#Cyprus

The education ministry said on Friday it was looking into a racist attack on a Congolese student at a gymnasium in Larnaca, where classmates threw schoolbags and a chair at ...

Five covid deaths and 1,701 infections were recorded in the last week, the health ministry said on Friday. At the same time, 44 covid patients being treated in hospital. Nine of these ...

The government will submit proposals in two to three weeks for an upgraded student evaluation system Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday, following a week of contradicting statements about ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides hauled the University of Cyprus over the coals on Thursday, flagging a series of irregularities – including their keeping on the payroll a Nobel laureate past his retirement. ...

Greece on Thursday reiterated its “unequivocal support” to efforts for a just and viable settlement to the Cyprus problem, while Cyprus’ Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos stressed that Nicosia will never ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday that twice-yearly exams at schools have failed, and legal reforms need to be made to abolish them. Speaking after his visit to the Pefkios ...

Cyprus Airways on Thursday issued an apology for an incident involving a passenger with reduced mobility that took place on March 2. In the past days Rafaella Miltiades, the passenger in ...

President Nicos Christodoulides pressed his new cabinet to not allow a single euro to go to waste from the available EU funds of the Recovery and Resilience programme. In short, ...

Men are getting paid up to four times more than female athletes, it emerged on Wednesday during a discussion of the House education committee promoting a law amendment to ensure ...

Outgoing Disy leader Averof Neophytou met with President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday and congratulated the new president and wished him every success. Neophytou did not attend Christodoulides’ official ceremony in ...

Gender equality issues are high on the new president’s agenda and relevant policies will be promoted in all ministries and deputy ministries, Nikos Christodoulides said on the International Women’...

The House legal affairs committee will restart discussing a bill regarding fake news, chair Nikos Tornaritis said on Wednesday. This comes just two days after House president Annita Demetriou filed ...

Discrimination against women and the lack of policy that supports motherhood, as well as violence against women and trafficking are some of the biggest hurdles that need to be tackled ...

The federation of patients’ associations (Osak) on Tuesday censured those who regard healthcare as a purely financial exercise, where care is measured in euros and cents. “Patients are neither expenses ...

Electricity prices must come down, as expensive energy is sapping people’s disposable income and also raising the cost of production for businesses, new Energy Minister George Papanastasiou stressed on ...

Police confirmed that a young a British man is hospitalised in critical condition after having fallen out of a moving vehicle along the Paphos-Limassol highway on Tuesday afternoon. Police confirmed ...

A suspended jail sentence for a man who tried to kill his wife is infuriating and simply unacceptable, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (Migs) said on Tuesday. Decrying the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday he was determined for state hospitals to live up to the public’s expectations of them, assuring that one of the focal points of ...

If Gesy collapses then the entire Cypriot economy will crumble, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Tuesday calling for a change in attitude within public hospitals. Speaking on CyBC radio, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday conceded that changes must be made to the twice-yearly exam programme as it has failed in achieving its stated goals. “The twice-yearly exam programme was ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has a number of political people in mind from EU member states that could play a constructive role in resolving the Cyprus problem, he said on Tuesday. ...

A call centre for any and all queries relating to benefits will go operational this week, the Social Insurance Services announced on Monday. A statement said the call centre was ...

The new government has put on hold a request for the release of around €3 million earmarked for the purchase of state vehicles, including 35 limos for officials, it emerged on Monday. ...

A 63-year-old man who tried to murder his wife in Tala last year was sentenced to six-month jail time with a three-year suspended sentence. The decision at Paphos criminal court ...