Cyprus News

A minimum wage will be introduced “in the coming months”, the government said on Tuesday, after a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades and relevant stakeholders ended in disagreement. Despite the ...

Two men, aged 19 and 26, have been jailed for two months and a third, aged 32, for three months with a three-year suspension after violent attack during a U19 Apoel-Pafos FC match ...

The attorney general on Tuesday said he will appeal a 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver who killed a Swedish mother in a fatal Ayia Napa crash earlier this ...

Police on Tuesday called on people to be alert after receiving complaints from people that they are being asked to hand over social media passwords, especially on Instagram. According to ...

A 27-year-old man, who has been arrested on suspicion of drug possession in Limassol, was expected to be remanded on Tuesday, police have said. The illegal drugs were found during ...

The first ever recorded sighting of the African desert warbler in Cyprus has been confirmed as the unexpected visitor from the Sahara made its way to the Akrotiri Peninsula. “This ...

A fire that broke out near the industrial area in Ypsonas early on Tuesday was brought under control two hours later, destroying about 20,000 square metres of dry grass and wild ...

A drunken tourist was arrested at a Kato Paphos hotel after management called the police following a raucous disturbance, in a case which saw the 51-year-old resisting arrest. Paphos police ...

Larnaca police were investigating a case of attempted murder on Tuesday after an explosion occurred in a vehicle being driven in Oroklini. According to a police statement to the Cyprus ...

On Tuesday morning the weather will be mostly clear. Winds will be mainly south-westly to north-westly, initially light, 3 Beaufort, becoming light to moderate in the afternoon, 3 to 4 Beaufort and on ...

In today’s episode, a travel company executive in Cyprus said he expected the airport and airline chaos gripping Europe to subside in the coming weeks as thousands of flights ...

Paphos police are continuing intensive investigations into a case of threats and illegal possession of a firearm that occurred outside a nightclub in the early hours of Sunday. Following the ...

Presidential elections will be held Sunday, February 5 and the runoff will be on Sunday, February 12, the ministry of interior has announced. On Friday, December 23, the decree of the minister of ...

Police proceeded with the arrest of a 35-year-old resident of Paphos, to facilitate investigation into the case of theft, assault, and causing actual bodily harm. The incident happened at noon ...

Government doctors in accident and emergency departments of the island’s hospitals held a three-hour work stoppage on Tuesday. “The main reason [for our stoppage] is the understaffing of doctors, ...

Cyprus should implement firmer and more transparent means of protecting public health as it moves ahead with its gas exploitation programme, according to a study by the Cyprus University of ...

Paphos police are investigating a case of armed robbery at a kiosk in Chloraka which happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning. According to the police statement, around 4:00 am ...

The Deputy Ministry of Shipping on Monday announced that minister Vassilios Demetriades is currently in Japan on an official visit. During his time in the country, the minister will hold ...

PwC Cyprus on Monday said that international investments are crucial to the Cypriot economy, something which was highlighted during the Invest Cyprus International Investment Awards. The event took place on ...

The government has received a request to transfer electricity to the north because one of its two power stations stopped working, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Monday. Turkish Cypriot ...

The ambassadors of France, Germany and the Netherlands visited Pournara reception center on Monday in what was seen as acknowledgement of the problem facing Cyprus and of the need for ...

Disy leader and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou on Monday unveiled his 100-point plan to reform and modernise the country, pledging that under his administration Cyprus would transition to “the next ...

Lawmakers on Monday made more progress on a government bill aimed at reducing the stock of non-performing loans on banks’ books – a pledge Cyprus made to the EU in exchange ...

Travel company executive Akis Kelepeshis expects the airport and airline chaos gripping Europe to subside in the coming weeks as thousands of flights have already been cancelled and more people ...