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Due to snowfall the roads leading to Troodos (Platres – Troodos, Karvounas – Troodos and Prodromos – Troodos) remain closed to traffic, police announced on Wednesday. The following roads are only accessibly with ...

In today’s episode, the most important thing is to listen, not just to leaders, but to society, the UN secretary general’s personal envoy to Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin ...

February will be a special month for music lovers on the island as a number of exciting performances are coming up. In the world of classical music and piano masters, ...

Weather system ‘Avgi’ continues to affect the island on Wednesday with rains, isolated storms and snowfall expected in the mountains. Hail is also likely and snow may at times be ...

Limassol-based Tototheo Maritime, a leading provider of maritime satellite communications and technologies, on Tuesday announced its partnership with Orion Reederei, a prominent ship management company based in Germany. The company ...

The state scholarships foundation should publish its announcements and application forms in English and Turkish as well as Greek, the ombudswoman recommended on Tuesday. The announcement came after a complaint ...

The ratio of fossil fuels in gross available energy increased slightly both in the EU and in Cyprus in 2022, a trend which signified a small increase in Europe’s reliance ...

The UN Security Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution extending the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) mandate, which expires on Wednesday, for one more year. The UN said that ...

Residents of areas near the Dhekelia power plant threatened on Tuesday to “shut down” the station, frustrated with what they say are broken promises that the facility would cease to ...

Opposition parties gave a lukewarm response on Tuesday to President Nikos Christodoulides’ presentation of government goals for 2024 made a day earlier. “Certainly the president and the government will be judged ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday heard about shady practices in the area of Polis, where Turkish Cypriot land is reportedly being used for growing crops in ‘under the table’ transactions between lessees ...

Attorney General George Savvides strongly denied corruption charges on Tuesday after a lawyer accused his office of collaborating with a billionaire Russian oligarch to allow an allegedly illegal $113.4 million deal ...

Theatre group Solo for Three is wrapping up its production of Venus in Fur, with just three more shows spread in Nicosia and Limassol. Its next performance on January 31 is ...

A man died on Tuesday afternoon from a traffic accident on the Kolossi-Akrotiri road in Limassol, police said. The car, in which a father and his son were travelling, was ...

A prisoner was taken to Nicosia General on Tuesday after he went to the prison infirmary with facial injuries, the prisons department said. At around 3pm, the convict was taken ...

One of the trade unions representing workers at the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) alleged on Tuesday there are plans afoot to privatise and “plunder” the organisation, to the detriment ...

Birth rates among Cypriots dropped by over 400 children in a year, the Elam-led ad hoc House committee on demographics heard on Tuesday. After the session, committee chair and Elam MP ...

December 2023, with an average islandwide temperature of 14.5C, is the second warmest December, the met office said on Tuesday. The weather in December, it said, was extremely warm and extremely ...

The most important thing is to listen, not just to leaders, but to society, the UN secretary general’s personal envoy to Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin said on Tuesday following ...

The Hope for Children CRC Policy Centre (HFC) provided services to more than 8,340 children in Cyprus in 2023, the organisation said on Tuesday, reviewing its work for the past year. HFC ...

All fines that companies paid before the ultimate beneficial owners (UBO) deadline was extended will be returned, it emerged on Tuesday during the House commerce committee. So far, paid fines ...

Satisfaction with the progress of works on the new Cyprus Museum was expressed on Tuesday by Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades and Deputy Minister of Culture Vasiliki Kassianidou. “It’s a ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and Ambassador of Jordan to Cyprus Basheer F. Zoubi on Tuesday met at the ministry’s offices in Nicosia, with the discussions primarily focusing on economic ...

Even though more counterfeit banknotes were removed from circulation in 2023 than in 2022, the overall rate has remained relatively small, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) said on Tuesday. In its ...