#Cyprus

Good news on the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) front, but priority must now shift to implementing measures that will bring electricity prices down between now and 2030, when the GSI is ...

Clashes between Ael fans and police ahead of a highly anticipated but ‘high risk’ game with Apollon prompted authorities to call off the match. The decision was met with only ...

It is already evident that tables this year have not be laden with the green and burgundy varieties of sweet grapes we have been used to in Cyprus – another inconvenience ...

Cyprus ‘had no other choice’ but to bring in US experts to help with corruption-related investigations, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday, as he announced a designated budget would go ...

If you live in a populated area, you will have seen or heard the laughing dove, the small lilac pigeon with a pinkish underside, which sounds as if it is ...

Former Green party member Efi Xanthou has joined Volt Cyprus, she announced on Saturday. “It’s time to get back in the game,” she said in a post on her ...

The public has largely responded to calls for blood donations, meaning available reserves should be back to normal next week, head of the blood bank Androula Panayiotou said on Saturday. ...

The fisheries department hit back on Saturday against an audit office report suggesting it may have squandered public funds as a result of an “unacceptable” tender process. A report has ...

The fire in Pissouri which broke out on Friday night burned 3.5 donums of wild shrub and olive trees, the forestry department said on Saturday. It took around four and a ...

The first of five Instagram spots aimed at offering idyllic backgrounds for pictures has been rolled out at Fig Tree Bay in Protaras, the municipality announced on Saturday. With a ...

Turkey is undermining efforts to resume negotiations by seeking a two-state solution on the island, Permanent Representative of Cyprus at the United Nations Maria Michail said in a letter to ...

Every postcard, mug, ashtray or keyring that depicts a map of Cyprus is likely based on the work of one man: an artist who – though forced from the island time ...

A crusade on X has been launched to legalise the personal cultivation of cannabis in Cyprus. In recent weeks in Cyprus, the platform has been flooded with adverts from an ...

Cabinet on Friday approved a planning-permit amnesty plan that is expected to allow thousands of ‘trapped buyers’ to obtain a title deed, after they were unable to do so due ...

The EU’s anti-fraud office (Olaf) is investigating Cyprus’ fisheries department over a tender which the audit office on Friday said contained “unacceptable” conditions and cost €1.5 million more that the ...

A seaside walking path in Kissonerga in Paphos cost the state more than ten times its original budget and took almost two decades to complete, an audit office report revealed. ...

The situation at Paphos airport is “unbearable”, Paphos district tourism development and promotion company (Etap) chairman Kyriacos Drousiotis said on Friday. “The situation is now unbearable at Paphos airport in ...

UN efforts are focusing on facilitating a joint meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar in the presence of UN chief Antonio Guterres, with the Greek ...

Footballers’ association Pasp chairman Spyros Neofitides on Friday demanded that his association be given a cut of the income generated by taxes levied on takings by betting shops. He said ...

Bringing the Emirates into the Great Sea Interconnector (GIS) was at the centre of President Nikos Christodoulides’ trip to Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and the next few days will be ...

There is a need for a new strategic plan for blood donation, Miltos Miltiadou, president of the Pancyprian Thalassaemia Association, said on Friday, in response to messages sent to patients ...

The council of ministers will on Friday discuss a proposal to fast-track legalisation of properties for which it is difficult to obtain title deeds, by securing planning amnesty for certain ...

A bureaucratic mistake rubbished a court decision to deny a migrant’s asylum application it emerged on Friday, after the Administrative Court for International Protection upheld the individual’s appeal. ...

Cypriot Twitch streamer Ahmet Sonuc, better known by his alias Jahrein, was arrested late on Thursday night in the Turkish Mediterranean city of Antalya for “obscenity”. The Antalya police headquarters ...