#Cyprus

Cyprus’ first-ever national mental health strategy, covering the next three years, was unveiled on Friday by Health Minister Michael Damianos, who also announced that Athalassa psychiatric hospital will be upgraded ...

Authorities are preparing to enforce stricter measures against illegal waste dumping, warning local councils they will face legal action if the problem persists after new measures are implemented. The department ...

Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, has demanded explanations regarding a child abuse case recently uncovered in Larnaca, where five children were reportedly subjected to years ...

The planned court ruling over whether the remains of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was killed in 2005, would be returned to his family, was on Friday postponed. It had initially been ...

More than 5,000 children from 426 age group teams, representing 81 different football academies from Cyprus and abroad, will take part in the 23rd McDonald’s Ayia Napa Youth Soccer Festival, which kicks ...

Accusations made by MPs over the planning and construction of smart bus stops are “very problematic”, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Friday. Speaking to television channel Alpha, he said ...

Bird trappings in the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) fell by five per cent last year, its police said on Friday, adding that since 2016 the number has fallen by 97 per cent. ...

The maintenance and restoration of cemeteries “is one of the most deeply symbolic and morally compelling actions for a place which seeks reconciliation,” bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage co-chairman ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar late on Thursday night denied that the subject of a behind-closed-doors meeting he had held with Turkish ambassador Ali Murat Basceri and the north’s ‘...

The current deadlock over plans to build a solar farm in the buffer zone which separates Cyprus’ two sides has come about because the Greek Cypriot side believes “that it ...

The House plenum on Thursday evening approved the 2025 budget for the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) amid a lively debate over the delays in the advent of natural gas for ...

Women can now enlist voluntarily in the National Guard, for a minimum of six months, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. The law passed with 32 MPs voting in ...

MPs on Thursday called for Auditor-General Andreas Papaconstantinou to intervene on the matter of smart bus stops, with some quarters having alleged that they have been erected the wrong way ...

The former Civil Registry and Migration Department was slow in processing applications for Cypriot citizenship and for permanent residence, as a result of which some 12,000 applications were pending at the ...

The Consumer Protection Service has issued its first fine for violating the maximum resale price of drinking water in designated areas. The fine was imposed on CE Sportcourt Ltd, the ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Thursday unveiled a raft of proposed amendments to laws concerning local government, with the stated aim of “improving the legislative framework for the benefit of ...

Plans for a new solar farm to be built in the buffer zone which separates Cyprus’ two sides appear to have reached something of a deadlock after Wednesday’s meeting ...

Dates were set on Thursday for the next hearings of the trial of the two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by news company Al Jazeera into the ...

The three-member committee appointed to examine the recalls process for cars imported from the EU and third countries began its first public hearings on Thursday. The first witness to testify ...

The health ministry spent more than €10 million sending Cypriot patients abroad to receive treatment in 2022, the audit office announced on Wednesday. In a report written on the health ministry’s ...

The European Union is “committed to supporting Cyprus on its journey towards reunification”, European parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Wednesday. Addressing a European parliament debate on the Cyprus problem, ...

The outcome of Wednesday’s meeting of President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar demonstrates their commitment, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Speaking to ...

The European Commission on Wednesday disbursed €76.9 million to Cyprus as its third tranche under its Recovery and Resilience facility. The disbursement of the funds comes after the commission had last ...

MPs on Wednesday called for the police to halt plans to serve people with notification of previously incurred traffic fines at ports of entry and exit to the Republic of ...