Cyprus

Almost €140,000 has been paid by the government in salaries to a total of 126 workers who were unable to return to work as a result of the wildfire which tore through ...

The labour inspection department on Tuesday ordered that all outside work be suspended between 12pm and 4pm in areas impacted by the orange weather warning, with high temperatures forecast for ...

The continuous power cuts faced by the north after an explosion at a substation on Friday “would have been more widespread” were it not for the Republic stepping in to ...

Cyprus at the meeting of the informal EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) on Monday called for the immediate mobilisation was needed from both EU institutions and member states regarding the ...

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Huseyin Ozgurgun’s son Salih Ozgurgun was arrested late on Monday night after arriving at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport on an inbound flight ...

Fines for wasting water will be increased from € 51 to € 85 with immediate effect due to the “serious reduction in available water reserves”, the Larnaca self-governance organisation (EOA) announced on Tuesday. “According ...

In a celebration of all things green, clean and plant-based, the Vegan Fam Festival returns this year for another flavoursome edition. Held in Psematismenos village in just a few weeks, ...

Police have launched an investigation after gunshots were fired at a home in the Ayios Athanasios area of Amathus on Monday night. A witness told officers on Tuesday that two ...

The fires that broke out in the Tala community, burning three hectares of land on Tuesday morning have been brought under full control, according to the fire department. “Paphos city ...

A fire broke out near a vehicle close to the Ayia Napa church in Kantou at around 11pm last night, burning approximately five hectares of wild vegetation, dry grasses and ...

Tuesday will see temperatures climb to up to 43 degrees Celsius inland, with skies remaining clear and winds blowing light to moderate at south to northwest at 3 to 4 Beaufort and strong ...

Blue Flags are turning out to be a bone of contention, with the Cyprus Greens saying they can be misleading as they still fly on heavily polluted beaches but Cymepa – ...

Cyprus’ meteorology department has issued two warnings, a yellow one for high temperatures on Monday evening and an orange one, warning that the temperature on Tuesday is to reach 43 degrees ...

The state’s balance sheet for 2023 showed a considerable dip in inflows in tandem with a sharp rise in outflows, with the government paying out around €750 million alone to service ...

Five days after Majed Alashtar, a 13-year-old Syrian refugee, went missing from a state-run shelter in Nicosia, concerns are growing that bullying by older teenagers may have played a role. ...

The biggest challenge facing the government after the Limassol wildfires is “to bring the areas affected back to tourism as soon as possible,” deputy minister of tourism Costas Koumis said ...

The Limassol-Paphos motorway has been reopened to traffic following a Monday afternoon collision that forced the closure of both lanes towards Paphos just past Episkopi. Traffic is now running normally ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides are the likeliest to run for president in the 2028 elections, a new poll published on Monday showed. Asked who they think will ...

A coordination centre for Akamas, established to advance sustainable development and strengthen cooperation between local communities, has started operating, the agriculture ministry said. Housed at the environment department’s Paphos ...

The value of bounced cheques has shown a large decrease in the last four years, the Central Bank of Cyprus said on Monday. It said 255 bounced cheques were issued in 2022, 274 ...

Further desalination units are set to be installed and operational by summer 2026, the agriculture ministry reiterated on Monday. It said addressing the chronic drought problem remains a top priority. A ...

A 26-year-old Greek Cypriot man was arrested in the early hours of Monday in Larnaca on suspicion of drug possession and traffic offences, police said. The incident happened shortly before 2...

An urgent appeal for lifeguards was made on Monday by the municipality of Paralimni-Deryneia as it struggles to staff local beaches over the summer. The municipality said that since 2022, responsibility ...

A new mobile desalination unit was on Monday put into service near Potima beach, in the Paphos village of Kissonerga. The unit will initially produce 2,000 cubic metres of water per ...