#Cyprus

Lawmakers on the House Legal Affairs Committee on Wednesday examined the controversial issue of conversion therapy as part of efforts to amend the law and criminalise the practice. Conversion therapies ...

A secondary school student has filed a complaint that she was sexually harassed and abused in a classroom during school hours, police said on Wednesday. But the report was later ...

The imminent addition of glamping and hostels as tourist accommodation options, should help attract a new niche market, especially young visitors, the House Commerce committee heard on Tuesday. The committee ...

Cyprus, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Malta on Tuesday proposed a new EU law that would ban people from keeping dangerous or endangered animals as pets. The four countries presented a position ...

A new protocol on financial support for the north from Turkey was branded a ‘betrayal’ and ‘surrender’ to Ankara by Turkish Cypriot labour unions on Tuesday as a discussion in ‘...

Cyprus is probably the last country in Europe to introduce legal gender recognition in its national legislation to allow people to change their name and gender marker in official documents, ...

A picture tells a story just as well as, if not better than, a lot of written words. In a new video series titled, “Weekend Escapes,” Alexandros Tsangarides takes you ...

The ageing of the population as shown by the latest census is very worrying, MPs said on Tuesday after a meeting of the ad hoc committee on demographics. Committee president, ...

In the latest twist to the ongoing halloumi saga, the House agriculture committee on Tuesday decided to invite Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis to their next meeting to shed light on ...

Staff at Hellenic Bank on Tuesday announced they will go on a 24-hour warning strike next week, warning the measures will be intensified if the bank’s management fails to “...

The European Commission is “concerned” about the recent decision taken by Turkish Cypriot authorities to open another stretch of beach in Varosha, its spokesman Stefan de Kersmacher said on Tuesday. ...

Exploratory drilling for natural gas off Cyprus now underway by Eni-Total should take 60 days, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Tuesday as EU Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen told ...

The goal for Cyprus is to see over two million foreign visitors until the end of the year, Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios said on Tuesday. Speaking after the ...

Unficyp on Monday condemned an attack by unidentified people against a UN patrol vehicle on Saturday evening. The incident took place at around 10pm inside the buffer zone, approximately three ...

There are no problems in the supply chain and no shortage in supermarket stocks are expected as a result of the war in Ukraine, executive secretary of the Pancyprian Supermarkets ...

Members of the scientific team are expected in the next few days to submit recommendation regarding the use of face masks indoors and whether the measure against Covid-19 should be ...

In the framework of the European Artion Programme, members of Paphos Civil Defence on Sunday successfully carried out a search-and-rescue exercise for missing persons in the Mandria community of Paphos. ...

Monday marks the start of Forest Protection Week, which will feature a series of event aimed at raising public awareness regarding the protection of forests, the forestry department said on ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on Monday stressed the importance of implementing all relevant UN resolutions to reverse Turkey’s actions and provocations in Varosha. His comments came after a meeting ...

A 32-year-old man committed indecent acts in Limassol in the early hours of Monday, as a result of which the police were forced to handcuff him. According to lemesosblog, shortly ...

Deadly ground nets should be removed immediately and a zero-tolerance approach taken towards their use in Cyprus, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) said on Monday. Farmers and landowners use ...

One young Cypriot travelled into the depths of Africa’s Limpopo, and there discovered what the West has lost It took Tonia Constantinou two full days to return home from ...

Unficyp will raise the decision taken by Turkish Cypriot authorities to open another stretch of beach in Varosha with the Security Council, spokesperson for the peacekeeping force Aleem Siddique said ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Friday a man on remand for allegedly taking payment to secure boys did not have to do the army was not employed at the ...