Cyprus

Cabinet on Wednesday approved €1 million for hotel staff ineligible for unemployment benefits as well as €1.6m for three professional groups – taxi drivers, photographers, and street vendors – whose business has been ...

Taxi drivers on Wednesday suspended a scheduled six-hour work stoppage for next week to demand state financial support after the finance ministry agreed to include them in its one-off grant. ...

A total of 37 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Thursday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

Municipalities may soon deploy traffic cameras of their own following the green light from the transport ministry, but offences such as speeding won’t be recorded. The reopening of Nicosia’...

To mark World Wetland Day on February 2, Akrotiri Environmental & Education Centre is inviting people to visit to find out what they do. Thomas Hadjikyriakou, manager of the centre, stressed ...

The interval period for the coronavirus vaccine booster dose will be reduced to five months cabinet decided on Wednesday, as it also adjusted the health protocols for minors and nursing ...

Road safety lessons at school could become a prerequisite for young drivers to secure their learner’s licence as government ministries discuss measures to improve driving standards. Meetings have been ...

Kyriacos Koushos on Wednesday officially assumed his duties as undersecretary to the president, filling the post left vacant following the resignation of Vasilis Palmas last week. Having most recently served ...

Limassol police on Wednesday said they were investigating after a safe with €15,000 in cash was stolen from a nightclub. The theft was reported by the 60-year-old owner of the nightclub, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar confirmed on Wednesday that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and is in good health. “I am well and I wish to convey to my ...

A designer who won international acclaim for the renovation of a bookshop in north Nicosia now works all round the world. AGNIESZKA RAKOCZY meets him ”I never leave my clients ...

Firefighters responded to a blaze in a liquor store near Paralimni late on Tuesday, that destroyed alcoholic drinks and damaged the building. No injuries were reported, as the fire service ...

In an encouraging development for the island’s water reserves, the island’s seventh largest dam at Lefkara has overflowed for the third time since it was constructed in 1973. Department ...

In today’s episode, the expected loosening of some Covid-19 restrictions appear to have been shelved, amid reports that the BA.2 Omicron subvariant has been detected in Cyprus. Meanwhile, an ...

Paphos police are investigating the owner of an apartment complex in Chlorakas on suspicion of violating an interior ministry decree prohibiting the settlement of additional migrants in the village, the ...

Three people, aged 23, 30 and 32, were fined €15,500 late on Tuesday in Nicosia after officers found 43 kilos of duty-free tobacco products in their possession. According to police, officers stopped the car of ...

Nine businesses and 14 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus protocols after 1,820 checks in the last 24 hours, police said early on Wednesday. Most fines came after 385 checks in Nicosia, where seven ...

The establishment of a new hospitality school in Platres is aiming to tackle both labour shortages in the hospitality industry, as well as the issue of rural flight, people flocking ...

Limassol port management company DP World Limassol welcomed the world’s biggest cruise ship on Monday, Royal Caribbean International’s Wonder of the Seas. “It is with great pleasure that ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) will further bolster its supervisory framework in a bid to go along with technological developments in the market, CySEC chairman George Theocharides said ...

The code for the management and protection of wetlands in the island will be ready before the end of 2022, providing for the restoration of degraded areas and promoting research, Agriculture ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday met Akel leader Stephanos Stephanou to discuss a series of proposals the main opposition party believes will help tackle rising electricity costs. The meeting was ...

Bilateral ties between Cyprus and the US are stronger than ever before, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Washington DC on Tuesday evening as he met Foreign Minister ...

The Cyprus Sports Organisation (KOA) sought to correct the record on the new Limassol football stadium on Tuesday following a report that “miscalculations” could reduce its capacity by thousands of ...