#Cyprus

The occupational therapists association on Tuesday highlighted the need for comprehensive planning for the integration of occupational therapists into the national health scheme (Gesy), warning of persisting “serious shortcomings” with ...

A 41 and a 20 year-old man were on Monday arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation into a case of arson at a Paphos parking lot, police said on Tuesday. According ...

A Greek man arrested in connection with the murder of Stavros Demosthenous has been released after investigations determined that he was not involved in the crime, the Cyprus News Agency ...

The fire which broke out in the hold of a merchant vessel docked at Larnaca port on Monday night was caused by a work accident, the labour department and the ...

On Oxi day, the weather will be mostly clear with temperatures reaching 28 degrees Celsius inland and the south and east coast, around 26 degrees on the west and north coast and 22 ...

The need to create laws to ensure the provision of assistance dogs to people with disabilities was agreed during a discussion at the House human rights committee on Monday. “At ...

The appeal of five brick production companies claiming the state violated their constitutional rights by failing to regulate factories operating in the north was dismissed by the Supreme Court on ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ and head of the head of the UBP party, Unal Ustel on Monday ruled out the option of early elections, saying that his ‘government’ was ...

The Cypriot state must stay the course with the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), the energy minister said on Monday, even as the outgoing Vice President of the European Investment Bank ...

Middle-class families will benefit from tax exemptions of up to €150 million a year under the overhauled tax system, the finance minister said on Monday. News outlet Stockwatch published a written ...

The 51-year-old from Greece arrested in connection with the gunning down of 49-year-old Stavros Demosthenous 500m from his home in Limassol was sighted in the area in a stolen car ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday called for more frequent and more local discussions to be held regarding the Cyprus problem and related confidence-building measures. He was asked about ...

Witness testimonies are being collected as police investigate a case of alleged unprovoked beating by a group of minors against a 14-year-old boy and his father at an Aglandjia gymnasium ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet new United Nations special representative in Cyprus Khassim Diagne for the first time on Wednesday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. Letymbiotis told the ...

Athienou is joining a pilot programme to turn plant cuttings and manure into cost-effective high-quality compost. The programme, called ‘Nurish’, will run for 54 months – four and a half years – and ...

A new Bank of Cyprus oncology centre is to open in Larnaca next year, the bank said on Monday. The centre will, according to the bank, serve the needs of ...

Efforts to reach consensus among the social partners over the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) continued through the weekend, with the labour and fınance ministers listing the points on which convergence ...

By Flora Alexandrou Music, a universal language that crosses every border, has long shaped how people face conflicts and differences. From ancient ceremonies to modern protests, its rhythms have carried ...

By November 10, Cyprus will have joined 160 other countries who demand all users of pay-as-you-go SIM cards to register their identity with legal documentation, or the numbers they may have used ...

As calls were growing in the UK in the mid-20th century to bring back troops from the then British colonies in Cyprus, Kenya and Malaya, local uprisings were brewing, ...

Federalism is back on the agenda after the election of Tufan Erhurman as “TRNC president” by a landslide comparable to the resounding approval Turkish Cypriots gave the UN-EU sponsored bicommunal ...

By Averof Neophytou The election of Tufan Erhurman as the new leader of the Turkish Cypriot community has brought the stalled Cyprus issue back into the spotlight. A number of ...

Before last Sunday’s ‘presidential’ election in the occupied north there was much speculation about what would happen in the event of a win for CTP leader Tufan Erhurman, who, ...

We often hear about the high price of gold. But it’s only after looking at the relevant charts (here, for instance) that you realise what a truly historic moment ...