#Cyprus

At a time when the cruise tourism industry is showing amazing prospects around the world, the crisis that has erupted in neighbouring Israel is creating new factors, which may negatively ...

Refugees in Cyprus will only be eligible for the Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) once they have continuously lived in the Republic legally for five years, cabinet decided on Wednesday. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke at length with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and details are being hammered out so that Cyprus can be ready “when the time comes” to ...

The industrial dispute between low-wage civil servants and the government was settled “in the best possible way”, Finance Minister Permanent Secretary George Panteli said on Wednesday. Panteli was speaking after ...

Banks on Wednesday agreed to extend the foreclose freeze for primary properties but stressed it was the last time this would happen, urging government and parliament to find a solution ...

The north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek) on Tuesday night walked back plans to increase electricity tariffs by nearly a third, having announced the price hikes just hours earlier. The latest ...

The goal is to find common ground between both sides to reach an agreement on collective labour agreements for employees at the hospitals, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Tuesday. ...

The new judge on the case of the national guardsmen, Thanasis Nicolaou, suspected to have been murdered in 2005, said on Tuesday that she intends to have a speedy trial for ...

Trade unions agreed with the finance ministry on measures to deal with the issues of low-paid civil servants, representatives from the unions Peo, Sek, and Pasydy said on Tuesday. The ...

Police are investigating an attempted murder in Nicosia on Tuesday, after a man well known to authorities was shot in his home in Acropolis. According to police, Alexis Mavromichalis, aka ...

Long-term conflict in the Middle East could delay projects for the development of natural gas fields, experts said on Tuesday as others postulated that in the three to four years ...

Israel is conducting a just war which must be the last, in which Hamas must be eradicated, Israel’s ambassador to Cyprus Oren Anolik told the House foreign affairs committee ...

Young people in Cyprus are at the highest risk of experiencing severe material and social deprivation, state statistical service Cystat said on Tuesday. Their figures showed that in 2022, a total ...

The remains of a total of 14 people have been recovered so far this year in excavations carried out by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), it announced on Tuesday. According ...

The sports ethics committee’s report on the potential squandering of public money by the Olympic Committee (KOE) has been handed over to the attorney general’s office, it emerged ...

The government is working towards making Cyprus energy independent, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Tuesday. “The autonomy of a state is not only related with its finds and its ...

The man gunned down and murdered in broad daylight in Limassol on Monday had been struck by 10 bullets a post mortem showed on Tuesday after police said they were worried ...

New zero VAT relief measures go into action from Wednesday, the tax department reminded the public on Tuesday. The announced measure covers a list of items already previously assigned at ...

Cyprus has taken a slew of measures to prevent cyberattacks while tourism bodies are assessing how the loss of the Russian market and high risk surrounding the Israeli market can ...

Swords were drawn at the House human rights committee on Monday, after the justice ministry, legal service and former prison director Anna Aristotelous were called to answer why the late ...

Two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’ threw order papers at each other in ‘parliament’ on Monday as tensions rose in a debate over a budget for the Cyprus Turkish Dairy Industry Institution (...

Children who are not Greek Cypriots are more likely to be bullied in schools, according to the latest results of the government’s school violence survey. The results of the ...

Taxpayers’ money is being squandered as police officers have become “full time drivers” transporting people to available holding cells across the island, the police branch of the Isotita trade union ...

Man shot dead in Limassol By Nick Theodoulou Yermasogia awoke to a shocking gangster-like execution after a 55-year-old man was gunned down by two hooded attackers firing from a Kalashnikov ...