#Cyprus

Payoffs for employees taking early or voluntary retirement will be subject to income tax under a sweeping reform plan, the government announced on Tuesday. The draft legislation, part of a ...

Despite improvements achieved in the year since the implementation of local government reform, the system needs continuous updating and further upgrades are underway, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. “The ...

A 41-year-old man involved in a brawl in Kalo Chorio, Larnaca on Saturday night was remanded for three days on Tuesday by the Larnaca district court. The suspect faces charges ...

An Israeli cruise ship was diverting to Cyprus on Tuesday after deciding against docking at its planned destination on the Greek island of Syros after a mass protest was organised ...

A building being demolished on Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue collapsed on Tuesday, scattering scaffolding and rubble onto the road. As a result, part of the avenue from the police station ...

A 78-year-old Paphos man accused of murdering a fellow pensioner earlier this month will face trial on September 30 before the Paphos criminal court, it was ruled on Tuesday. Andreas Shiamptanis, 73, ...

An all-day symbolic protest and hunger strike called End the Starvation of Gaza was held outside the Embassy of Palestine in Nicosia on Tuesday. “The situation in Gaza has exceeded ...

Law commissioner Louiza Christodoulidou Zannetou was on Tuesday acquitted of all charges against her regarding her failure to undergo a second breathalyser test when an initial reading showed she had ...

Five people arrested in a Europe-wide operation to uncover an international band promoting fake marriages, centred in Cyprus, were found guilty on Tuesday by the Larnaca criminal court. The court ...

The United States navy’s guided missile destroyer the USS Mahan arrived in Cyprus on Tuesday, the country’s embassy in Nicosia announced. The embassy said the ship is in ...

Half of the cars on Cyprus’ roads have been imported secondhand and, despite efforts to move forward with the replacement of faulty Takata airbags following deaths and injuries, Transport Minister ...

The planned electricity cable which will link Turkey and the north “will not compete” with the Great Sea Interconnector project, which is planned to link Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, energy ...

The finance ministry has asked “reasonable questions” regarding the Great Sea Interconnector project in its letter to the energy ministry, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Tuesday. Speaking to CyBC ...

The Pancyprian Organisation of the Deaf has expressed “outrage” and “profound disappointment” over what it describes as the systematic removal of accessibility measures for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals by the ...

The Supreme Judicial Council on Monday objected to an appeal by Doria Varoshiotou against its decision not to proceed with her permanent appointment and to terminate her term as district ...

The justice ministry said is taking active measures to address the overcrowding of prisons, an issue Cyprus has been slammed for in a Council of Europe report, it said on ...

At €277 per person, Cyprus is amongst the three countries with the lowest spending on family benefits within the EU, data published by the EU’s statistical service Eurostat on Monday ...

A new law requiring countdown timers on traffic lights monitored by cameras is unconstitutional, the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Monday. The law, passed by the House of Representatives on ...

The mismanagement of the military has been “disastrous” for Cyprus, which continues to stand against Turkey’s policy with “contradictory and vague declarations, and unfulfilled promises”, the Cyprus Centre for ...

The labour ministry on Monday stepped up efforts to find a compromise on the future of the Cost of Living allowance (Cola) as hotel unions continued to threaten to strike. ...

Statements made by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to the north on Sunday were branded a “blatant offence to international and European law,” by government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

The way a society takes care of the mentally ill is a measure of its culture, Health Minister Michalis Damianos said on Monday at a memorial service for those killed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday paid tribute to the 16 Greek soldiers killed during the invasion as a service was held at the Ayia Sophia church in Strovolos to repatriate their ...

The mother of the late national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou has published a statement on social media, claiming fresh scientific evidence points to strangulation as the cause of her son’s ...