#Cyprus

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 ...

Personnel at Pournara migrant reception centre will be increased to accelerate the asylum application processing time, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday. In a statement issued after a meeting ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos met his Palestinian counterpart Riyad Al-Maliki and other Palestinian officials in Ramallah on Monday. The meeting took place “in the light of concerning developments in the ...

Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca are all jostling to follow in Paphos’ footsteps In the wake of Paphos’ remarkable achievement in 2017, when the city took the spotlight as a European Capital ...

That’s the official line, but the results remain to be seen Big changes are coming down the pipe next year in terms of how people interact with their local ...

The new UN envoy to Cyprus should be seen as the last chance to solve the Cyprus problem, as the island’s division is becoming more entrenched with time, UN ...

Oxi Day was celebrated on Saturday morning with a parade through the streets of Cyprus’ towns and cities. Schoolchildren, soldiers and others in traditional Greek dress walked to the sound ...

Cyprus abstained on Friday night from a United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution calling for a “sustained humanitarian truce in the Middle East”. The resolution was adopted by ...

By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas Hundreds of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of northern Nicosia on Friday evening in a mass anti-‘government’ protest. The protest was general ...

A 36-year-old man in Paphos is in the intensive care unit at Paphos general, after being stabbed by a 61-year-old man, police said on Friday. Police said that the victim, ...

Employees at the social welfare offices are going on a 24-hour ‘warning strike’ on Tuesday over government plans to restructure the department. In an announcement on Friday, Pasydy union said ...

Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said on Friday that children should defend the values of fair play, as football is a sport that promotes health and noble competition, and not “war”. ...

Cultural heritage “must be passed down from generation to generation”, Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said on Friday. Kassianidou was speaking at an event honouring the Fervolites lace held by ...