#Cyprus

Owners are up in arms over the state-sanctioned dispossession of their land without proper notification nor compensation, leaving their properties in limbo, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides revealed on Monday. Speaking to ...

An enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, involving both the island’s communities as well as all three guarantor powers and the United Nations, will go ahead in the Swiss ...

A Limassol man was cheated out of €430,000 in a cryptocurrency scam, police said on Monday. Police said the scammers pretended to represent a reliable investment platform and had promised profits ...

Disgruntled customers have complained to the Cyprus Mail about deteriorating services on the island’s public bus transport, not only in terms of route connections, but also in terms of ...

United Nations Under Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, was arriving to Cyprus on Sunday. According to CNA sources, DiCarlo will be briefed by UN SG’s Special ...

As the dust is still settling over the rubble of the latest modernist building to be razed in the name of development, owners are urged to feel proud that their ...

Homeowners across Cyprus who invested in solar energy to reduce their electricity costs are now facing a growing problem: frequent remote shutdowns of their photovoltaic (PV) systems. These unexpected disconnections ...

Hosting this year’s Eurobasket is an “investment in Cypriot sport”, President Nikos Christodoulides said, Speaking to Greek sports website Sport24, he spoke of his love for basketball and the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is “intensifying pressure” on Turkey on the issue of Cyprus’ missing persons, the government’s humanitarian affairs director Anna Aristotelous said on Saturday. Addressing a meeting of ...

Two hundred years ago, one job in Cyprus outnumbered all others – by miles! According to the Ottoman Property Survey of 1832, 50 people were registered as merchants, 36 were cobblers, and 26 gave their ...

The introduction of undergraduate programmes in foreign languages at Cyprus’ public universities will “undermine” the Pancyprian examinations, unions said on Friday. Teachers’ unions Oelmek and Oltek, the secondary school parents’ ...

Cyprus is to impose a “landfill tax” on its local authorities, charging them money to dispose of waste at landfill sites, the environment department said on Friday. Following a study ...

Cyprus’ forthcoming term as the holder of the European Council’s rotating presidency in the first half of next year is “a unique opportunity for our country to leave its ...

The United States navy’s guided missile destroyer the USS The Sullivans returned to Larnaca for the second time in two months on Friday, the country’s ambassador in Nicosia ...

Cyprus must implement a comprehensive national strategy for people with autism, House president Annita Demetriou said on Friday, stressing that it is the state’s responsibility to support those diagnosed ...

President Nikos Christodoulides addressed the 20th annual session of the Mediterranean Model United Nations (MEDIMUN) in Nicosia on Friday. Christodoulides expressed his gratitude to the organisers and the English School ...

The ministry of education on Friday said an application had yet to be filed for the founding of a Jewish faith-based educational institution in Limassol. According to earlier reports sourced ...

A Syrian boat captain was imprisoned for three years after he was found guilty by the Famagusta criminal court for causing the death by negligence of a three-year-old girl, also ...

The auditor general’s office has blamed the contractor for the termination of the Paphos-Polis road, saying that state authorities were not responsible despite having added to the delay, it ...

An underage teenager was found driving his parents’ car down a main road in Paphos on Thursday night, police said on Friday. During routine checks, traffic police officers spotted a ...

Cyprus has recorded a 275.5 per cent increase in bloodstream infections caused by Enterobacterales resistant to carbapenem antibiotics, placing it fourth among EU countries facing this growing healthcare threat. According to ...

MPs expressed general support on Thursday for a bill introducing automatic voter registration, though some raised concerns about allowing 17-year-olds to vote. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou told the House internal ...

Following the heavy snowfall that led to school and road closures across Cyprus’ mountainous regions on Thursday, the forestry department has been at the forefront of efforts to ensure safe ...

Turkish Cypriots on Thursday commemorated the second anniversary of the two devastating earthquakes which hit southeastern Turkey in 2023. A total of 49 Cypriots were among the more than 50,000 people recorded dead ...