Cyprus

Some 500 civil weddings will have been carried out in Peyia Municipality by the end of the year, while some bookings have been moved to a later date because of uncertainty ...

A Nicosia café was fined €4000 because the employee responsible for checking whether customers had a SafePass was not wearing a mask, the Cyprus News Agency said on Thursday. In another ...

The Department of Meteorology has issued an extreme high temperature warning, valid from 11.30 until 17.00 on Thursday. In issuing the yellow alert, it said that the maximum temperature inland is expected ...

The general manager of the Cyprus Employers and Industrialists Federation (ΟΕΒ) Michalis Antoniou, speaking to StockWatch, said that there is a grave shortage of manpower that threatens the growth of the ...

The House education committee on Wednesday called for a show of “political will” and the president’s intervention in resolving recurring issues surrounding the appointments of assistants for special needs ...

No new deaths from Covid-19 were recorded over the past 24 hours, as 257 new infections were detected after 39,578 tests, a positivity rate of 0.65 per cent. According to the health ministry, 181 people ...

Twelve per cent of the Covid-19 vaccines received by the Republic went to Turkish Cypriots through the bicommunal committee on health, it was reported on Wednesday. According to the Cyprus ...

A 47-year-old man from Paphos was fined €1,000 for drunk driving, police said on Wednesday. According to police, the man was stopped by Paphos traffic police around 2.35am on Wednesday. He ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday the Greek Cypriot community was ready to return to the 1960 regime with Turkish Cypriots taking the positions granted to them by the constitution, suggesting ...

A 43-year-old man was remanded by Nicosia district court for six days after being arrested for the possession and distribution of child pornography, police said on Wednesday. The man was ...

Attorney general George Savvides on Wednesday gave the green light for the prosecution of three of the four people involved in the case of a fake post on social media ...

A total of 48 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Thursday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Free rapid testing for the general population ...

By Stefanos Messios Nicosia municipality on Wednesday announced that due to the continued works on the commercial triangle linking Makarios Avenue, Stasikratos and Evagoras Phase B, the section of Annis ...

Booster shots of the anti-Covid vaccine for the elderly and vulnerable groups are a one-way street, member of the advisory team on coronavirus Dr Petros Karayiannis said on Wednesday, suggesting ...

In one of the most complex cases to date, according to the antiquities department, the royal iconostasis doors of the church of Ayios Anastasios from Peristeronopigi village in the north ...

The health minister said on Wednesday that he cannot interfere in the University of Technology’s (Tepak) decision to only allow vaccinated and recovered students on campus for the new ...

A search was continuing on Wednesday to locate a migrant who jumped from a boat on Sunday off Paralimni after marine police intercepted a vessel with 18 people on board that ...

THEO PANAYIDES meets TV, West End and Hollywood actor Kevork Malikyan, a ‘little Armenian boy’ from Turkey Steven Spielberg once described Kevork Malikyan’s face as a combination of Al ...

Police on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for a 31-year-old man who is wanted on suspicion of trafficking migrants from Lebanon. According to police, the suspect is being investigated for ...

Two Paphos special constables have been released from custody after being charged with various offences on social media that involved threats against the city’s police chief. The pair, both ...

Covid -19 vaccine booster shots will be made widely available to Americans in September, while several other countries including Israel, Germany and France have decided to offer boosters to older ...

Another person, a man of African origin aged 23 has been arrested at Paphos airport with what police believe is a stolen passport. He was aiming to fly to Berlin in ...

In the last 24 hours, police fine 38 people and three businesses for violating the state’s rules on Covid-19. Police carried out a total of 2,949 checks islandwide. In Nicosia, 618 inspections were ...

A yellow warning for extremely high temperature will be in effect from 1pm, to 5pm on Wednesday, the met office said. Temperatures inland will reach 40C and hit 32C in ...