Human rights: always open to interpretation

Anyone living among Greek Cypriots is accustomed to viewing human rights as a Platonic idea: unchangeable, eternal and perfect. However, it is clear from the experience of those who spend their lives

Circus forced to withdraw cub

A circus that is visiting the island has been forced to stop using a tiger cub for CYP 8 per shot photos with children, following complaints from members of Animal Responsibility Cyprus

Cyprus welcomes Commonwealth communique

In the final communique adopted by the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which wrapped up in Malta on Sunday, included four paragraphs on Cyprus as follows. “Reaffirming their previous communiques on Cyprus,

Cyprus government suspicious of new crossing

The (Greek Cypriot) Republic of Cyprus government may not open its side of the new checkpoint being dismantled by the Turkish Cypriot side, following a row about whether the plans constitutes unacceptable

AKEL has a difficult congress

Demetris Christofias was re-elected General Secretary of the the Cyprus communist party and main coalition partner AKEL, ending a diffcult 20th party congress that began on Thursday. Christofias, who had no rival,