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Petros Nacouzi was on Sunday elected as the Maronite Cypriot non-voting representative in parliament, winning 51 per cent of the vote to take the seat. He won 1,606 of the votes cast, ...

Nikos Anastasiou on Sunday evening resigned as Edek leader, with the party looking likely to lose all its seats in parliament after the day’s election. He had taken over ...

Taxpayers in Cyprus will submit their 2025 income tax returns through the existing TAXISnet system following a decision by the Tax Department in April to delay full implementation of the Tax ...

Disy will be the largest party in the new parliament, according to the exit poll, while Elam, as pre-election polls predicted, will rise to third place, displacing Diko, which had ...

World’s largest marine protection NGO urges ban on destructive bottom trawlers The relationship between Cyprus and the sea is as deep as the ocean itself, but as deep as ...

Voters across the Paphos district have been arriving steadily at polling stations since early morning on Sunday, with some of the strongest participation recorded among elderly residents in rural communities. ...

As President Nikos Christodoulides bounded down the stairs affixed to the side of the Cyprus Airways jet which had flown him to Mumbai on Wednesday, there was little surprise among ...

It’s a game, of course. We the People vote for MPs every five years – then, once results are in, those politicians can relax. Voters have very little power to ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou called on voters to support “responsibility and stability” after casting her ballot on Sunday in Troulloi, as former president Nicos Anastasiades warned that political fragmentation could ...

President Nikos Christodoulides called on members of the public to participate in Sunday’s parliamentary elections after casting his vote in Paphos, declaring that “abstention is not an option”. Christodoulides ...

Cyprus goes to the polls for parliamentary elections on Sunday, with 56 seats up for grabs. Of those 56 seats, 19 will belong to MPs from the Nicosia district, 12 to MPs from the ...

A British passenger was remanded in custody for three days on Saturday after customs officers at Larnaca airport seized a large quantity of duty-unpaid cigarettes from his luggage. The seizure ...

Geopolitical instability, rising defence needs and strengthening Europe’s competitiveness and resilience dominated discussions at the informal Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) meeting in Nicosia on Saturday. Speaking after ...

A 75-year-old woman from Scotland has died following a traffic accident in a hotel car park in Paphos, police said on Saturday. The victim was named as Margery Balfour, while ...

A 61-year-old woman died in a workplace accident in Limassol on Friday evening, police said. The victim was named as Diana Tsilidou, a Georgian national. According to police, the incident ...

Eight hundred and eighty-nine buildings in the Larnaca district have been classified as dangerous under updated records compiled by the Larnaca district government organisation (EOA). Speaking on Friday, Larnaca EOA ...

A second vessel from the Global Sumud Flotilla sailed into Kato Paphos harbour at around 8pm on Friday. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the boat was accompanied into the ...

Chief returning officer Elikkos Elia on Friday urged all 569,182 registered voters to take part in Sunday’s parliamentary elections and choose the 56 MPs who will represent them over the next ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday evening highlighted the “shared historical experiences” of Cyprus and India as he addressed a state banquet held in his honour by Indian President Droupadi Murmu ...

The legal service have rejected allegations that police-chief Themistos Arnaoutis and other police officers avoided prosecution in the Stylianou case for reasons of “public interest”, insisting the decision was based ...

Veterinarians warned on Friday they may refuse to carry out foot and mouth disease sampling unless police protection is guaranteed, following what they describe as escalating threats and violent incidents ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday called for India to become a permanent member of the United Nations security council, following a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the latter’...

An administrative court ruling has halted construction of a 3.7-megawatt solar park within the Latsia-Yeri municipality after a permanent injunction was issued suspending the validity of the project’s building ...

The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) announced on Friday that new regulations governing replacements between Gesy personal doctors will come into force next month to curb abuses that allowed some GPs ...