Cyprus News

A bakery in Limassol was robbed by two armed men in the early morning hours on Thursday. According to police, two hooded men smashed the glass entrance of the bakery ...

Cyprus property sales fell sharply last year according to the Deloitte Cyprus Real Estate Market Report released on Tuesday. The total contracts of sales for Cypriot properties dropped 23 per cent ...

Murex, one of the most important financial software producers in Europe, will soon open offices in Cyprus, according to tech industry sources. The company is planning a move to Nicosia. ...

Pomos has now joined forces with the Paphos regional board of tourism with the aim of upgrading its tourist facilities and welcoming more visitors to the area. “In the context ...

Two people died from Covid and 414 new infections were detected from 34,079 tests, the health ministry said on Wednesday. At the same time there has been an increase in hospitalisations with 165 ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris defended a decision to install razor wire along the buffer zone to stop migrants from crossing, challenging Turkish Cypriot detractors to stop the flow from Turkey. ...

Opposition parties on Wednesday slammed the government for delaying the review of the anti-stalking bill, expressing concerns that there will be no time for its discussion and tabling for vote ...

A 16-year-old Limassol girl who had been reported by her family as missing was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of possessing stolen property. Police said they located the girl in ...

A 79-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the explosion last February of a device placed on the car of a 40-year-old man in Limassol. The suspect was ...

The Akamas national park is expected to be ready before the end of 2022, as all key actions necessary were on track and within the deadline, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis told ...

The ad hoc House committee set up to examine issues relating to politically exposed persons (PEP) is to disband ahead of the parliamentary elections in May, but work will continue ...

A total of 58 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The government aims to help the economic sectors stricken by the pandemic but also to invest in alternative areas with emphasis on the relocation of companies to Cyprus, research and ...

Expectations that further relaxations of Covid measures would be announced on Wednesday were crushed after the cabinet postponed its decision following a spike in cases this week. The plan was ...

Food waste, the formation of a strategic plan for energy and the climate are top of the agenda for the House environment committee and the ‘parallel parliament’ for the environment, ...

Local activist has called on people to walk in migrants’ shoes this Saturday in a 20km hike from Kokkinotrimithia to Nicosia’s old city centre. Starting from the metal gate ...

The Nicosia district court remanded a man for four days on Wednesday on suspicion of grooming a child for sexual exploitation using social media, police said. The suspect was arrested ...

The Famagusta reference hospital is currently 96 per cent full, its medical director Dr Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Wednesday. She said that 72 patients were being treated at the hospital, with the ...

The bill for the creation of a separate ministry of culture was approved by the cabinet on Wednesday, Education minister Prodromos Prodromou announced on Twitter. Culture currently comes under the ...

The European Commission on Wednesday announced the launch of the ‘EU Scholarships for the Turkish Cypriot community Programme for the Academic Year 2021/22’ funded under the Aid Programme. In this round, ...

People with a disability in Cyprus experienced the lowest rate of housing cost overburden in the EU in 2019, Eurostat has reported. The housing cost overburden rate is defined as the ...

Two more children aged four and seven have been transferred to the paediatric ward at Makarios hospital with coronavirus, director of the ward Avraam Elia said on Wednesday. The two ...

Just as Cyprus began to raise its hopes of an influx of British tourists from the end of May, and with preparations underway to take bookings from April1, according to ...

Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs increases the risk of causing an accident, police said on Wednesday after they caught 15 people driving while on drugs in the last ...