#Cyprus

Oelmek president Demetris Taliadoros upset the House education committee on Wednesday, claiming MPs were “on the take” from private schools and was why they refused to make any changes to ...

The director of the state health services organisation (Okypy) is to visit the Limassol hospital in a bid to resolve problems caused to outpatient services by upgrade works at the ...

The three-member committee appointed to investigate the supply of vehicles from the EU, the import of vehicles from third countries and the recall of those cars was sworn in on ...

Cabinet has on Wednesday approved a special urban planning scheme aimed at supporting developments in primary and secondary education. The initiative is designed to enhance the educational sector, recognising its ...

Old smartphones can now be donated to domestic violence victims as NGO Spavo on Tuesday encouraged people to take part in a campaign to help the women. The Association for ...

The House labour and human rights committees on Tuesday held a joint session to discuss apparent age-based discrimination leading to elderly people being overcharged for car insurance, among other problems. ...

The 45-year-old alleged ringleader of a bizarre criminal group which made headlines in recent weeks after using forged state seals and impersonating officials, Costas Patsalides was on Tuesday evening arrested ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday welcomed Greece’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tasos Chatzivasileiou to Nicosia, with the pair engaging in a discussion on “the latest developments in political issues”. Chatzivasileiou ...

The Saint George church in the Kyrenia district village of Vouno collapsed on Saturday night, prompting the village’s Turkish Cypriot mukhtar Durmus Asandir on Tuesday to take aim at ...

Attorney-General George Savvides on Tuesday called for the law on harming animals to be amended. In an open letter to the government, he expressed concern at an “increasing rate of ...

The Cyprus Post aims for a full switch to electric vehicles by 2034, and on Tuesday said five e-vehicles had already been acquired. These e-vehicles were “ideal for their needs”, it ...

A three-member committee to investigate the supply of vehicles from the EU, the import of vehicles from third countries and the recall of those cars was appointed on Tuesday by ...

Public approval for President Nikos Christodoulides has fallen, an opinion poll released on Tuesday showed. Fifty-five per cent of respondents expressed a negative view of his leadership, according to a ...

At best, Cypriot men are 30 per cent of Greek descent, a study constructing the DNA reference of Cypriots has so far shown. This indicates the island’s population has more ...

BirdLife Cyprus on Tuesday morning said another vulture was found dead under a voltage power line of the electricity authority (EAC) in the Korfi area of Limassol. According to BirdLife, ...

Parents teamed up on Tuesday following a complaint by a 16-year-old teenage girl who said she was sexually harassed by her school bus driver in Larnaca. Speaking to CyBC radio, ...

A news article referring to the strategic value of the proposed corridor linking India, the Middle East and Europe (Imec), as discussed between senior officials of Cyprus and Greece caught ...

Only 14.3 per cent of MPs in the Cypriot government are women, ranking Cyprus the lowest among all EU countries according to a recent Eurostat study. At 14.6 per cent, Hungary ranked ...

A nursery teacher in Nicosia has been suspended after a video surfaced in local media, allegedly showing her threatening to throw a child out of a window. The disturbing footage ...

Panayiota Costi from Larnaca marked her 102nd birthday on Monday and the occasion was celebrated over the weekend with her six children, 12 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. Her granddaughter Anna says ...

Greece reaffirmed on Monday its commitment to building a subsea electric cable planned to link continental Europe to the East Mediterranean, following reports that the project was halted over financial ...

Cyprus is to push for “no different treatment of invaders” with regard to the European Union’s plans to boost its military defences, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Monday, ...

The number of animal abuse cases has increased notably within recent years, police spokesperson Nicoleta Tyrimou has announced on behalf of the animal police department. In 2024, 150 incidents of animal abuse ...

According to the climate watch advisory group of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), rainfall in March is expected to be particularly low compared to normal levels for the season. The ...