Cyprus

The community council of Kissonerga has urged the department of public works to speed up the construction of a breakwater in Potima Bay to protect it from erosion. Speaking on ...

Bars, cafés and restaurants that cater primarily to tourists are running at about 50 per cent capacity, and despite a decrease there are calls for them to remain open, they ...

The coming decades will see a greater impact from climate change in Cyprus, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday, stressing the need for changes to the way water is ...

A fire near Lofou in Limassol, was brought under control after burning three hectares of wild vegetation and and trees, the fire service said Monday. The blaze broke out at ...

Radiographers operating CT scanners in state hospitals will stop working overtime hours and responding to calls for scans outside normal working hours, they said on Monday. The newly adopted system ...

A company has been fined €1,500 for marketing children’s toys containing toxic substances, the labour ministry announced Monday. Yacumo Enterprises was taken to court for selling toys containing particular phthalates ...

Limassol police said on Monday they were investigating a case in which a Cypriot had transferred over €55,000 to a woman abroad who had promised to come to the island if ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides travelled to Brussels on Sunday to take part in the Eurogroup meeting which will convene on Monday, November 8. Finance Ministers will discuss the macroeconomic outlook in ...

The CovScan application trial period began on Monday as businesses have been mandated that by November 22 they must scan each patron’s SafePass using it. The move, announced earlier this ...

Authorities will install signs warning motorists of the presence of traffic cameras and speed limits, according to an announcement issued on Monday. This was decided during a meeting between the ...

In today’s episode, we hear how the island’s reservoirs are only at just over 50 per cent capacity due to the dearth of rainfall for this time of the ...

British Bases personnel, units from the UK and Cyprus recently undertook a three-day joint bomb disposal training in Akrotiri to “share best practices and foster working relationships for future collaboration”, ...

A 34-year-old man has been arrested after police discovered 190g of cannabis. Following a court warrant, officers searched his home at around 7pm on Sunday. During the search four plastic ...

A supermarket was fined €4,000 because customers were not being kept further enough apart and a restaurant was fined €650 as for the second time it was found not checking that customers ...

A 32-year-old has been arrested following a knife attack and causing bodily harm in Paphos. According to the police a member of the community board of a village in Paphos ...

Around 65 per cent of Cypriots believe their lives will return to normal after the pandemic, according to a poll published on Sunday but the majority of those think it will ...

But it all comes down to air connectivity and airlines keeping winter flights in place October was this year’s best month by far for tourism as hotels experienced their ...

The health ministry announced on Sunday there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 while 133 positives were recorded from 39,447 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.34 per cent. There ...

Nicosia’s former main shopping street to be finished in time for Christmas The long-long-awaited revamp of Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue is set to be completed on December 7, but a ...

The following are the free testing sites for Monday. District Sampling points Hours Limassol (5 points) University Square (behind TEPAK Rector’s Office) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cultural Events Hall, ...

Opposition Akel on Sunday called for a meeting of the National Council to discuss a six-page document for a decentralised federation that was drawn up by the Greek Cypriot side ...

The island’s reservoirs are only at just over 50 per cent capacity due to the dearth of rainfall for this time of the year, it was reported on Sunday. The ...

The government hopes the fast-track mechanism it has introduced to simplify processes for foreign businesses wanting to set up operations in Cyprus will finally end the long bureaucratic delays that ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Sunday launched a scathing attack on public service union Pasydy general-secretary Stratis Mattheou who blamed the government for a delay to the ongoing reforms process. ...