#Cyprus

Bishop Athanasios of Limassol secured the lead in Sunday’s electoral process for the new archbishop, and is followed by Bishop Georgios of Paphos and Bishop Isaiah of Tamassos and ...

Easing relocations for foreign workers in the tech sector by smoothing the legal procedures and bureaucracy were among the top priorities the presidential candidates highlighted in an English-language debate earlier ...

Demonstrators at Limassol zoo on Sunday said they would continue their protests until the facility is closed down. “We’re not kidding. We cannot let animals live in these conditions. ...

In the past decade no opportunity on the Cyprus problem has been left untapped, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday. Speaking to the political magazine Politikoi, he said until his ...

Nurses union Pasyno on Sunday threatened to take legal measures against the ministry of health and the state health services Okypy after another member was attacked while treating a patient, ...

Voting in the elections for a new Archbishop on Sunday, President Nicos Anastasiades said he hoped the “best would be elected”. “Each Archbishop is also the spiritual leader of the ...

As the day of his exit approached, President Anastasiades seems determined to leave office with his personal popularity on a high. This is an unrealistic objective for anyone who has ...

Police’s underwater demolition team swam 1.5 kilometres on Saturday as part of an event to support children with cancer. Police chief Stelios Papatheodorou kicked off the event. Participants swam in ...

The animal party is mobilising with other groups to form a human chain around Limassol zoo on Sunday to protest against its continued existence following a series of scandals related ...

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 ...