Cyprus News

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday discussed the legal service’s opinion on the halloumi PDO (protected designation of origin) with cheesemakers, who have been reluctant to follow the specifications on ...

Cyprus will engage with other countries in the region to set up a mechanism to provide timely firefighting assistance, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday. Ahead of an anticipated ...

An Italian MP met officials in Nicosia on Monday as he prepares a report about Turkey’s occupation of Varosha for the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). ...

Secondary schools in Larnaca are overcrowded as authorities delay building new premises and making repairs to existing buildings, the federation of parents’ associations of Larnaca secondary and technical schools said ...

The Ministry of health, took part in a workshop at the University of Nicosia as part of its drive to develop a national strategy for improving the lives of the ...

Cypriot nurse Elena Nicolaidou has been honoured with a Daisy award for extraordinary nurses, given by the US-based Daisy Foundation, it was announced on Monday by the board of the ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides on Monday congratulated the graduates of the frogmen training school for conscripted navy men, at a ceremony at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base. “Today is the ...

A series of events to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Cyprus aims to lead to many more, ALIX NORMAN finds Nine thousand kilometres from Cyprus, Japan is ...

Nicosia anti-narcotics police are investigating two cases of illegal importation of drugs, anabolic substances and pharmaceuticals through the post office, police said on Monday. The first involves the import of ...

Cruise traffic to Limassol this year will be significantly up on 2021, with further growth projected for 2023, according to Nawaf Abdulla CEO of DP World Limassol, which operates the cruise terminal ...

A 38-year-old man from Polis Chrysochous is wanted in connection with a case of assault and causing bodily harm, dangerous and reckless driving, causing malicious damage, obstructing a police officer ...

Cooperation on technological issues between Cyprus and the US has been strengthened following a series of meetings held by Deputy Minister for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos with ...

Nicosia water board will save 120 tons of paper and €240,000 a year by billing consumers digitally, it said on Monday. The water board has been trying to eradicate paper bills sent ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos’ comments on the presidential elections, in which, among other things, he accused Akel of being British agents sparked widespread reaction, with some condemning him as anachronistic. In a ...

A pensioner has lost thousands after a woman tricked her out of €14,000 to help with the sale of property, head of Paphos CID Michalis Nikolaou said on Monday. The 72-year-old ...

By Home in Cyprus, As an ancient Greek proverb goes: “The greatest gift in life is friendship (Το μεγαλύτερο δώρο της ζωής είναι η φιλία, και το έχω λάβε)”. In 2022, people from China and Cyprus will once again exchange this precious “gift” ...

A Limassol pensioner has been arrested after he told police on Monday that he had killed his 82-year-old wife, with authorities soon after discovering her bloody body in the garden ...

As part of an operation to combat gambling, police officers raided a coffee shop in Kato Paphos on Sunday afternoon where they found six people playing poker, police said on ...

Acting on a tip off, police in Limassol discovered a pistol and ammunition in an open area. The pistol was wrapped in nylon, police said Monday. They also found an ...

In today’s episode, former Cyprus problem negotiator and career diplomat Andreas Mavroyiannis won a resounding 90 per cent of the votes during Akel’s extraordinary conference on Sunday, which was ...

Inland and in mountainous areas of the island could be hit by thunderstorms and hailstorms on Monday afternoon as the met office forecast mainly fine weather up tp then with ...

Three British women are under arrest following an alleged assault on a nurse at Paphos’ general hospital amid a wave of condemnations by nurses’ unions and the ministry of health. ...

An ambitious programme to protect the Cyprus cedar has been awarded the EU’s LIFE Award in the nature protection category, a fitting accolade for a tree native to the ...

Heavy traffic was observed on parts of the Nicosia-Limassol motorway late on Sunday afternoon due to a large number of accidents, in which no injuries were reported, the Cyprus Broadcasting ...