Jean Christou

Restrictive measures in the north have been extended with a traffic ban in all districts until February 10, it was announced on Wednesday. The decision was to have immediate effect due ...

The cabinet on Wednesday decreed that all passengers from category A and B countries arriving in Cyprus must self-isolate for 72 hours and take a PCR test within 72 hours after that. ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci in two separate social media post hours apart on Sunday warned against the Turkish side attempting to pursue a two-state solution at the upcoming 5+1 ...

The pace of diplomatic activity is picking up ahead of the 5+1 informal conference on Cyprus slated for the beginning of March with the arrival this coming week of British Foreign ...

Seven out of ten Cypriots believe the country is heading in the wrong direction and are divided over the government’s handling of the pandemic, according to a poll published ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Wednesday hit back at the newly established European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) which said that 10 per cent of the 3,000 fraud investigations it estimates it will ...

If MPs decide at Thursday’s plenum that the list of politically exposed persons (PEP) with bad loans should be made public, it will be published on parliament’s website, ...

The cabinet has declared May 12 to be the Day of the Farmer after suggestions by agricultural organisations who wanted to honour a historical uprising by Cypriot serfs between 1426 and 1427. “With ...

Dherynia municipality on Wednesday said it was looking at ways to keep the people who live in Strovilia in place and also increase the population of the area. Mayor Andros ...

A section of the newly revamped Piale Pasha Avenue has been eroded by the sea and maintenance work is expected to begin as soon as weather conditions allow, Larnaca Mayor ...

Political parties are discussing a bill that would allow for the issue of death certificates for missing persons who have been identified through DNA testing as a result of the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by teleconference late Monday, telling him it was a reality that there were two equal and separate sides on ...

With the consent of the legal service, the Limassol court on Tuesday issued a ruling that some of the bones of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou could be sent to Athens ...

Cyprus was hit by an earthquake of a magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale Thursday afternoon, according to the geological surveys department. The tremor hit at 4.27pm local time. The epicentre ...

The protracted saga of whether or not to publish the so-called Giorghadji list of non-performing loans of politically exposed persons (PEP) could come to an end during the House plenum ...

The EU’s General Court on Wednesday ruled that there was no likelihood of confusion between the collective mark ‘halloumi’ reserved for the members of a Cypriot association, and ‘BBQloumi’ ...

An updated epidemiological risk assessment of countries for Covid was issued on Saturday by the health ministry that leaves only four countries in Category A – those considered safest for travel, ...

Another 3,960 Covid vaccination appointments will be available through the government portal to people over 80 from Monday, the health ministry has announced. People who qualify will be able to arrange their ...

Akel, through it’s Nicosia-Kyrenia Secretary Christos Christofides, on Sunday slammed President Nicos Anastasiades for saying in a Politis interview that the government had successfully managed the second wave of ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday he had put out feelers to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu about the possibility of procuring vaccines from Tel Aviv. In an interview with ...

Business organisations on Sunday issued a “desperate plea” in a letter to the president to increase the number of people allowed to have a physical presence at work to 25 per ...

President Nicos Anastasiades in an interview published on Sunday rejected opposition allegations of an explosion of corruption during his terms in office but did concede there had been some irregularities ...

The health ministry on Wednesday announced four deaths from Covid-19 and another 573 cases through a total of 10, 201 PCR and rapid tests. The deaths concerned four men, two aged 76, one aged 79, ...

In a letter to UN chief Antonio Guterres, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said he supports an informal five-party meeting to determine whether or not there is common ground between ...