Gina Agapiou

An online petition has been launched calling for the immediate resignation of Archbishop Chrysostomos after he placed a dozen priests on mandatory three-month leave because they are unvaccinated. The petition ...

Nine communities around Vasiliko area on Tuesday warned they would take dynamic measures, including protests and road closures, if a cabinet decision to relocate the two Dali asphalt plants to ...

Taxi drivers on Tuesday said they would go ahead with a six-hour work stoppage next week to demand state financial support. Their statement came after the urban taxi sector was ...

The operation on a three-year-old boy who was transferred to Athens with serious heart disease was postponed because he was diagnosed with viral pneumonia, the health ministry has told the ...

Limassol district court on Monday rejected a court case claiming the measures taken in March 2013 were unconstitutional and illegal. The president of the Limassol district court dismissed a lawsuit against ...

Former chairman of the board of directors of the Cyprus broadcasting corporation (Cybc) Thanasis Tsokos, on Monday has been appointed as director general of the state broadcasting authority. Reports said ...

Two deaths from the coronavirus and 3, 396 new cases were announced on Monday out of 137,680 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.47 per cent. The deaths were of a man ...

Fully vaccinated children and those who recovered from the virus will now be excluded from the test to stay policy, said the health ministry on Monday as it announced that ...

Half of carbon emissions in Cyprus comes from transport, whereas the same industry represents a quarter of emissions in the EU, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Monday. He added ...

By Nick Theodoulou and Gina Agapiou The three-year-old boy who requires heart treatment but was denied entry to Germany because his parents were unvaccinated is to instead be flown to ...

Works for the construction of the road around the new football stadium in Kolossi will start in February with a total budget of €9.1m, transport ministry announced on Friday. The ...

A 33-year-old woman was arrested at Paphos airport for assaulting officers who approached her after she refused to wear a face mask and undergo a PCR test. According to Paphos ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday appointed former government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos as his undersecretary, following the resignation of Vasilis Palmas the previous day. In a written statement announcing the decision ...

Dali residents held a protest outside the presidential palace on Friday as the president chaired a meeting regarding the relocation of the asphalt plants in the area that is expected ...

Two businesses, one in Nicosia and the other in Limassol, were fined €8,000 each for SafePass violations after 1,778 checks in the government-controlled areas, police said on Friday. In total 12 businesses and 16 ...

A 4.5 magnitude quake jolted Cyprus early on Friday, the third to be felt on the island this month, with the department of geological survey urging the public to remain calm. ...

Police on Thursday said a special investigation team will assess ‘seriously and responsibly’ a 47-page file sent by Greek activist Ilias Gkionis which includes information about the alleged Cyprus link ...

The health ministry announced that 28 students tested positive on Thursday after more than 2,000 close contacts got tested as part of the ‘test to stay’ policy in schools. According to the ...

A three-year-old boy, who is hospitalised with serious heart disease in Makarios hospital in Nicosia, was denied treatment abroad because his parents are unvaccinated, it was reported on Thursday. Following ...

Health officials on Thursday expressed concern over the large number of serious Covid hospitalisations and deaths, as a record number of 70 patients were treated in the ICU in Nicosia, most ...

A 49-year-old man was arrested in Paphos for allegedly preventing officers from carrying out a Covid measures check at his son’s business, police said on Thursday. According to police ...

The special €1.5 million plan approved for the creation of facilities for the temporary care of stray dogs “is likely to be insufficient”, the Animal Party has said. In an announcement ...

New court cases will be filed electronically instead of in physical form as of February 1, the supreme court announced on Thursday. The notice applies to all courts, except the International ...

Roads leading to the highest peaks of the mountains remained closed on Thursday, police said after some drivers attempted to take routes closed to traffic. According to police, “a particular ...