Oliver Wu

By Alexandra Epifaniou and Oliver Wu A popular jumping location at the Cape Greco sea caves was fenced off in May over safety and environmental concerns. However, during a recent ...

€1 million in emergency aid for the cleanup of illegal waste dumping sites was approved by the Council of Ministers on Thursday, the third consecutive year in which such aid has ...

Lakatamia municipality announced on Thursday that it will open three cooling centres during heatwaves to help residents cope with extreme temperatures. The centres are intended to “address the effects of ...

Scottish actor Clive Russell, most famous for playing Brynden Tully, known as “The Blackfish”, in Game of Thrones, will be attending Cyprus Comic Con in October, the organisation announced on ...

Sirens will sound on the mornings of Wednesday July 15 and Monday July 20 throughout Cyprus-to mark the anniversaries of the 1974 coup and invasion, Civil Defence said on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the ...

There is “a serious lack of long-term planning for school infrastructure” scientific and technical chamber (Etek) president Constantinos Constanti said on Tuesday after an Audit Office report said some prefabricated ...

The Ecologists movement on Tuesday called for an investigation into multiple reports of cats being shot in a residential portion of the Lakatamia area of Nicosia. Three cats in recent ...

The police are not currently participating in any investigations related to the Mafia State case and are awaiting instructions from the team of independent investigators, spokesman Vyron Vyronos said on ...

A second suspect was arrested on Sunday in connection to a three-week-old case about a 77-year-old woman who had €26,000 in property stolen from her, the police announced on Monday. The ...

The interior ministry on Thursday denied claims by the Famagusta district government that pending regulations had caused the processing of planning permission applications for single-family homes to grind to a ...

Hundreds of packages of smuggled tobacco products were found in a trailer in Ayia Napa on Wednesday, the customs department and the police said on Thursday. The owner was not ...

Thirty-nine undeclared salaried employees were identified by the labour inspection department in April following checks at 156 locations, the department said on Tuesday. Sixteen fines, totalling to €88,200, were given. The department ...

Increasing the lowest pensions and reducing the cut in pensions for early retirement were the two main items discussed by Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas with the House of Elders, it ...

United Nations medals were given to 107 peacekeepers on Monday, honouring their service in Cyprus, the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) said. The peacekeepers come from Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Ghana, ...

European Commission representatives toured many of the sites being funded under the Thalia 2021-2027 programme last week during an annual review, as some of the projects near completion or are ...

A small island nation that takes merely a couple hours to drive across, Cyprus has consistently had one of the lowest electric vehicle adoption rates in Europe but recent data ...

The United States naval ship USS Arleigh Burke docked in Limassol on Thursday ahead of the Fourth of July on Saturday, when America will be marking 250 years since the Declaration ...

A dead whale was found on the beach in Kazivera on the western coast in the north on Thursday. The whale was a juvenile, around 4.15 metres in length and weighing 1.5 ...

The share of electricity generation from renewable sources in Cyprus has steadily increased over the first five months of the year, reaching 36.88 per cent in May, according to Eurostat data ...

An ancient juglet was returned to Cyprus after being identified during an online auction in the United Kingdom, the antiquities department said on Wednesday. The artefact is a base-ring juglet, ...

Over 150 people gathered outside the presidential palace on Monday evening to protest the start of a multi-day meeting of the Gaza Board of Peace in Cyprus. The protest was organized ...

Andri Hadjiandreou was sworn in Monday as Aglandjia’s new deputy mayor following her victory in Sunday’s election. The ceremony took place at Nicosia district government offices. Hadjiandreou beat ...

Two food delivery drivers were injured after being attacked and robbed by unidentified motorcyclists in separate incidents in Limassol early on Monday, police said. It was not immediately clear whether ...

Unified Schools, an initiative to promote athletics and leadership opportunities between those with and without intellectual disabilities in schools, was highlighted at an event between Special Olympics Cyprus and the ...