Cyprus

Despite flight cancellations and the loss of the Russian tourist market, hotels in Kissonerga have surpassed 90 per cent capacity, the community leader Giorgos Stylianou said Saturday. According to data of ...

A local initiative group has put forward its proposal for the creation of a national park that would act as a ‘green lung’ for the capital to replace the site ...

Extensive damage was caused to a holiday home and two immobilised vehicles after a fire broke out in the Nicosia district, the fire service said early on Saturday. The fire ...

Two Greek Cypriots will appear in court in the north on Monday after they were caught taking photos in a military zone in Mia Milia, it emerged on Saturday. The ...

Week nights in Nicosia have plenty to offer in the summer as annual festivals keep residents entertained with a rich cultural agenda. Faneromeni Arts Festival is back this summer and ...

Police have issued a warning to the public after finding counterfeit €500 bills circulating in the island. The national analysis centre of the police criminal investigation department informed the public that ...

Outdoor activities that could cause a fire should be avoided, police said on Saturday, as temperatures could rise above 40C. Due to soaring temperatures recorded during the summer, and given ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will return to his duties on Tuesday, following seven days of self-isolation after testing positive for coronavirus earlier this week. Anastasiades was diagnosed with coronavirus on Tuesday ...

Cabinet is likely to extend the deadline for tax returns by a month, tax commissioner Sotiris Markides has told the Cyprus News Agency. Individuals and the self-employed must file their ...

A musical duo have come together to make audiences laugh. They are going from strength to strength finds ALIX NORMAN ‘Some doctors like you flat on your back, When they ...

A Cyprus Scops owl has made herself comfortable in an artificial nest, one of about 1,000 owl nesting boxes that have been put up in various locations across the island as ...

The CyBC broadcast the first televised debate of presidential candidates on Thursday night. The guests were Disy leader Averof Neophytou, independent candidate backed by Akel, Andreas Mavroyiannis, and independent candidate ...

Milk producers and cheese makers signed a much-awaited agreement on PDO-certified halloumi, putting an official end to a longstanding row over Cyprus’ famous cheese. The mutually accepted framework, cobbled together ...

It is not very often that we get to hear vibrant Afro-Brazilian sounds live on the island. In fact, there is only one band in the country that plays the ...

Marathon talks on the introduction of a minimum wage ended without success on Friday, with social partners set to hold fresh meetings next week. Labour Minister Kyriacos Koushos, who held ...

An overwhelming majority of people in the north of the island believe that corruption there has increased over the past year, while a staggering 90 per cent of those questioned do ...

President of the HIO board Thomas Antoniou said on Friday the first person he will inform of his resignation is President Nicos Anastasiades. On Thursday Antoniou said he would resign ...

A row over the state’s refusal to sponsor the Cyprus Rally at WRC and ERC level over the next four years escalated on Friday amid allegations of misuse of ...

A local traditional pasta has been adopted by the EU Commission as a new protected geographical indication (PGI) from Cyprus. ‘Makaronia tis Smilas’ (literally ‘skewered pasta’) or ‘Macaroni tou Sklinitziou’ ...

Over the past few years, Cyprus has been celebrated as one of Europe’s most popular wedding destinations. Whether you permanently live in the country, or are jetting over to ...

A tourist of Chinese origin who visited Ayia Napa last year claims to have been racially targeted and abused by local police, causing him mental health issues. But Famagusta police ...

The first vaccines for monkeypox are expected to arrive in Cyprus on Monday, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday. Health authorities will receive some 1,400 jabs, which will help the ...

A 30-year-old Greek Cypriot man, who admitted to torching a patrol car outside Platres police station while drunk, was remanded in police custody for seven days on Friday. The man ...

President Nicos Anastasiades’ two closest advisors in the Cyprus problem negotiations, Andreas Mavroyiannis and Nicos Christodoulides, turned on each other during the first televised debate of presidential candidates broadcast by ...