Cyprus has absorbed 80% of EU funding since 2004
Lawmakers heard on Thursday that Cyprus has absorbed almost 80 per cent of EU funds allocated to it since joining the bloc – a good rate of absorption – but needs to keep ...
Cyprus asks UN for postponement of works at Cetinkaya pitch
The foreign ministry sent a letter to the UN peacekeeping force Unficyp on Thursday asking for an immediate postponement of works taking place at the Cetinkaya football pitch in the ...
Status quo in Cyprus affects GC rights and freedoms, UN told
Cyprus’ Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Gavriella Michaelidou said that the current status quo on the island affects the rights and freedoms of Greek Cypriots.
Speaking on Wednesday during ...
Cyprus has bought new choppers for the national guard (with video)
Cyprus has already bought new helicopters for the National Guard and has made defence agreements with more than 15 countries, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Thursday.
Speaking at a military ...
Updated journalists’ code of ethics released
Τhe Cyprus Committee for Media Ethics (CME) on Thursday released its updated journalists’ code of conduct.
It is the first time the code was updated since the establishment of the ...
Exhausted kingfisher treated and released back into the wild
A kingfisher was released back into the wild on Thursday after it was successfully rehabilitated by Akrotiri Environmental and Education Centre (AEEC) staff and members of the game and fauna ...
Two Limassol balconies collapse in one day, woman slightly injured (Updated)
The row over dangerous buildings reignited on Thursday after a small part of an apartment building in Limassol detached and fell to the pavement – with a similar, but separate incident ...
Children’s A&E to temporarily operate at Nicosia general hospital
Plans to open a new accident and emergency department specifically for children at the Makarios children’s hospital have been changed, as it was decided that it will now be ...
Passports, Russia, reform: a very busy year for bar association
The challenges and achievements within the legal profession took centre stage on Wednesday as head of the bar association Christos Clerides said that he was proud of the body’s ...
Audit office claims obstruction in investment programme probe
The audit office has accused the government of obstructing its efforts to investigate the Cyprus investment programme, stating that the interior ministry is withholding vital information.
The audit office on ...
AG and Thanasis’ parents plead for information over guardsman’s death
The mother and father of the national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou who was found dead in 2005 met with the attorney general on Wednesday – with both parties calling on anyone with information ...
Gesy will compete ‘on equal footing with private sector’
The state health services (Okypy) has vowed significant spending on the national health service Gesy with a projected €250 million for 2022-2024, while also acknowledging complaints and the need to constantly ...
Status of buffer zone football field unchanged – UN
Any claims that the status of Taksim football pitch within the UN buffer zone will change is wrong and misleading, Unficyp spokesman Aleem Siddique said on Wednesday following reports in ...
Free digital skills courses for the over-55s
The labour ministry on Wednesday announced the launch of free digital skills courses for people aged 55 and over.
The courses are being offered in all districts as part of the ...
Lens of newly installed traffic camera blackened
Vandals have spray painted a stationary traffic camera in the capital amidst works to increase the traffic camera network.
Photos of the vandalised traffic camera are circulating which show its ...
Archbishop’s health is deteriorating
Patriarch of Jerusalem Theofilos III will be arriving on Wednesday to visit Archbishop Chrysostomos II, who has been fighting intestinal cancer.
According to reports, the archbishop’s health has been ...
Early release of man who had sex with minor
The supreme court has ordered the early release of a 29-year-old man convicted to four and a half years in jail for sexually abusing a minor, it emerged on Wednesday.
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Despite challenges, Cyprus aims for energy self-sufficiency – Pilides
Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Wednesday that Cyprus is making great strides towards reaching energy self-sufficiency and a competitive internal gas market.
“At the same time, we are also ...
Shouldn’t people have a say in how green spaces are managed?
By Efi Xanthou
So, some good Samaritan wants to donate €1.7 million to the Limassol municipality, what is people’s problem with this? Can’t Cypriots appreciate a good deed? It’...
Archbishop Chrysostomos’ health said to be ‘stable’ (updated)
Archbishop Chrysostomos II’s health is stable, his personal doctor, Joseph Kashios, told the Cyprus News Agency (Cna) immediately after his evening visit to the Archbishopric on Tuesday.
“The archbishop ...
Call for north to be linked to EuroAsia connector
The Turkish Cypriot community must demand from the EU the right to get on board the prospective EuroAsia Interconnector project “without political preconditions,” head of the Turkish Cypriot Energy Efficiency ...
Green tax will not be imposed at year end
Now is not the time to roll out a carbon tax, as the country’s tax base is already reeling from the rising cost of living, the finance minister said ...
FM to probe US interest in maritime deal with Turkey
Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides has said he will probe Washington’s interest in brokering talks between Cyprus and Turkey for a possible maritime border deal following the United States’ role ...
Twice as much rain seen this October than whole month last year
October rainfall was over 200 per cent higher than the average for the whole month, the meteorological department said on Tuesday on Tuesday while some areas saw more than an average ...