Gina Agapiou

Animal right’s organisation Peta on Thursday urged Cyprus to include organic vegan agriculture as part of reforms under the EU common agriculture policy, arguing it would reduce greenhouse gas ...

The installation of photovoltaic panels in 450 state schools will be completed next year with a total budget of €10m, Environment Commissioner Kleila Vasiliou said on Thursday. “The project not only ...

The health ministry announced the operation of 57 rapid testing sites nationwide on Friday, as part of the mandatory weekly coronavirus testing of employees including self-employed people. The test sites provide ...

Electricity was restored nationwide early on Thursday, less than an hour after an unknown fault at the Vasilikos power station caused power cuts in various regions. The fault was recorded ...

Local activist has called on people to walk in migrants’ shoes this Saturday in a 20km hike from Kokkinotrimithia to Nicosia’s old city centre. Starting from the metal gate ...

Taylor Swift has beef with this show featuring Georgia, a young mother moving with her teenage daughter and nine-year-old son to a New England town for a new beginning after ...

The Nicosia district court remanded a man for four days on Wednesday on suspicion of grooming a child for sexual exploitation using social media, police said. The suspect was arrested ...

Driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs increases the risk of causing an accident, police said on Wednesday after they caught 15 people driving while on drugs in the last ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris visited a migrant and refugee camp Samos on Tuesday, during his two-day visit in Greece. The minister was accompanied by Asylum Seekers Reception General Secretary Manos ...

A group of Nicosia residents spend last Sunday morning cleaning up Pedieos riverbed, following reports of large amounts of rubbish dumped in the area. Large pieces of wood, plastic and ...

The Animal Party is calling on people to stop abandoning their pets in fields after a dog disrupted traffic in Limassol-Nicosia motorway early on Tuesday. Following a police announcement about ...

Cyprus is not planning any actions as regards the AstraZeneca vaccine and will wait for official results of an investigation into a batch that Austria stopped using following a death ...

Nicosia water board announced that there would be water cuts in Tseri municipality on Wednesday due to repair works of a pipe at the Mazera pumping station. The board apologised ...

Cyprus Post has announced extended opening hours for its Nicosia district office on Prodromou Street due to the accumulation of large volume of parcels. The office will open normally at 8...

No violations were recorded during checks on 3,406 employees in the last week to ensure they undertake mandatory weekly rapid tests, the health ministry said on Monday. Between March 1 and 5, the ...

The majority of health workers in Europe during the pandemic were women, Eurostat said on Monday. Women accounted for 66 per cent of health professionals during the third trimester last year ...

A legal framework to tackle gender violence in compliance with the Istanbul Convention is expected to be put in place soon, Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis said on Monday, International Women’...

Cyprus has seen a significant drop in Covid-19 deaths despite an increased positivity rate, the health ministry announced on Friday. Between February 19 and February 26, the number of Covid-related deaths on ...

The House legal affairs committee is expected expedite approval of a bill for court hearings relating to foreclosure cases by the end of March, its chairman Giorgos Georgiou said on ...

Cyprus will face a third wave of coronavirus if people do not abide by health protocols after the relaxation of measures, a member of the ministry’s epidemiological team warned ...

Police fined more than 450 people for various traffic offences in the last 24 hours, as part of efforts to prevent serious and fatal road accidents. The announcement came as a 25-year-old ...

The reopening of restaurants and cafés is still set to take place as scheduled on March 16, it emerged on Friday, despite an increase in daily Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations ...

Nurses at Athalassa mental hospital were due to start an impromptu two-hour work stoppage on Friday demanding quality health care for patients and better staff protection. Pasydy mental health professionals ...

Limassol has turned into a ‘dark red’ zone according to the categorisation of the European centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC), as it accounted for 68 per cent of recent ...