Cyprus

The Game and Fauna service on Tuesday warned that poaching was a serious crime as they announced the regulations for turtle dove hunting this year that limits killing to 12 birds ...

Larnaca district court on Tuesday handed down 10-month prison sentences to 12 people in relation to impersonation and carrying forged documents, police said. Police had previously expressed concern over a surge ...

Turkish Cypriots who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 and want to travel abroad will be able to obtain an EU Digital Covid Certificate from noon on Wednesday, the government said ...

Three deaths and 412 new positive cases of Covid-19 were announced on Tuesday. Three women aged 81, 71 and 92 passed away since Monday, bringing total deaths to 464. There are 232 coronavirus patients in hospitals, 92 ...

After 15 years of technical and legal setbacks, Cyprus is set to reintroduce traffic cameras in a test capacity in October, even though legislation for their operation has not yet been ...

A total of 37 free rapid test sites mobile units for coronavirus will operate nationwide on Wednesday, the health ministry announced, for eligible groups. Since Sunday, free rapid testing for the ...

A fire that broke out earlier on Tuesday between the communities of Moni and Monagrouli in the Limassol district has been brought under control, authorities said. The fire broke out ...

Free walk-in vaccination centres might operate at schools over the next academic year to promote children’s vaccination against coronavirus while all students will be required to present a SafePass, ...

Larnaca municipality is aiming to redevelop the area of the old oil refineries into a people-friendly, urban space, Mayor Andreas Vyras said on Tuesday. “The oil refineries area plan is ...

A 48-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of participating in clashes between AEL and Apollon football fans that saw eight vehicles damaged and one destroyed by fire. The ...

The three small children with coronavirus including week-old newborn remain in good health, the assistant director of paediatrics at the Makarios Children’s Hospital Marianna Kousparou said on Tuesday. Answering ...

The economy is expected to grow by more than 5.5 per cent in 2021, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Tuesday, as preliminary estimates showed a 12.9 per cent year-on-year growth in the ...

The arrivals of tourists reached 297,308 in July 2021, recording an increase of 358 per cent compared with July 2020, during which 64,914 arrivals were recorded. However, this July marked a decrease of 46 per cent ...

The chairman of the Cyprus Respiratory Society expressed concern Tuesday over the high number of Covid patients in intensive care (ICU) and the possibility of the situation worsening with the ...

The European Commission has approved a €1billion Cypriot scheme to support enterprises and self-employed individuals in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. The scheme was approved under the State aid ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced that a brand of organic food spread was being withdrawn from the market as it contains a preservative that was not listed as it ...

The production of recycled water in 2020 at the wastewater treatment plant in Larnaca, exceeded 3.5 million cubic metres, it was announced on Tuesday. Larnaca Sewerage Board said in a statement that ...

Five business owners and 46 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus protocols in the last 24 hours, police said early on Tuesday. The fines resulted from 3,740 checks nationwide between 6am on Monday ...

A Congolese woman was arrested after she tried to depart the island using documents that did not belong to her, police said on Tuesday. The woman arrived at the Paphos ...

One man was remanded on Tuesday, while a woman was arrested in connection with an arson attack on a room of the Limassol district court where evidence was being kept. ...

The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Friday informed the public that, at its meeting held on the 5th April 2021, CySEC decided to impose an administrative ...

Not all residents following municipality’s pioneering pay-as-you throw scheme Thousands of residents in Aglandjia are not following the municipality’s pay-as-you-throw system, resulting in dozens of trash bags piling ...

Justice Minister, Stevi Drakou, acted as mediator between the police chief and the director of the Central Prisons on Monday after a dispute over a police search of a wing ...

A seven-day old baby is among three children hospitalised with coronavirus in Makario hospital, it emerged late on Monday. Doctors described the baby’s condition as good despite some fever. ...