#Cyprus

Two defendants charged for the double murder in Arakapas earlier this year pleaded not guilty on Friday to premeditated murder. Appearing at Limassol criminal court, the two defendants, aged 19 and 23, ...

Cyprus, EIB sign agreement to fund island roadworks By Rebekah Gregoriades The vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Kyriacos Kakouris, on Friday signed the first €100 million tranche of ...

Pentakomo harbour threatens seals, say environmentalists Environmental organisations have called for the immediate termination of works on the Pentakomo harbour, which are threatening the Mediterranean monk seal and the surrounding ...

A French company has agreed to buy a significant stake in the Great Sea Interconnector project, media reports said on Thursday. Bloomberg broke the story, naming the company as Meridiam ...

Accusations of corruption erupted in Paphos on Thursday between local authorities regarding the decision to grant a permit to a hotel in Latsi. Polis Chrysochous Mayor Yiotis Papachristofi accused Paphos ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday sent back to parliament a law passed two weeks ago that makes illegal transactions in liquid assets of over €10,000. The president refused to sign off ...

Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou on Thursday called on the public to be patient as waiting times at state hospital A&E departments began to skyrocket. This is due to ...

The Turkish Cypriot police began investigating Ali Kismir before a complaint was filed against him, according to police inspector Durmus Aydin. Aydin was called as the third and final witness ...

An investigation will be launched over the fuel industry after suspicions of market distortion, the commission for the protection of competition announced on Wednesday. The investigation will cover the time ...

The Cypriot government is “ready” to begin consultations with both Greece’s independent transmission system operator Admie and the country’s energy ministry to find an agreement on “all matters” ...

Cyprus will respond in the coming days as to whether it will accept Chevron’s development and production plan for the Block 12 Aphrodite gas field, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said ...

The government announced on Wednesday its commitment to supporting refugees by improving their access to housing, as it unveiled revised conditions for housing plans. According to the Interior Minister Constantinos ...

The prison employee branch of the public servants’ union (Pasydy) on Wednesday lauded changes to the prisons system, which it said would also lead to better working conditions and an ...

The Nicosia court on Wednesday postponed until March next year, the case brought against a German real estate agent charged on 44 counts related to the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property ...

Thousands of people will benefit from the expected reductions in some banks charges and preferential interest rates for vulnerable groups that banks are set to announce by the end of ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal lodged by state pathologist Panicos Stavrianos against a Limassol district court ruling that conscript Thanasis Nicolaou had been strangled to death in 2005. ...

After more than 130 years of research, the hypothesis that placed the sanctuary of the great goddess of Idalion, sung in Hellenistic and Roman poetry, on the top of the hill ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and his Egyptian counterpart have agreed that their countries should “coordinate” on the potential fallout from recent events in Syria, the government said on Tuesday. Christodoulides and ...

The labour market in 2024 is “the best” of the last 15 years in terms of new job creation, the employment rate and salaries, the government claimed on Tuesday. Labour Minister Yiannis ...

Efforts to tackle prison overpopulation are ongoing, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday at the opening of a new high-security wing at the Central Prisons. The project transformed an existing ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that talks to resolve the Cyprus problem “must continue within the United Nations’ framework”. Speaking ...

Singer Peter Andre “may” retire in Cyprus, he revealed on Tuesday. In British gossip magazine OK, he pointed out that the United Kingdom’s Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday told United Nations special representative Colin Stewart he is “ready” to discuss the opening of new crossing points with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. Government ...

Former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki on Tuesday asked judge Nicole Gregoriou to recuse herself from his forgery case, claiming she is biased. During the hearing at Nicosia District Court, Yiannaki ...