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Private pharmacies on Monday said they will hire additional staff as people formed queues outside pharmacies and labs to get tested for the coronavirus after the health ministry scrapped its ...

By Constantinos Psillides Caution: Spoilers for the Masters of the Universe: Revelations series The backlash to Masters of the Universe: Revelations was anticipated. In fact, Netflix’s PR team was ...

Unilateral actions that violate UN Security Council Resolutions on Varosha are unacceptable, Russian President Vladimir Putin has told President Nicos Anastasiades, the Cyprus presidency said on Monday. It said that ...

The Labour ministry on Monday criticised an impromptu work stoppage by employees at the DP World Limassol, which manages the general cargo and cruise terminals at Limassol port, saying workers ...

Pinguicula crystallina, the only carnivorous plant endemic to Cyprus, is the agriculture ministry’s plant of the month for August. Each month, the ministry highlights an endemic plant as part ...

Police in the Famagusta district are investigating a case of assault after a complaint was filed by two men aged 28 and 25 in the early hours of Sunday. The 28-year-old told ...

By Stavros Nikolaou Occupancy rates are expected to remain low at around 50 per cent of capacity in August, the president of the Paphos Hotels Association Thanos Michaelides told the Cyprus ...

By Stavros Nikolaou Famagusta general hospital, which operates as a Reference Hospital for patients with coronavirus, is 100 per cent full, with all 75 beds taken, the Cyprus News Agency reported on ...

A woman who left her dog on the balcony without food or water during the heatwave was charged in writing and has temporarily lost custody of her pet, police said ...

As the vaccination portal opened for children aged 12 to 15 on Monday with 830 slots booked by noon, the Cyprus Paediatric Society has filed a complaint with police after members of the ...

With the heat wave continuing to grip Cyprus, the labour ministry on Monday called on employers and the self-employed to suspend all work under direct sunlight exposure. An extreme high ...

Hellenic Bank, RCB Bank and the Bank of Cyprus emerged with good performance on the European Central Bank’s 2021 stress tests, according to the statistics released by the central bank ...

Police on Monday said they are investigating the circumstances under which a 20-year-old woman was seriously injured in a traffic accident in the Larnaca district over the weekend. The accident ...

Paphos police are investigating on Monday after a 25-year-old man was brought to the hospital with serious head injuries. Police received information from the district’s general hospital around 9pm ...

By Antoniou Markos, economist Acquiring real estate has always been one of the most stable investments the average person could make in their life. This is confirmed by George S. ...

Although it just got even harder, a determined but vocal minority are refusing to frequent businesses that require a SafePass Since the introduction of the SafePass and the decree bringing ...

One person died from coronavirus on Sunday while 277 new cases were recorded, the first day that free rapid tests were no longer available to the general public. The total number ...

A newly created Facebook page aiming to provide scientifically substantiated information to the public’s questions regarding the coronavirus pandemic seeks to help diminish people’s concerns over the coronavirus ...

It’s amazing how plants reproduce themselves By Patricia Jordan Some plants throw out underground rhizomes, which pop up away from the mother plant. Plumbago is a good example of ...

The Met Office on Sunday afternoon issued an orange weather warning in force from 1am on Monday to 5 in the afternoon. The temperature inland is set to hit 42C, while ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos on Sunday berated people who say having a coronavirus vaccine is like putting the devil in us. “How can the devil go inside us when we have Christ, ...

The report found that “offering voters money or a special favour during elections was very common” Corruption is widespread and a serious problem in the north, according to a new ...

A 43-year-old has been arrested after reportedly entering the house of a 26-year-old neighbour with an axe to tell him to turn the music down. Police are investigating a case ...

Testing sites will continue to operate around the island on Monday offering free rapid tests to groups of the population. Rules in place until the end of August mean only ...