Cyprus

After extreme lows and highs in temperature, this week will see more usual conditions, weather reports said on Monday. Summer conditions seen at the weekend – with a maximum of 28C ...

Modernisation, efficiency, and meritocracy were identified by the president as the key successes in the civil service in an address on Monday to the general meeting of Pasydy, their main ...

Apatow films to stream instead of The Bubble My late father used to say that if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all. It’s a lovely ...

Hellenic Bank on Monday announced that it has entered into an agreement for both the sale of a non-performing exposures portfolio, as well as the bank’s servicing platform APS ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday said he would not hear suggestions from those who want to create difficulties within the national health scheme Gesy. “There will not be any changes ...

The ministry of health will operate 31 free rapid testing sites for eligible groups on Tuesday, it said on Monday. Those who are eligible include minors, the fully vaccinated and those ...

The new-born baby boy found at Solomou Square in Nicosia on Sunday was not born alive state pathologists have confirmed. The two officials who carried out the autopsy on Monday ...

Among the 160,746 pensioners in Cyprus as of 2020, there are wide variations in the amount people receive, some getting up to €2,487 while others were granted €710. With a total cost to the ...

A concert to mark the Queen’s jubilee and the friendship between Britain and Cyprus will be organised by the British bases at Curium on June 2, it was announced on ...

The health ministry announced that it will increase efforts to provide Turkish Cypriots with EUDCC Covid-19 certificates, but reiterated that they must first fill out an application. It said that ...

Werner Hoyer, the President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), will meet with members of the Cypriot Government on Monday in Nicosia. According to a statement issued by the EIB, ...

Jordan has been upgraded from the red to green Covid-19 travel category, while the overall country categorisation programme will be scrapped on April 18. An announcement last week detailed stated that ...

Police arrested a 46-year-old man in Paphos on Sunday for illegal possession of drugs and property after he was seen throwing something suspicious out of his car. Members of the ...

In today’s episode, as of Monday a raft of relaxations from Covid-19 restrictions come into force following a Cabinet decision last Thursday. Elsewhere, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Sunday ...

In the 24 hours leading to 6am on Monday, police fined 12 individuals for Covid decree violations, after 2,165 inspections. In Nicosia, no fines were issued after 518 checks. In Limassol two fines were ...

Police arrested three men in Paphos on Sunday after court warrants were issued, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a crime, theft and illegal entry. According to the police, the ...

Easing of coronavirus restrictions takes effect on Monday morning, including abolition of the mandatory requirement for outdoor face mask use, while SafePasses are no longer needed for the workplace, with ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos estimates that Cyprus will see 50 per cent more passenger traffic this year compared with 2021. “I want to send the message that although we expect to lose ...

Authorities were alerted after a dead baby was found in the capital Nicosia’s old town on Sunday evening. According to CyBC, the baby was discovered inside a bag in ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos turned 81 on Sunday saying that his health was stable “with the help of God, and his doctors”. During the day the archbishop, who has been diagnosed with cancer ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 1,459 had tested positive from 57,728 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.53 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

April is one of the best times to escape and go hiking and nowhere more so than the Akamas Some of us travel to explore the sites, while others do ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will attend an event on Wednesday the Ledra Palace, which will also be attended by Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar under the aegis of Colin Stewart, Special ...

Just in time for the start of the summer season, Cyprus is getting a new flying ambassador, a plane that was christened ‘Larnaca’ at a special ceremony on Sunday. Larnaca, ...