#Cyprus

Increased passenger arrivals continued in May, airports operator Hermes said on Wednesday as flights from Larnaca and Paphos June are expected to increase further in June. There are currently 645 flights ...

Changes in the way GPs are paid prompted a new row between personal doctors and the health insurance organisation on Wednesday as the new form of payment was implemented. Abuses ...

Hundreds and eventually thousands of shops are expected to sign on to the cashback programme which Cyprus Banking Association spokesman Andreas Kostouris on Wednesday said will become widespread across all ...

The proposals for confidence building measures (CBMs) drawn up by President Nicos Anastasiades are beneficial to both sides, government spokesperson Marios Pelekanos said on Wednesday after Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin ...

The Akamas development plan is set for discussion at a joint meeting of the house environment and interior committees on June 8, following last week’s report that the plan could ...

Recycling of household waste could become a legal requirement if a proposal before the House Environment Committee on Wednesday is given the go-ahead. Committee chairman and president of the Greens ...

Bills that will see reform of the island’s justice system are due for a vote at the House plenum on June 30 with chairman of the House legal committee Fotini ...

Most students in Cyprus said they were unhappy when schools were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic leading them to an increased internet use, a survey by the health ministry’...

A total of 12 people were convicted for human trafficking offences in the past year, police said on Wednesday, while a further 33 cases are currently before the courts. Since last July ...

By Roberto Sciffo The evidence of ‘energy dependency’ becomes more acute when events, such as what is currently happening in the Ukraine, bring to light both the sensitivity of international ...

Israel’s Defence Minister Benny Gantz arrive in Cyprus on Tuesday to see the large bilateral military exercise Agapinor, which started on Sunday. He was greeted at Paphos international airport ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Tuesday praised the 2021-2022 academic year as having been a success despite a series of setbacks and challenges while emphasising that further improvements are on ...

Work on the new football stadium in Limassol is going full steam ahead, president of the Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) Andreas Michaelides has said. Michaelides said he is taking a ...

While expressing satisfaction with an agreement reached by EU leaders overnight for a sixth round of sanctions against Russia, Government Spokesman Marios Pelekanos also warned of their consequences. “Given the ...

A 70-year-old man was on Tuesday sentenced to ten years in prison for systematically raping a foreign worker he employed to work in his agricultural fields. Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court sentenced ...

The proportion of tourists holidaying in Cyprus on package deals has decreased, with officials at the tourism ministry encouraged that the benefits of foreign visitors are now being distributed across ...

An EU campaign aiming to help people make informed decisions about everyday food choices was launched in Cyprus on Tuesday. A statement released by the health ministry said the #EUChooseSafeFood ...

Thirty seven-year-old independent Charalambos Aristotelous has announced his candidacy for the 2023 presidential elections, making him the tenth candidate so far. “This is a personal initiative embraced by the forces of ...

The villages of Vouni, Kalopanayiotis and Steni are the first to receive the Colourful Villages award, recently established by the deputy ministry of tourism. Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios ...

The embattled traffic camera system received further criticism as it emerged that 11,000 violations it recorded are deemed invalid, with the company asking that they be rescinded. Officials met on Monday ...

A new dendrochronological study of the island’s Unesco painted churches has made it possible to establish the basis of a real biography for some of Cyprus’ most prized monuments, ...

Three years on from the introduction of the national health scheme Gesy, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO), which runs it, is introducing performance criteria for personal doctors as it seeks ...

The financial ombudsman has granted debt immunity to a mentally handicapped person, asking the entity to which the money is owed to comply. In a final decision dated May 26, Pavlos ...

Lawmakers said on Monday they hoped for swift passage of a bill that would fast-track the return of at least part of the moneys legacy Laiki’s depositors lost in ...