#Cyprus

Cyprus fully respects the privacy of communications, the attorney-general said on Tuesday, a day ahead of a scheduled meeting with a visiting delegation of the European Parliament committee investigating the ...

The inpatient wing at Polis Chrysochous hospital will reopen on January 15, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Tuesday. He was speaking after a meeting in Polis with head of the ...

Baggage handlers at Larnaca airport held an impromptu two-hour strike on Tuesday morning after 156 staffers were handed redundancy letters. The workers carried out a spontaneous work stoppage from 10am until 12 ...

President of the House of Representatives Annita Demetriou has ruled out speculation about the possibility of her replacing Disy leader Averof Neophytou as the party’s presidential candidate. Speculation had ...

In today’s episode, ten people working at the prison have been suspended after a Turkish Cypriot inmate at the Nicosia central prisons was beaten to death. In other news, ...

The European Parliament on Monday confirmed that a group of MEPs will this week visit Cyprus and Greece to investigate the development and use of spyware in these member states. ...

Cyprus received on Monday 10 million Swiss francs (10.092m euros) as a donation to deal with the migration crisis at a ceremony in Bern, Switzerland attended by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris. ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides warned on Monday that “tectonic shifts are underway” as he warned that the days of cheap energy and cheap money are over. Petrides made the comments ...

The Health Insurance Organisation – the agency running the national health system or Gesy – was on Monday expected to receive instructions to give a three-day grace period to those doctors who ...

The prison system in Cyprus has seen substantial progress, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday while speaking at the swearing-in ceremony of the Prison Parole Board. This is confirmed by ...

The federation of environmental NGOs (Opok) on Monday criticised the Limassol district administration for its failure to act over illegal constructions within the protected coastal area in Ayios Georgios Alamanou. ...

Police cannot be everywhere, head of the police branch of Isotita union Nicos Loizides said on Monday after Friday’s incidents at the Pournara migrant reception centre, which have so ...

Ten people working at the prison have been suspended after a Turkish Cypriot inmate at the Nicosia central prisons was beaten to death, the justice ministry announced on Monday. Justice ...

The Greens party on Monday slammed the findings of an animal police investigation into the death of a cat after it was found dismembered, which the party suspects was carried ...

Following developments in Russia and Ukraine, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis on Monday assured that Cyprus would not face a wheat shortage in the foreseeable future. Kadis’ comments came in response ...

In today’s episode, the leader of the People’s Party in the north, Kudret Ozersay, accused the United States of putting its own national interests ahead of regional stability ...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have had major socio-economic repercussions reflected in slower eco-nomic growth and rampant inflation together with a related severe cost of living crisis in ...

Outgoing president Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday claimed that he was handing over a Cyprus “better than the one he received”. In an interview with ‘INSIDER’ magazine and in relation to ...

Police on Sunday arrested one person in connection to Friday’s incidents at the Pournara migrant reception centre, to facilitate authorities with their investigations. Four more arrest warrants are pending, ...

121 Turkish Cypriot exceptional citizenships handed out in just one day, and that does not include other naturalisations By Esra Aygin Four political parties and a trade union have sued the ...

Delays in the post-mortem examinations have raised suspicions British national James Palmer used to visit the island often, mainly to take advantage of its clean waters and warm weather to ...

How the Cyprus problem will play out in the near future will likely depend on the outcome of the island’s impending presidential election in February and the new political ...

They use a lot of plastic, so why are they so popular? “One garden with artificial grass is equivalent to 950,000 plastic straws,” a post by website the Grass People warned ...

But Cyprus has the potential to become the Singapore of the Mediterranean Increasing numbers of IT and FinTech companies are relocating to the island, bringing with them thousands of professionals ...