal Court, it was announced on Monday. The doctor, now 55, had issued fake ...

The interior ministry on Monday presented the House finance committee with a budget more than 10 per cent higher than the year before, with its main focuses on housing policies, dealing ...

Power has been fully restored across Cyprus following the recent outages caused by adverse weather conditions and strong winds, the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) spokesperson Christina Papadopoulou told the ...

Navigating the complex interplay of geopolitics and geoeconomics By Panayiotis Tilliros The world is currently witnessing a tumultuous period marked by three significant wars that have far-reaching geopolitical, geoeconomic and ...

The government has allocated €11.2 million in the 2024 state budget for the purchase and lease of firefighting aircraft, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Sunday. The money will go towards the ...

People belonging to vulnerable groups should stay indoors, the Labour inspection department said on Sunday, as high concentrations of dust have been detected in Cyprus’ air. The department also urged ...

Akel members have approved four changes to the party’s structure aimed at modernising the party. With the relevant motions having been approved by a majority of the more than 1,000 ...

Giorgos Perdikis has told Green Party members “for God’s sake come and talk to me about it” if they have a problem with how the party is being run ...

The government attaches great importance to the promotion and strengthening of rural areas and mountain villages, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Sunday. Ioannou was speaking at the opening of ...

‘Given Akrotiri’s size, capacity and proximity to the Middle East, it’s hardly a far-fetched hypothesis’ Both Nicosia and London have denied the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) on the ...

A lifelong dedication to all things green has paid off with a healthy basil plant over 2.5 metres tall Yiannakis Ioannou, a seasoned gardener with a lifelong passion for nurturing nature’...

A Greek Cypriot woman appeared in court in the north on Saturday, accused of robbing the Erulku supermarket in Neo Chorio. According to the Turkish Cypriot police, the woman entered ...

The beginning of a solution or the beginning of the end for the Cyprus problem? By Averof Neophytou The war in Ukraine has already taken a back seat as international ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is set to embark on an official visit to Qatar, with the focus resting on critical discussions surrounding the Middle East affairs, the ongoing Cyprus issue, and ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides on Saturday released a statement marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, underlining how many women around the world are the subject of ...

One of the largest blood donation drives in Cyprus took place today, under the auspices of the First Lady, Philipa Karsera Christodoulides, at the Paphos Blood Centre, located on Vasileos ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Saturday stated that both the Cypriot government and Chevron are highly optimistic that they will come to a mutually accepted plan over the Aphrodite gas ...

Dates were set on Friday for the testimony of witnesses in the investigation of the death of National Guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in ...