Cyprus

Nursing staff at Athalassa psychiatric hospital staged a two-hour work stoppage on Friday to protest overcrowding and understaffing at the facility. According to the nurses’ branch of the civil servants’ ...

Personnel from the agriculture ministry’s environment department, members of the civil servants’ union Pasydy, staged a protest on Friday morning outside the House of Representatives where the environment committee ...

Paphos police have issued an arrest warrant for a 49-year-old man as they investigate a complaint that he had been paid €46,500 to import two cars but failed to deliver the ...

The health ministry announced on Friday that 7,263 Covid infections were detected during the past week, while another two deaths have been attributed to the disease. The two deaths attributed to ...

The oral anti-viral drug Paxlovid is available on prescription for Covid-19 patients who do not require hospitalisation, the health ministry said on Friday. It said the drug can be prescribed ...

The cashback programme appears to be gaining ground in Cyprus with about 15,000 such transactions having taken place in the first five months of the year, at a total value of €900,000. ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

Police have made two arrests for illegal employment and residence, while labour inspectors issued six fines for undeclared work after checks in Paralimni and Derynia on Thursday evening. In an ...

A mainly fine weekend lies ahead, though Friday will see some cloud and the possibility of afternoon showers, the met office said in its early morning weather forecast. There may ...

Police in Paralimni have charged a man with drunk driving after he was caught behind the steering wheel nearly five times over the legal limit, the Cyprus News Agency reported ...

In today’s episode, flare-ups in at least two locations late on Thursday night dashed hopes that a massive fire raging since Tuesday in the north’s Kantaras area was ...

The Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Selk) on Thursday submitted a six-part plan to further develop the Cypriot economy and businesses. “Maintaining the strength of our economy does not depend ...

Residents of Pissouri on Thursday pleaded with MPs to help with mounting problems as a result of continuing landslides in the area, including the banks coming after them. They sought ...

By Yiannis Seitanidis EU sanctions against Russia are having a negative impact on businesses in Cyprus, with closures and redundancies as a consequence, according to the European Sanctions Affecting People ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides told attendees at a SEK trade union conference that Cyprus is entering a new era “where the only certainty is uncertainty”. During his speech, the Finance ...

Illicit drug sales are increasingly being conducted online, in part because of the pandemic, a senior police officer said on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference ahead of International Day ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that allows the police force to hire 300 special constables who will be deployed to help stem migrant flows. The special constables, to ...

Firefighting operations resumed early on Friday morning in the north’s Kantara area as flare-ups during the previous night reignited on two fronts. Helicopters were the first to the scene ...

The lax financial management of public health bodies came under scrutiny on Thursday, as highlighted in a report by the auditor-general on the administrative and financial autonomy of the state ...

By Elias Hazou and Christodoulos Mavroudis The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Thursday called the armaments activities on the Greek-Cypriot side a provocation and a threat to stability on the ...

A law proposal regulating the use of an app is to be prepared by October for patients to communicate directly with their doctors and have immediate access to medical help ...

Weekend clinics across the island should start operating on July 9, once any outstanding issues raised during recent meetings are resolved, the health ministry said on Thursday. The announcement came after ...

Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay was in the north on Thursday to bolster Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar whose election “had shown the desire of Turkish Cypriots for a ...

Child protection commissioner Despo Michaelidou on Thursday berated authorities for failing to implement an institutional framework governing the operation of children’s summer camps as a failure to safeguard children’...