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Two businesses and 21 individuals were booked in the past 24 hours following 1,718 checks for violations of the decrees against the spread of Covid-19, police said on Friday. A police spokesperson told ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced one more death attributed to Covid-19, while testing detected 3, 951 new positives. The latest fatality was a man aged 84. That brings the death toll since ...

The testing sites for Saturday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (15 units) Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 96625766 Agios Dometios Municipality (event hall) 9 am – 6 pm 70000166 Agios ...

In its first year of operation, Paphos police’s domestic violence unit investigated 271 cases that led to 126 arrests, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday. Paphos deputy police chief Michalis ...

Larnaca criminal court on Thursday sentenced a 42-year-old woman to 11 years in prison and a 59-year-old man to 10 after finding them guilty in a drug related case, police said. The ...

In today’s episode, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides has expressed caution over prospects for reviving EastMed pipeline as she said that, even if the pipeline project kicked off immediately, it ...

The Cyprus journalists’ union said on Thursday it is €1000 to a special relief fund for Ukrainian journalists. It described it as a “a meagre but essential sum in regard to ...

Twelve people were fined for failing to follow Covid-19 restriction measures in 1,609 police checks over the 24 hours until Thursday morning, police said. Three premises in Nicosia with six people were ...

Procedures have been set in motion to help some 8,000 Ukrainians who have come to Cyprus as refugees or are stranded here because of Russia’s invasion of their country, Interior ...

Two people have been arrested in Larnaca after police found 3kg of cannabis. After investigations in March at the post office, members of the police drug unit YKAN and the ...

The health ministry announced on Wednesday that its dental services will offer free dental checkups across the republic to mark World Oral Health Day 2022. Four mobile dental units will be ...

A total of 37 free rapid test mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Thursday for eligible groups, the health ministry announced. In addition to any medical certificates exempting them ...

Ahead of the student parades held to mark Greek Independence Day on March 25, the government yesterday issued the protocols for how they can take place to meet covid-19 restrictions. Wearing ...

The University of Cyprus (UCy) has decided to grant ten full scholarships to refugee students from Ukraine, it said on Wednesday. The scholarships concern five undergraduate and five post graduate ...

A marina for yachts and related facilities will be set up in the area of the fenced-off town of Varosha in the Famgusta area in the north, Turkish Cypriot press ...

One hundred and fifty unaccompanied minors currently at Pournara are to be transferred to other accommodation units in Famagusta, while the interior ministry said that 317 irregular migrants had arrived in ...

Two new grant schemes were on Wednesday announced by the energy ministry totalling € 49 million, for the energy upgrade of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), non-profit organisations (NGOs), local government authorities ...

The Cyprus Union of journalists said on Wednesday they had held a meeting with government spokesman Marios Pelekanos seeking more access to the palace and called for an end to ...

By Andreas Pavlou Leoni Bella Vassiliou, a student at Aradippou High School, recently came first in the world in a poster competition for International World Food Day. In a written ...

Russian ambassador to Nicosia, Stanislav Osadchiy has warned that Moscow is keeping score and will take everything that Nicosia does as regards the war in Ukraine into account when it ...

In today’s episode, the finance ministry has revised its forecast for inflation this year from an initial 1.5 per cent to 4 per cent, as petrol prices surge in the wake ...

Police on Wednesday said they fined one Paphos business and 14 people in Famagusta for failing to abide by coronavirus restrictions, after 1,739 checks in the government-controlled areas. The business concerned a ...

International magazine Global Banking & Finance Review on Tuesday named the Bank of Cyprus’ asset management division (BOCAM) as the best asset management company in Cyprus. The award was given ...

Chinese Ambassador Liu Yantao has visited Cypriot referee Kyriacos Kyriacou who had to undergo emergency surgery while he was in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Kyriacou was hospitalised on ...