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Many suspicious deaths of Nigerians, have been warned against going to north By Esra Aygin The Nigerian Federal Government has advised Nigerians against going to the northern part of Cyprus ...

Vaccination gaps in EU populations must be closed as a “matter of top priority”, the EU’s Cypriot Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides said on Friday, with Brussels recommending that ...

Main opposition Akel on Thursday sought to turn up the heat on the administration, revealing that several beneficiaries of the ‘golden passports’ scheme made significant donations to the ruling party. ...

The monthly minimum wage has been set at €940 and will be implemented at the start of the new year, Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos announced. The “historic” move came after Wednesday’...

The Bar Association has investigated 20 to 25 large legal firms and €70,000 in fines have been paid after they were named in various reports into the citizenship by investment scheme, the association’...

Immigration is developing into Cyprus’ “second national problem”, Disy leader and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou said on Monday. Speaking after a meeting with Interior Minister Nicos Nouris, Neophytou, who has ...

It’s significant, but serious challenges remain With the world gripped by an ever-deteriorating energy crisis, with gas supplies and prices playing a central role, the discovery of a new ...

Government rushes to pass bill to prevent takeover of systemic bank The government is faced with a race against time to ensure it has the legal power to prevent the ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nick Theodoulou Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides in a rare outburst on Friday said the public debate surrounding the citizenship by investment scheme revealed “political hypocrisy exposed ...

By Christodoulos Mavroudis and Nick Theodoulou The citizenship by investment scheme sparked a blazing row on Thursday at the House watchdog committee as Interior Minister Nicos Nouris branded the auditor-general’...

Part of a ‘top secret’ plan on how to settle the north of the island in the wake of the 1974 Turkish invasion was published in Turkish Cypriot media on Wednesday. ...

Climate sceptics have now moved away from climate denial to climate delay By Georgia Savvidou Cypriots are expected to experience the effects of climate change sooner and to a higher ...

The citizenship by investment scheme remained “fragile until the end”, resulting in the loss of millions in public revenue, the Audit Office said on Monday as it published its report ...

Court orders currently see one plant in limbo but communities are all unwilling to host facility Buoyed by a recent court interim order freezing the process to move an asphalt ...

Bank of Cyprus (BoC) said on Friday it had received and unanimously rejected “unequivocally” three unsolicited, conditional, non-binding proposals from Lone Star relating to a possible cash offer for the ...

Over 17 per cent of the population in Cyprus, or 154,000 people, was at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2021, the statistical office (Cystat) revealed on Thursday. This means 17,3 per cent ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis warned on Wednesday that Ineia landowners were entitled to stage protests but not to engage in extreme behaviour or cause damage after the community leader threatened ...

The health ministry has prepared a draft plan which details how the state will handle Covid-19 in the months ahead, such as the protocol at schools. The plan is expected ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides has warned opposition parties not to start “making noises” about Germany seeking a VAT exemption on a new consumer levy on energy consumption, saying it was ...

Solving the Cyprus problem and solving the energy crisis go hand in hand With the European energy crisis intensifying and the likelihood of complete Russian gas cut-off increasing – Russian gas ...

The number of irregular arrivals detected entering the EU via the eastern Mediterranean route remains high, with entry through Cyprus accounting for more than half of 22,601 arrivals—over 11,300 individuals, in ...

Almost all the presidential candidates piled on Nicos Christodoulides on Thursday, slamming him for what they called his apparent attempt to dodge the televised debates scheduled for next month, with ...

Suspended sentence for public employee found guilty in bribery case A former ministry of interior engineer has avoided jail for the second time after the Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed ...

Piggybacking on the ongoing spyware affair in Greece, opposition parties here on Tuesday demanded an investigation into allegations of surveillance of private communications, with the government in turn accusing its ...