#Cyprus

In the last seven months, a total of 4,000 irregular migrants have been deported from the breakaway state in the north, according to the “minister of the interior”, Ziya Ozturkler, Turkish ...

The scandal of mobile phone use in the Nicosia prison deepened this week as the company tasked with upgrading the system to deactivate phones said it had inadvertently reconnected some ...

The island’s social insurance service on Friday announced changes to social insurance contributions from January next year. According to the Social Insurance Laws of 2010-2022, as of January 2023, the ...

By Sarah Ktisti New turmoil and serious problems are afoot at Limassol port due to the tariff increases that the port’s managing companies have decided to impose, with exports ...

A dinner between President Nicos Anastasiades and Ersin Tatar is scheduled to take place at the end of January as Anastasiades’ term in power comes to a close and in ...

The state health services Okypy is doing everything possible to tackle the increasing number of children in hospital during the winter period, it said on Friday amid increasing unrest across ...

Outgoing US ambassador to Cyprus Judith Garber on Friday presented House President Annita Demetriou with a lunar sample collected 50 years ago during the United States’ Apollo 17 mission. The rock was ...

The public has been urged to register and get out to vote in the upcoming February presidential elections, as four candidates jointly issued the call. On Friday, four candidates – Nikos ...

Everything is ready for Sunday’s archbishop elections, the general commissioner for them Ioannis Charilaou said on Friday. Earlier in the day, ballot boxes were turned over those in charge ...

Larnaca on Friday joined the 200 Wolt drivers striking in Nicosia and Limassol, upping the pressure against the delivery company to change its working conditions. Drivers across three of the island’...

By Gina Agapiou and Jonathan Shkurko Cypriots will celebrate Christmas and New Year without Covid-19 restrictions for the first time since the pandemic outbreak on the island. Health ministry spokesman ...

Doctors at Paphos A&E went on a three-hour strike on Friday morning calling for “humane working conditions” saying they are short staffed. The department’s chief Neophyta Chrysanthou, ...

During the state budget debate, the Green Party, once again, tried to block the spending item for former presidents of the republic and former presidents of the legislature, that cover ...

Candidacies for the February 2023 presidential elections will be formally submitted on January 5, the interior ministry said on Thursday, while December 27 is the cutoff for registering in voter rolls. The ministry ...

Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced two men to three-and-half-years in prison having found them guilty of people smuggling. The defendants, aged 42 and 47, will begin serving their sentence immediately. The ...

Cyprus in 2020 ranked seventh highest in the EU in terms of the per capita production of municipal solid waste, according to just-released data. The Statistical Service said that in 2020, the ...

The debacle over the theatre production Around the World in 80 days continued on Thursday, with the education ministry questioning why an LGBTI+ message would be fit for children. The original ...

Strovolos municipality on Thursday denounced the destruction of the municipal park on Agiou Sergios Street (Dafni estate) by vandals and appealed for respect towards public property. In a statement the ...

Some 200 Wolt drivers were striking across Nicosia and Limassol on Thursday, over accusations they were being exploited and getting pay cuts amid increasing costs. Around 150 drivers in Nicosia have been ...

Renowned Cypriot artist Yiorgos Skotinos died at the age of 85 on Thursday after almost seven decades as a painter whose works had its roots in the country and its history. ...

As elections for the next prelate of the church draw near, the six main candidates and the church are preparing for Sunday’s vote, with the custodian of the throne ...

The Greens party expressed their outrage on Thursday over the findings of the auditor general’s report which stated that the forestry department grossly overpaid for firefighting helicopters. The party ...

Divisions have appeared in the government over Labour Minister Kyriakos Koushos’ handling of the threatened strike by EAC as he had reportedly failed to stick to what had been agreed ...

Cypriots remain amongst the most skeptical of the EU’s handling of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with 53 per cent approving overall of the bloc’s support for Kyiv. While ...