Cyprus

The audit office on Sunday hit back at reports that it was somehow culpable in the growing concern over delays to the construction of the LNG terminal in Vasiliko. The ...

Police fined 13 individuals and 22 businesses were fined for violating Covid measures over the past 24 hours. They carried out a total of 2,484 checks islandwide. In Nicosia, there were 611 checks, booking 10 people ...

Three police officers in Paphos have been suspended pending an investigation into how two suspects escaped detention cells at the city’s police HQ on Saturday. According to the latest ...

An 18 year-old man has been arrested in Nicosia after losing control of his car and smashing into four teenage girls standing in front of a supermarket wall in Lakatamia. The ...

A 32-year-old man was killed in a road accident on Saturday night on the Limassol-Platres tree after he lost control of his car and crashed into a tree. In statements ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and that 2,568 had tested positive from 87,025 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.9 per cent. The death concerned ...

An independent body should be brought in to evaluate the health system, the patients’ association said on Saturday, a day after an audit-office report alleged illegalities and tax evasion within ...

As we come up to two years of Covid, we asked a selection of people on the streets of Nicosia about their experience, how much it’s changed them, and ...

The health ministry on Saturday said it hopes to vaccinate 75 per cent of the overall population against Covid-19, while calling on people to keep abiding by the personal protection measures. ...

A fire that broke out from a lit candle in a Yeri apartment resulted to the hospitalisation of a woman before it was extinguished by a neighbour, the fire service ...

Where do you live? I live in Boston, Massachusetts with my mom, dad, and twin brother Mikhail What did you have for breakfast? This morning I had an English muffin ...

Paphos police on Saturday were investigating after two detainees escaped from the district’s central police station. The escapees are Alexandros Sarkisides, aged 28, and Ernai Kozmiov, aged 34, both of Russian ...

With long winter nights upon us, indoor hobbies come to the fore. Combined with the recent pandemic lockdowns, jigsaws are having a moment. Alix Norman speaks to those who are ...

Sigma TV on Saturday said they had suspended a male journalist after a formal police complaint was filed against him last week by a female journalist who had worked with ...

Tourist guides on Saturday said its members were being unfairly treated after the sector was not included in the new state support plans for businesses impacted by the pandemic. In ...

Nicosia police on Saturday said they had arrested two men, aged 33 and 34, in connection with the discovery of three kilos of cannabis. According to the police announcement, the drugs were ...

A supermarket in Nicosia was fined €8,000 for allowing its staff to work without a SafePass. The fine came after 490 checks in the district, during which five individuals were also booked. ...

A total of 63 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Sunday, the health ministry announced. Eligible for a free rapid testing are people fully ...

American painter James Whistler believed that artists aren’t paid for their labour, but rather for their vision. When creative possibilities are endless, a creator’s perspective, sense of aesthetics ...

According to the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat), inflation in Cyprus reached 5.4 per cent in January, while the Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell by 0.53 units to reach 104.57 units. The CPI stood ...

Representatives of embattled agricultural producers are lobbying for state aid to help mitigate the cost of damage to their crops from the frost and extreme weather of recent weeks. Tassos ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday he was having intensive consultations with all stakeholders to agree on changes to be forwarded to the European Commission regarding halloumi, which was ...

The health ministry announced 2,907 new cases of Covid-19 and two deaths on Friday. The deaths were a man aged 85 and a woman aged 80, who died at Larnaca and Nicosia hospitals ...

A 21-year-old man is in critical condition in Nicosia General Hospital with multiple head injuries after falling some eight metres to the ground as he was installing air condition units ...