#Cyprus

President Nicos Anastasiades will present the expected economic and social transformation of the country within the €4.4 billion Cyprus Tomorrow plan at the presidential palace this coming week. In a first ...

A woman sitting on the International Olympic Committee plans on taking a bicommunal group of youngsters around the island’s coast next year to promote togetherness through sport. Alix Norman ...

As of last month, 1,343 new electric vehicles (EV) have been registered in Cyprus, surpassing the year’s goal by 144 per cent, the transport ministry said. The switch to electric vehicles ...

Some €19 million in funding has been secured by the defence ministry via the European Union’s structural funds Thalia programme for the installation of photovoltaic systems in National Guard barracks ...

Energy Minister Natasa Pilides announced the upcoming visit of the Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson, in a statement after the conclusion of the extraordinary meeting of energy ministers in Brussels on ...

The Paphos court on Friday acquitted a 30-year-old man accused of the rape and kidnapping of a woman. Both the accused and the complainant are third country nationals. The offences ...

The forced division of an EU member state is not a Cyprus question, but a European question, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said on Friday in an ...

Larnaca police were investigating on Friday after an animal breeder reported that 74 of his animals were killed by three stray dogs in Tersefanou. The owner of the farm told police ...

Cypriot professor Andreas Kapardis presented two papers on corruption during the 39th Cambridge international symposium on economic crime. The emeritus professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of ...

The amount of money needed for work at Dikomo landfill, where the remains of approximately 70 Greek Cypriots are believed to be buried, is huge, close to €10 million, but the work ...

The health services are preparing to start offering the fourth coronavirus vaccine dose, deputy director of nursing services Evagoras Tambouris said on Friday as the Pfizer vaccine has already arrived ...

In today’s episode, Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, the nation’s figurehead, and a towering presence on the world stage for seven decades, died peacefully at her ...

University students in Limassol are forking out anywhere from €800 to €1,200 a month for renting a single-bedroom apartment, with many of them forced to ditch their studies as they can no ...

A European Parliament special committee stressed on Thursday the need to tighten up EU-wide rules governing the sale and use of spyware, following the eavesdropping affair in Greece. The committee – ...

Cyprus on Thursday joined the international community in offering condolences for the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, who during her long reign had not been received well by at least ...

The government said Thursday it wants to mandate airbags for professional motorcyclists, especially for food delivery drivers, after a spate of serious road accidents. Speaking after a parliamentary committee, Transport ...

Outraged reactions among football clubs erupted on Thursday as calls went out for responsibilities to be attributed after photographs of a concert at Tsirio stadium in Limassol were doing the ...

Work to install a system to deactivate mobile phones at the island’s central prisons is awaiting the green light from the prisons’ directorate, according to the department of electrical ...

An exchange of views on confidence-building measures (CBM) and a discussion of issues related to the work of the bi-communal technical committees took place in an online meeting between the ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) on Thursday announced the creation of a special webpage dedicated to the accident and emergency departments of its hospitals. According to information, the aim ...

The municipal park ‘Piraeus’ in Larnaca has been targetted by vandals just months after an arson attack on the children’s play area. “Once again a municipal park fell ‘victim’ ...

Consensus for an upgrade to the pay scales for police officers and firefighters was reached on Thursday between workers unions and the finance ministry. Unions Pasydy, Sak and Sypyk said ...

A Cyprus-based drone company on Thursday neither confirmed nor denied reports from a Russian social media site (VK) that said some of its Poseidon H10 drones had been received by ...

Construction of the 11km-long four-lane highway between Astromeritis and Evrychou is to begin as soon as possible, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos announced on Thursday. At a cost of €88.6m, the ...