The Nicosia District Local Government Organisation (EOA) has begun replacing 72,000 conventional water meters with smart meters, starting in Engomi, as part of efforts to modernise its water services, it said on Friday. Work began on Monday, in Area 9 of Engomi and installations will gradually…
Outpatient services of the Cardiology Department at Nicosia General Hospital will be reorganised into specialised clinics as of January 1, state health services organisation Okypy announced on Monday. The move aims to improve the management of complex and challenging cardiac cases by teams of…
A different kind of book fest arrives in the capital this month – one that brings together independent publishers, bookshops and collectives for two days of books, zines, discussions and presentations. The Nicosia Alternative Book Festival returns on November 14 and 15 for the second edition at…
An 11-year-old girl has been admitted to the hospital after allegedly being beaten up by five of her classmates at a Nicosia elementary school. According to local media reports, the girl’s father said that she had been attacked by her foreign classmates on two separate occasions, with the first…
This November, the Pharos Arts Foundation presents mezzo-soprano Anousha Nazari and guitarist Antoine Morinière in an unusually intimate Nicosia recital in which European early music meets the Persian musical tradition. Mark your calendars for November 19, for a musical evening at The Shoe Factory.…
Nicosia Mayor Charalambos Prountzos and his Turkish Cypriot counterpart Mehmet Harmanci on Tuesday said they have drawn up joint proposals to protect dilapidated historic buildings in the buffer zone, which Prountzos will raise with UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin on November 9. Speaking on Politis…
Police arrested three drivers on suspicion of drink-driving after three separate collisions in Nicosia and Limassol overnight. The first crash occurred shortly after 7pm on Saturday in the Idali industrial area, when a 48-year-old man ran into a car waiting at a red light, which was then pushed…
Speaking from his home in Limassol, Captain Adamos Marneros recalls a life shaped by determination, chance encounters and a flight that still haunts him: his return to Nicosia in the early hours of July 20, 1974. His account brings together the fulfillment of a boyhood dream and the painful…
