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Cyprus will continue with bold reforms in 2026, building on changes introduced in 2025, President Nikos Christodoulides pledged on Tuesday. He was speaking ahead of a cabinet meeting at the presidential palace. ...

Cameras will be installed at 50 more schools across the island during the next year, the education minister told MPs on Tuesday. Athena Michaelidou was responding to a query as to ...

Tax reform measures approved by the House of Representatives on Monday fail to deliver a fairer system, trade union Peo said on Tuesday. Peo said the goal of creating a ...

Substantially bolstering the National Guard’s deterrent power is the government’s priority and duty, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday during a festive visit to a Larnaca’s army ...

A 27-year-old man was remanded in police custody for six days on Tuesday by the Limassol district court for drugs possession. The suspect was arrested after police found 175g of ...

A war of words broke out on Tuesday between civil servants union Pasydy and the Isotita trade union over working conditions at Cyprus’ central prisons. Pasydy’s prison branch accused ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris has formally renounced his lifelong ministerial pension, as well as the planned lump sum, saying on Tuesday that he did not wish to enjoy any privilege ...

Renewed calls for cooperation over teacher evaluations were made on Tuesday a day after the House ended nearly a year of political deadlock by approving a new system as teachers ...

Turkey has itself to blame for the fact that it is not invited to participate in regional collaborations, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday, citing the country’s lack of ...

Contracts were signed on Tuesday to resume works at the Liopetri estuary, with €3.6 million allocated over a 12-month period. The contract provides for the continuation and completion of works on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday his shared cooperation with Israel and Greece in issues such as energy and defence remained strong and unwavering. Christodoulides was in Israel for a ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Monday dismissed suggestions of dissension inside the government regarding the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project, after the leader of the Diko party accused the government ...

The trial against the Greek Cypriot woman arrested in the north, along with four others in July, was completed on Monday after fines amounting to 12,000 and 100,000 Turkish lira (around €240 and €2000) ...

Two forestry department employees were implicated among three suspects in an “extremely serious” hare poaching case in Paphos, with the game service accusing staff of exploiting access to restricted areas ...

Australia has suspended imports of dairy products from Cyprus after removing the country from its list of territories considered free from foot-and-mouth disease, citing reports of an outbreak in the ...

The investigation into Mafia State, the controversial book by investigative journalist Makarios Drousiotis, has cost the state more than €1 million to date, according to the president of the independent authority ...

The trilateral cooperation between Cyprus, Greece and Israel does not constitute a threat to Turkey, Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Saturday, warning however that Ankara would take “necessary ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to Jerusalem on Monday to take part in the tenth trilateral summit between Cyprus, Greece and Israel, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. “The ...

The European Union will facilitate a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem but will not act as a mediator between the parties, the EU’s envoy for Cyprus Johannes Hahn ...

Four experts from the EU Commission’s veterinary emergency team have arrived in Cyprus to investigate the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in two livestock units in the north, the veterinary ...

Justice Minister Constantinos Fitiris was urged on Friday by the association for the protection of the rights of prisoners to take immediate action to address the situation at the central ...

Cyprus’ population, excluding the north, was estimated at 983,000 at the end of 2024, marking an increase of 1.7 per cent from the 966,400 recorded at the end of 2023, the Statistical Service (Cystat) said ...

Danish European Affairs Minister Marie Bjerre on Thursday night said that Cyprus should focus on “security and defence and competitiveness” when the island takes over the Council of the European ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Friday held a telephone call with his Iranian counterpart Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, with the call coming just days after Iran summoned Cyprus’ ambassador in Tehran ...