#Cyprus

The house interior committee decided on Thursday that they would prepare a special report on the Ammos tou Kambouri beach in Ayia Napa, where construction works over the past years ...

Cyprus has ramped up its returns of irregular migrants this year with over 4,370 repatriated so far – compared to 2,353 last year, according to Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou. He met senior European ...

Those crossing to the north with the sole purpose of filling up their cars with petrol face a fine of €4 per litre, a customs department official said Thursday. Customs department ...

Two unions are planning to hold a protest outside City of Dreams Mediterranean casino resort in Zakaki next Tuesday, a day after its official opening. Following the casino’s opening ...

The Larnaca-based British University of Cyprus promotes social responsibility in sports with a joint leadership of Unesco chair on governance and social responsibility in sport. The Cyprus campus of the ...

By Nick Theodoulou and Elias Hazou The House on Thursday passed two of four legislative proposals amending the foreclosures framework, but decided to postpone voting on the controversial bill that ...

Cyprus must strengthen the independence and accountability of the prosecution service, especially regarding its ability to discontinue or suspend prosecutions, the European Commission said in its Rule of Law report ...

The House legal affairs committee on Wednesday reached consensus on a draft bill to ban revenge pornography, as it has been regulated in most of the EU, while Cyprus is ...

The scientific and technical chamber (Etek) has expressed its concerns regarding the tendering process of public works. They have said that the process as it currently stands is vulnerable to ...

Foreign students in Cyprus from the end of October 2022 will be allowed to take on work Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Wednesday. Speaking to CyBC in the morning, the ...

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu issued a second condemnation of British High Commissioner Irfan Siddiq on Wednesday, following the latter’s alleged comments at a meeting with British ...

CYPRUS has bucked a Europe-wide trend of increased consumption of illicit cigarettes, according to the latest annual study into the matter by the audit and tax service company KPMG. In ...

The police on Wednesday sought to address the public’s complaints over mobile camera units and said the locations may be announced via an app. Police spokesman Christos Andreou said ...

MPs on Tuesday were considering the approval of a €345,000 supplementary budget to compensate an American citizen of Turkish Cypriot origin for loss of use of his property where a petrol ...

Attracting productive direct investments in our country is of paramount importance for the Government, Cyprus’ President Nikos Christodoulides said in his address at the 11th Invest Cyprus International Investments Awards ...

The death of six-year-old girl, who was critically injured during a jet-ski accident at Lady’s Mile over the weekend, was attributed to a severe head injury, state pathologists said ...

Authorities in the north have called for the establishment of an Azerbaijani ‘embassy’ in an effort to establish diplomatic relations, Turkish Cypriot media said on Tuesday. The chairman of the “...

Important step forward would be agreement on a UN envoy The leaders of the two sides should promote more contact and cooperation as well as the opening of more crossing ...

The Department of Environment is investigating a suspected scam where contaminated vegetable compost (fertilizer) may have been supplied to farmers, officials said on Tuesday. The suspected fraud and potential embezzlement ...

Digitisation long overdue for Cyprus justice system Proper reforms are needed to ensure justice is properly served in Cyprus, European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said on Tuesday, ahead of ...

The environment department on Tuesday said it has requested additional information about the environmental impact of a private solar thermal power plant project in Alambra and Ayia Varvara after the ...

Trade union Isotita confirmed on Tuesday that some police officers who were given guns for their own personal protection while off duty have since been asked to hand them in. ...

Lawmakers have postponed discussion of a bill regulating the issuing of title deeds to people living in refugee housing estates until September following a clash between MPs and the interior ...

Applications for Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) can now be filed online, the government said on Tuesday. Deputy minister for social welfare Marilena Evangelou was speaking at the House labour committee. ...