Cyprus

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, ...

Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides on Sunday suggested that Nicosia was keen on joining Nato in light of the current status quo on the island, if it wasn’t for Turkey. ...

As presidential elections got underway in France on Sunday, the French Embassy in Nicosia was operating a polling station for individuals who are registered to vote. A French Embassy spokesperson ...

Cyprus’s defence minister, Charalambos Petridis said that the island’s defence expenditure in 2021 was at its highest level since 2004. Speaking at the Pancyprian Artillery Reserve Association’s annual gala, ...

American University of Beirut campus a massive boost Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos is bursting with pride that a campus of the prestigious American University of Beirut is coming to the ...

A four-year-old girl was attacked by a dog late on Saturday at a park in Xylotymbou, in the Famagusta district. According to the police, the child’s father reported to ...

Cyprus’s Energy Minister, Natasa Pilidou, said that drilling of the first well in the Eni-Total consortium will get underway in the coming weeks. Pilides, in an interview to Greek-language ...

US pressure on Cyprus to offer the biggest confidence building measure of them all – energy cooperation with Turkey A settlement of the Cyprus issue might no longer be a prerequisite ...

Police in Limassol arrested two 15-year-olds last night in connection with the violent mugging of a 78-year-old man. According to a report made to police by the 78-year-old, on the ...

Police arrested a 42-year-old man for the illegal possession and use of drugs with the intent to supply, as well as traffic offences. Traffic police noticed that the car’s ...

Famagusta Traffic Police arrested an 18-year-old learner driver on Saturday night (2230), found to be under the influence of drugs. During the routine patrol, police discovered that the motorist was only ...

As electricity prices rise 200 per cent in the north some people quip they are almost grateful for the constant power cuts By Esra Aygin Turkish Cypriots from all walks of ...

One Covid death was announced on Saturday as the ministry of health recorded 1,764 new cases. The death referred to an 84-year-old man who died on Saturday, bringing to 975 the total ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris visited a Ukrainian refugee reception centre in Slovenia on Saturday during an official visit in the country at the invitation of his Slovenian counterpart Ales Hojs. ...

Polis Chrysochous and Peyia municipalities have jointly welcomed the rejection of the president’s challenge to local government reform, which would have seen Akamas communities under a single municipality. In ...