#Cyprus

Nikos Christodoulides still has a considerable lead ahead of the February 2023 presidential election, according to a poll released by Alpha TV on Wednesday, which also showed a tight race between ...

The government reiterated on Tuesday that it would not water down the rules relating to the manufacturing and content specifications for halloumi cheese, as codified in the Protected Designation of ...

People should forget about across-the-board cuts on energy-related taxes, brace for even higher electricity prices and turn to renewables, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Tuesday. In comments to daily ...

Cyprus is “flooded with migrants”, director general of the interior ministry Costas Constantinou told the House ad hoc committee on demographics on Tuesday. “Our country’s capacity to host migrants ...

A march to demand improved abortion laws and healthcare coverage across the island will be held in Nicosia on Friday. Against the backdrop of the US supreme court decision to ...

Power cuts continued to grip the north on Tuesday, impacting the operation of hospitals, which are currently running on emergency generators. On Monday, the Republic’s government received a request ...

A minimum wage will be introduced “in the coming months”, the government said on Tuesday, after a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades and relevant stakeholders ended in disagreement. Despite the ...

The attorney general on Tuesday said he will appeal a 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver who killed a Swedish mother in a fatal Ayia Napa crash earlier this ...

Calling it a ‘historic day’, President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday swore in the island’s first deputy minister of culture, Yiannis Toumazis. Anastasiades said culture is a cornerstone of identity. “...

Sunday’s round of group matches in the 2022 CCA #BAOGroup T20 Cup at Ypsonas saw a win for Qalandars in a closely contested Limassol derby and a vital win for ...

This weekend, head out to the luxurious Radisson Blu Hotel, Larnaca. Situated on Cyprus’s picturesque southern shore, the upscale Radisson Blu Hotel, Larnaca offers a stylish retreat in the ...

The name of a senior United Nations official who will mediate in the Cyprus problem is expected to be announced in the coming days, Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelaou said ...

Another step has been taken towards converting Paphos into a smart city with the introduction of a smart parking management system on Friday. The project, co-financed by the European Union ...

Up to €157,000 was withdrawn by unknown people from a company based in Limassol, using a similar e-mail to the owner and giving an order for the payment of invoices, police ...

A 53-year-old man found guilty of raping and assaulting his 11-year-old granddaughter was on Friday sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Larnaca-Famagusta court. In a strongly worded and emotive ...

Words have been turned into action as far as the Paphos-Polis Chrysohous highway is concerned, Minister of Transport Yiannis Karousos said on Friday as diggers broke ground on the project, ...

The family of the 27-year-old special forces soldier who died on Wednesday has asked for his organs to be donated to those in need, the health ministry announced on Friday. ...

In the past week three people in Cyprus have died from Covid while 10,879 new cases of the virus were identified, the ministry of health said on Friday. The three deaths ...

In today’s episode, the state health services organisation (OKYPY) on Thursday suggested that the June 2024 target for public hospitals to attain financial autonomy may have to be pushed back, ...

Almost 80 percent of businesses in Cyprus used social media in 2021 to get their message across, a steep rise on 2015 when the figure was just under 60 per cent, data released by ...

The build-up to the next six-monthly UN report on the Secretary-General’s Good Offices Mission and a second on the justifications for extending the Unficyp mandate from the end of ...

The 27-year-old soldier who was critically injured during training exercise earlier this week has died, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. He has been named as Panayiotis Yiannios. The ministry ...

The Cyprus National Guard is set to be supplied with personal protective equipment from Israel, under an agreement signed in Nicosia on Wednesday. The same PPE is used by the ...

It is time to prove that public interest and the rule of law come first for the government, House legal affairs committee chair Nicos Tornaritis said on Wednesday as the ...