#Cyprus

How successful will the much-publicised new multi-million plan for the walled city be? To great fanfare, the government in April unveiled a €40 million action plan aimed at revamping Nicosia’s ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Sunday launched a complaint that a priest in a Paphos village refused to name a teenager killed in 1973 during a memorial service. “Disgrace and shame. ...

Politicians and media commentators often warn about the growing disillusionment of people with politics, citing the declining turn out for elections and the thousands of youngsters not registering on the ...

After facing heavy criticism over the last few days for his appointment to the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) board, head of the Cyprus Medical Association Dr Petros Agathangelou on Saturday ...

The transport ministry on Saturday hailed the recent approval of the amendment to the legislation on bicycles and other personal mobility vehicles, including e-scooters. The ministry noted that although the ...

The nine communities in the Vasiliko area on Saturday called for the resignation of Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis for failing to resolve the issue of repeated fires in the area. ...

Paphos hoteliers association Thanos Michaelides on Saturday said the hotel occupancy rate in the district will reach approximately 80 per cent in July, an improvement over June’s 70 per cent. However, ...

The community leader of Doros village in the Limassol district said on Saturday that irrigation water is being stolen from his village and the adjacent one of Lania meaning they ...

In today’s episode, a Greek Cypriot man was arrested on Thursday after he was caught on video kicking a Congolese woman holding her baby, an incident that was universally ...

As increasing numbers of patients report long Covid symptoms, a Larnaca healthcare centre is offering treatment for the condition, attracting foreign visitors to the island to receive expensive and unproven ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation seen as the backbone of reforming the justice and judicial system – a development welcomed by the attorney-general and the justice minister. The ...

The interior ministry will launch a lifeguard workshop as a means of covering staffing needs, it announced on Thursday. This comes after efforts failed to find and hire lifeguards to ...

Four people will face a criminal trial over their role in apparently giving naturalisations to foreign investors, caught on an infamous Al Jazeera recording, the Attorney-general’s office said on ...

Upholding an appeal from the attorney-general, the supreme court on Thursday added four years to the jail term of a man found guilty of raping and sexually abusing a minor. ...

Abortion legislation may have been modernised in 2018 but if what was said at the House human rights committee on Monday is anything to go by, the new provisions have largely ...

Opposition lawmakers on Tuesday urged authorities to curb the flow of irregular migrants, pointing out that the cost to state coffers is increasing exponentially. Committee chair of the House ad ...

Main opposition party Akel said on Tuesday a bill allowing for a cap on the price of fuel products would head to the House plenum later this week. The decision ...

A bill extending a freeze on property foreclosures to December may not go to the plenum for a vote this week, after it failed to garner the necessary consensus in ...

The island’s university rectors on Tuesday called for a push forward of legislative regulation that will allow courses at public universities in Cyprus to be taught in languages other ...

New twists and turns emerged on Tuesday in the halloumi saga as German authorities complained to the European Commission that the cheese is being sold under the name but without ...

Nicosia is preparing a demarche to be sent both to the UN Secretary-General and the UN Security Council over the former’s reports on Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades said on ...

A 16th century icon stolen from the Antifonitis church in Kalograia in the Kyrenia district was officially handed over to Archbishop Chrysostmos on Tuesday after being repatriated last week. The ...

Fourteen tons of bulgur wheat was given to the Church of Cyprus on Tuesday by the Pancyprian Committee of wheat producers, to be headed on to the needy. Quantities are ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday he was shocked by the death of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe who was recently assassinated, as he signed the condolences book opened ...