Ping pong for peace in Nicosia
We visited Pingy Pongo for Peace, a bicommunal table-tennis event in Nicosia – organised by Pingy Pongo and HADE – bringing together people from both sides of the island for friendly play, ...
Bird flu infected goose found at Athalassa park
Visitors have been warned not to approach or feed birds at Nicosia’s Athalassa park after H5N1 avian influenza was detected in a goose at a lake there, the ...
Request to change Harmanci’s title came from government
The request that Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci not be referred to as a mayor at the Cyprus Forum came directly from “Republic of Cyprus officials”, the forum’s ...
Battle over Mitsero asphalt plant continues at Supreme Court
Elected representatives and residents of the Nicosia district village of Mitsero and seven other nearby villages held a demonstration outside the Supreme Court on Thursday against plans to build an ...
Nicosia mayor faces call to resign amid deepening Makarios avenue row
A committee representing shopkeepers and residents in old Nicosia demanded on Wednesday that Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos resign, hours after he told a Disy delegation that the municipality has drawn ...
Kapodistrian opens Nicosia campus, welcomes first students
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens welcomed its first, first year students at its Cyprus branch in Nicosia on Monday, marking the start of the 2026 to 2027 academic year.
The ...
Children reimagine greener Nicosia streets
Children came up with a host of ideas for making their neighbourhood greener, from planting more trees and adding benches to creating spaces for play, walking and socialising, during an ...
Bicommunal cleanup operation held across Nicosia’s divide
Dozens of people joined a bicommunal cleanup operation in and around Nicosia’s old town on Saturday morning, with volunteers picking litter from both sides of the island’s divided ...
Court rejects release request of German real estate agent
The court of appeal has unanimously rejected a request by alleged German usurper Ewa Izabela Kuenzel, who is accused of having usurped Greek-Cypriot property in the occupied north, to end ...
Woman remanded in custody over Nicosia car arson case
A 25-year-old woman was remanded in custody for four days on Sunday in connection with a car arson case in Nicosia dating back to May.
Police said the woman was ...
Nicosia mayor calls for greater input on local plan
Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos on Friday called for greater public participation in consultations on the city’s new local plan, saying he particularly wanted to see more young people get ...
Faults at Nicosia pedestrian crossings ‘to be resolved immediately’, mayor says
Faults at pelican crossings in Nicosia, which saw pedestrian buttons attached to traffic lights render no change to the lighting sequence, are to be “resolved immediately”, the city’s mayor ...
Nicosia to join World Cleanup Day with bi-communal action
Nicosia will host a bi-communal environmental cleanup on September 19, as part of the Let’s Do It! Cyprus campaign and World Cleanup Day, organisers said on Wednesday.
The annual campaign ...
Two in custody over Nicosia burglary
Two people were arrested on Sunday afternoon as part of an investigation of a case concerning the conspiracy to commit a felony, burglary, theft and malicious damage, committed in August ...
Old GSP: a missed opportunity for Nicosia?
More than 25 years after the stadium closed and 15 years after plans were drawn up for its redevelopment, the broad concrete terraces and stark steelwork of the old GSP stand like ...
€2.3m Nicosia flood prevention project to begin
A €2.3 million infrastructure project to repair and reinforce a 50-year-old stormwater culvert beneath Digeni Akrita Avenue in Nicosia is set to begin, the Nicosia district government organisation (EOA) announced on ...
Section of Byron Avenue to close for EAC works
A section of Byron Avenue in central Nicosia will close from Saturday for works to upgrade the EAC transmission network, Nicosia Municipality said on Friday.
The closure will be in ...
Prison guard attacked by inmate at central prisons
A prison guard was attacked and beaten by an inmate at the central prisons on Wednesday.
The prison guard’s branch of the trade union Pasydy condemned the incident and ...
Nicosia seeks public input on new local plan
The Nicosia municipality is set to hold a public consultation on the new local plan for the city centre on Friday.
“The aim of the consultation is to inform the ...
Two remanded after attempted murder in Nicosia
Two men, aged 24 and 21, were remanded for eight days by Nicosia district court on Tuesday after the attempted murder of a 21-year-old man early in the morning.
The victim was ...
Nicosia faces building safety crisis
There are 711 buildings in the Nicosia district officially confirmed as dangerous, according to updated figures released by the Nicosia district government organisation (EOA) on Friday.
The organisation is calling for ...
Shop owners decry ‘artificial death’ of Makarios Avenue
The joint platform of Makarios Avenue shopkeepers on Friday claimed that any reduction in traffic in central Nicosia was the result of the area’s “artificial death”, caused by what ...
Car fire in Peristerona extinguished by elderly owner
A car parked in an open garage, outside the house of the 75-year-old owner, in Peristerona, Nicosia, caught fire at 3.15am on Friday.
The 75-year-old woman put the fire out ...
Tenant accuses Nicosia EOA of inaction over ‘dangerous’ building
A businessman renting a store in the former Othello cinema building in Engomi has accused the Nicosia district local government organisation (EOA) of failing to act on a structure it ...