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Reforming the civil service is an effort on many fronts that will go on continuously, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday, expressing hope that three relevant government bills will ...

A 50-year-old man has been remanded in custody pending his extradition hearing on November 29 in connection with the abduction of a six-year-old boy in Italy. The suspect was arrested on ...

The graffiti on the vandalised Big Potato in Xylophagou will be removed by the end of the week so that it can be illuminated and decorated for Christmas, community leader ...

A total of 50 free rapid test sites will operate nationwide for eligible groups on Saturday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been scrapped, while ...

Works worth over €108 million including the Polis Chrysochous-Paphos road are currently underway in Paphos, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Friday. The minister visited Paphos to discuss with local authorities ...

The health ministry issued further clarifications on Friday for the new Covid measures introduced this week. Perhaps the most notable change from the initial announcement is that on the policy ...

Human resources are the National Guard’s most crucial asset, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Friday, speaking as he awarded green berets to this year’s recruits who have ...

Small shopkeepers’ union Povek said that discounts on offer for Black Friday in Cyprus are much lower than other countries, as reduced traffic was recorded at shops in the morning ...

Achieving the objective of keeping schools open and safe requires appropriate measures, Child Commissioner Despo Michalidou said on Friday, highlighting the negative effects of closed schools and urging parents to ...

Pope Francis has arranged to have 50 migrants from Cyprus be relocated to Italy to mark his trip to the island next week, a Vatican source told Reuters on Friday. The 50 ...

A burst pipe was behind a massive leak of water from the ceiling of the Larnaca general hospital’s ICU the previous day, the state health services organisation (Okypy) said ...

In today’s episode, Covid-19 once again dominates the news cycle as it was announced that children from the age of five will be eligible for the vaccine. There’s ...

A 21-year-old woman has been hospitalised in Paphos following a car accident with a drunk driver, police said early on Friday. According to police spokesman Michalis Ioannou, the accident occurred ...

The 14-day cumulative diagnosis rate climbed to 473.4 per 100,000 residents, a 66 per cent increase compared with the previous two weeks, the health ministry’s epidemiological report showed on Friday. As 4,204 coronavirus ...

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 ...

A 60-year-old man is wanted on suspicion of stealing one thousand iron rings from a construction site in Paphos, police said on Friday. The theft was reported on Thursday by ...

Three businesses and 19 individuals were booked after 2,543 checks for the implementation of coronavirus measures in the last 24 hours. Most checks, 1,107, were carried out in Nicosia where three people were fined ...

A well-planned internal audit is a crucial tool in the fight against corruption and fraud, two things that often appear in tandem and must, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on ...

Deputy Managing Director of China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Duan Bingquan pledged his determination to bring natural gas to Cyprus which is scheduled to be delivered at the end of June 2023. ...

Only 44 per cent of the average rainfall for November has fallen so far this month, preliminary data published by the met office showed on Thursday. Between November 1 and 25, rain reached 23.2 ...

The granting of civil servant status to four personal assistants of President Nicos Anastasiades was unlawful, the auditor-general said on Thursday as opposition MPs called it a ‘scandal’ and the ...

The House on Thursday passed a law changing the way in which political parties receive state aid. The legislative proposal – sponsored by Disy, Akel, Diko and the Greens – amends the ...

By unanimous vote, parliament on Thursday passed a law extending to the end of 2022 the protection afforded to ‘trapped’ property buyers. It means the protection now applies to buyers who ...

Both the government and political parties on Thursday sounded an upbeat note that the key hurdles in the way of local government reform have been overcome, with the relevant legislation ...