#Cyprus

Polis Chrysochous mayor Yiotis Papachristofi on Saturday appealed to President Nicos Anastasiades to intervene at Polis Chrysochous hospital, which remains without an inpatient ward. Two years ago following a decision ...

A wide-ranging bill tabled to parliament has set out to totally overhaul regulations for owning a dog, it emerged on Friday. A €300 fine for not picking up dog poop in ...

Cyprus will seek judgement from international bodies over Turkish provocations, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos said on Friday, a day after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced that Ankara would station more ...

Prison guard members of the Isotita union held protests over their pay grades for the 12th consecutive day on Friday, upping pressure on the government as they gathered outside the ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou has drafted a proposal to end the practice of making gymnasium pupils repeat a year based on performance assessment. According to Philenews the proposal has already ...

Local problems fall into insignificance in the face of the climate crisis and there only a narrow window to act, Noam Chomsky said in a recorded interview presented at the ...

The government’s withdrawal from talks with airport operators Hermes is but a smokescreen intended to put the kibosh on the affair and kick the can down the road, a ...

The House on Thursday passed a bill extending to the end of February 2023 the period for reduced consumption tax on fuel, in a move that will ease some of the ...

As of November 1, doctors who have a private practice within hospitals contracted with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) but who themselves are not registered with the national health system will ...

Three of the presidential candidates said the trust of the Turkish Cypriots needs to be won back, and that more should have been done to invest in their community. Speaking ...

The scenario of a mutually agreed solution to the Cyprus problem is fading and would not be available much longer UN Special Representative in Cyprus Colin Stewart said on Thursday. ...

Cyprus will request specific exemptions from the measures concerning the mandatory reduction of energy demand during peak hours, as well as the imposition of a cap on the additional profits ...

Revenue from tourism was up 141 per cent between January and July of 2022 compared to last year, totaling €1.217bn, according to the statistical service. For July 2022 the revenues reached €381m compared ...

Hoteliers and businesses are disappointed by the government decision to suspend financial incentives to airlines to use Larnaca and Paphos airports, they said on Thursday. The director-general of the Cyprus ...

Next year will be difficult for economy amidst inflation, high energy prices and deglobalisation, said Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Wednesday. Speaking at a conference organised by Deloitte, the minister ...

Polis Chrysochous hospital will get a day care ward counter to the demand of residents for the reoperation of the inpatient ward which closed during the peak of the coronavirus ...

Eight vultures were released into the wild on Wednesday after being sent to the island from Spain to help boost the population here, BirdLife said. They are expected to be ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos assured students at a primary school in Limassol that the installation of sound barriers to permanently solve the problem of noise pollution from vehicles on the ...

Cyprus’ first crematorium is set to begin operations by 2024, eight years after the relevant law was first passed, it emerged on Wednesday. The environment department approved the application for the ...

A 27-year-old man was remanded for eight days by the Paphos district court on Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to murder another man, aged 36, in the early hours of Tuesday. ...

Independent candidate for the 2023 presidential elections Achilleas Demetriades put fighting corruption and the need for more transparency at the top of his agenda as he set out his key proposals ...

A giant piano fountain, bingo, great food, a wedding, and dozens of African migrants daily chanting ‘Anna Queen of the Prison’ prompted filmmaker Raphael Rowe of Netflix’s Inside the ...

Police are to carry out a risk assessment on security issues to his person, raised by state medical examiner Panicos Stavrianos in connection with the death of national guardsman Thanasis ...

The four independent presidential candidates will get together again on Wednesday for more talks on forging a possible alliance that might garner enough support to push them into the second ...