#Cyprus

Cyprus’ coastal Pissouri and Kalopanayiotis in the mountains made it onto the UN’s ‘Best Tourism Villages’ of 2022, alongside 30 others ranging from Austria to Vietnam. The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) ...

In an unexpected turn of events, the charges faced by the 74-year-old Briton accused of the murder of his terminally ill wife in Tremithousa last December remained unchanged despite hopes ...

By Elias Hazou and Iole Damaskinos A rise in the cost of electricity is inevitable for Cyprus beginning in early February, due to the country’s reliance on electricity production ...

The four-year-old child hospitalised with strep-A is too ill to be transferred to Israel for the time being but the health ministry is on standby for any changes to the ...

A local secondary school aims to allow all young people access to education through its participation in a European Erasmus+ programme. In collaboration with schools and educational organisations from five ...

The European Union is offering €1.5 million in scholarships to Greek and Turkish Cypriots to study at European colleges and become peace advocates for the reunification of Cyprus. According to the ...

Driving in the north will switch to the right hand side of the road as part of an effort to bring it in line with Turkey and put an end ...

Nurses of Pasydy union on Monday condemned the recent verbal and physical attack against an ambulance worker, a day after Pasyno nurses’ union threatened to take legal measures over the ...

The audit service on Monday sounded the alarm over explosives stored in an area surrounded by homes. The warning was included in a report on the defence ministry, which outlined ...

Tourist arrivals in November 2022 were 0.6 per cent higher than those recorded in the same month the previous year, data published on Monday by the statistical service showed. Specifically, 149,857 tourists arrived ...

Some 1,000 former bank employees who opted for early retirement are waiting for the attorney-general to rule on whether they’re also entitled to unemployment benefit, it appeared on Monday. The ...

Speculation about who will become the next archbishop took off on Monday, following the results of the popular vote the day before, with some pundits giving Paphos bishop Georgios a ...

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 ...