#Cyprus

After a long hot summer and autumn period, winter may finally have arrived on the island, with the first snowfall recorded late on Friday afternoon in the mountains. According to ...

The reform of the social security system and adequate income for pensioners are among the priorities of the labour ministry for the next three years, MPs heard on Friday during ...

Aspiring archbishops have to finalise their candidacy by Monday, when ballots are set to go to print. This should also mean an end to rumours about who will be running, ...

Shoppers appear to show limited interest in Black Friday sales, as stores opened their doors early Friday to fewer crowds than usual likely to due the economic climate fuelled by ...

A Santa Claus fun run will be held in Limassol on Sunday, December 11, organised by the Limassol Tourism Board. Santa Runs are popular Christmas events around the globe that attracts ...

Two doctors who are being investigated over the death of a 15-year-old patient returned to work on Friday after the administrative court nullified their suspension. Health authorities said they “respect” ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou Lottides reported gaps and weakness in the state’s adoption of the Istanbul convention to combat gender based violence on Friday, as data showed that 20 women have ...

Turkish Cypriot activist Munur Rahvancioglu’s case over being barred from entering Turkey has been taken to court, the Independence Road movement, which he is deputy secretary-general of, announced on ...

A total of seven deaths and 4,214 cases of Covid-19 were recorded over the past week, the health ministry announced on Friday. One more death announced had occurred in the previous ...

Opposition legislators piled on public broadcaster Cybc on Thursday and accused it of devolving into mouthpiece for the government, during a discussion of the organisation’s budget for 2023, coming up ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Thursday that it will generate a small surplus next year, following an uptick in revenues – and insisted that the key objective of ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Thursday called for an overhaul of the way in which the state provides grants to various entities, as in many cases taxpayer money appeared to disappear ...

The House on Thursday rejected the president’s veto on a law expanding the list of public officials needing special permission to be employed in the private sector after they ...

President Nicos Anastasiades met former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday during the final day of his official visit to Berlin. Following the private meeting, Anastasiades took to Twitter to ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos on Thursday said the area surrounding Paphos airport is in dire need of refurbishment and that expansion works for the facility are also set to be ...

The forestry department on Thursday announced that its ‘Tree Week’ will run from the end of this week, with events held in all districts. An inaugural event at Ayios Dometios ...

Members of the public have reported that shops are taking advantage of Black Friday to enforce some shady pricing practices, the consumer protection service of the ministry of commerce said ...

And companies need to do more about packaging By Charalampos Theopemptou Among the business world, I often hear the discussions and worries about the new Environment, Sustainability, Governance (ESG) criteria ...

Amendments to legislation to make space for glamping, a proposal that had previously been rejected by the House, were discussed by the House commerce committee on Tuesday. The issue of ...

Lawmakers said on Tuesday that legislation introducing a ‘household basket’ – a weekly list of lower-priced staple goods – would be delayed to next year as stakeholders hammer out the details of ...

The government clarified on Tuesday it will impose a special levy on suppliers and producers of electricity, but will tax them in a rational way that does not disincentivise the ...

“Dangerous medicine” is not being practiced at Paphos general hospital, state health services organisation Okypy said on Tuesday after criticisms were levelled against it. “We categorically do not accept statements ...

Cyprus does not have enough trained professionals specialising in elderly care and treatment, the health ministry’s technical committee on old age said on Tuesday after submitting a draft of ...

Six bishops on Tuesday registered themselves as candidates to become the new archbishop. Commissioner for the archbishopric elections Ioannis Charilaou said that there are officially six candidates. The candidates that ...