Cyprus

Humanitarian organisation Hope For Children has opened a 24-hour free helpline on 1466, affording psychological, social, and legal support and guidance on issues related to the well-being and protection of children. ...

Police on Tuesday issued a missing child bulletin for 15-year-old Maria-Chrysi Kassianidi who was last seen the previous day. According to police, the teenager has been missing from her place ...

Paphos police detained a 22-year-old on Monday evening in connection with driving under the influence of drugs and other offences. Police said the man was arrested after he failed to ...

Police in the Famagusta district detained a 52-year-old man on Monday in connection with a Christmas Eve bomb explosion at a residence. It followed the arrest of another male suspect, 35, ...

Limassol police on Monday arrested a 40-year-old resident of Paphos wanted for setting fire to a house and stealing €180,000 in December last year. The alleged offences were committed in Limassol ...

For the second day in a row police carried out more than 10,000 checks to detect violations of coronavirus measures. As a result of 10,374 inspections, conducted between 6am on Monday and 6...

The mayor of Paphos is continuing his quest to change the ‘face’ of Paphos, with all sorts of upgrading works taking place across the town. Posting on social media, Phedonas ...

A Limassol butcher shop has come up with an ingenious idea to help those in need, by offering them meat paid for with money donated by customers. Though Klappis Meat ...

The House human rights committee said on Monday that recent programmes and measures will help ensure that women who face domestic violence will receive support from the state. President of ...

Five deaths from coronavirus and 288 new cases of the virus were announced on Monday. The health ministry said the five deaths were four men aged 70, 77 and two aged 89, along with ...

More than 450,000 text messages were sent for permission for movement on Sunday, the first day of the lockdown. According to Deputy Minister for Innovation and Digital Policy, Kyriacos Kokkinos, no ...

The health ministry announced the rapid test locations for Tuesday, as detailed below: Province Sampling points Hours Limassol Lidl parking lot (Franklin Roosevelt Street 45) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ‘Sigma’ ...

A two-state solution could never be Disy’s choice, the ruling party’s leader Averof Neophytou said on Monday in an apparent criticism of his deputy leader’s comments that ...

The first doses of the Moderna vaccine are expected to arrive in Cyprus this week, by Wednesday at the latest, the health ministry said on Monday afternoon. It was not ...

A court in Cyprus has ruled that a private agreement between MEP Demetris Papadakis and his former party Edek was null and void, as it contravened European Parliament regulations. In ...

More than 80 per cent of public schools now have access to speedier internet and the project is expected to be concluded by the end of January, the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority ...

A minimum pension, subsidies to working mothers and photovoltaics in mountain areas were among Edek’s proposals incorporated in the revised budget, its chairman Marinos Sizopoulos said on Monday. Edek ...

Leaders of both communities met with UN secretary-general’s special envoy, Jane Holl Lute, on Monday, laying the groundwork for a possible informal five-party meeting. President Nicos Anastasiades conveyed to ...

Cyta, the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, is projecting after-tax profits of €39.3 million in 2021, some €3m more than the previous year, its chairwoman told the House finance committee on Monday. Presenting the ...

Relations between the government and auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides are deteriorating, President Nicos Anastasiades has said, accusing the official of allowing himself to be ‘weaponised’ by the opposition. In the second ...

The health ministry is ditching the practice of opening its vaccination portal for appointments at the stroke of midnight after a flood of protests by people squeezed out by those ...

Half the people in a Bank of Cyprus poll said they had suffered a loss of income to some degree in the past five months, as Cyprus feels the full ...

Aphrodite Hills Holiday Residences properties are now listed on Homes & Villas by Marriott International, a global collection of premium and luxury private home rentals. The property management company was ...

Tensions rose in the northern part of Nicosia on Monday during a protest by Turkish Cypriots working in the south against the measures that prevent them from getting to their ...