Cyprus

By Marios Papageorgiou A recent incident with a Bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus), that was incidentally caught on a tourist fishing vessel in Larnaca, received lots of attention from the ...

Progress towards gender equality is not even and more needs to be done, the Council of Europe’s deputy Secretary General Bjorn Berge told a conference in Nicosia on Tuesday. ...

New Wave – The Other Cyprus together with Volt Europa on Tuesday called on President Nicos Anastasiades to resign and for an in-depth investigation into any wrongdoing he may be involved ...

The European Commission has received a response from Cypriot authorities regarding the island’s now- defunct ‘golden passports’ scheme, and will continue dialoguing with Nicosia, a Commission spokesman said on ...

Measures have been taken to decongest the Makarios children’s hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit that has seen many hospitalisations since the beginning of the month, the state health ...

Minister of Labour Zeta Emilianidou has issued a decree simplifying the paperwork and procedures required for employers to hire asylum seekers on a temporary basis. The decree in question appeared ...

No deaths and 162 new Covid-19 cases were recorded on Tuesday by the health ministry. The 162 cases were detected among 51,892 PCR and rapid tests, with positivity rate of 0.31 per cent. There ...

Pope Francis will visit Cyprus and Greece, including the Greek island of Lesbos to meet migrants, from December 2 to 6, a Vatican source said on Tuesday. Francis will stay in Cyprus ...

One of the candidates for the presidency of the north’s ruling party, Faiz Sucuoglu was implicated in the release of a compromising video last week of ‘prime minister’ Ersan ...

Growing demand as the world economy recovers after the pandemic, combined with pressure on energy resources ahead of a heavy winter after a very hot summer, are creating a ‘perfect ...

The Nicosia to Limassol motorway closed to traffic near Moutayiaka for more than three hours on Tuesday afternoon, due to a 10-car pileup but has now reopened. The accident occurred ...

The government plans to extend by a further four months a scheme allowing people the opportunity to pay their arrears in social insurance contributions in instalments. Speaking in parliament on ...

A total of 24 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Wednesday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis and Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Tuesday met the community leaders of mountainous areas in Limassol and Larnaca that were devastated by fires in July. The ...

Cabinet will decide on Wednesday on the naturalisation of the two children of a bicommunal couple who have so far been refused Cypriot citizenship even after their Turkish Cypriot father ...

Saying that the use of ethylene oxide in coronavirus rapid tests was monitored by “strict checks”, the health ministry on Tuesday said it was ready to investigate whether any laws ...

Saying she had received a number of queries on the issue, personal data commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou on Tuesday issued clarifications about the use of CCTV in private properties and ...

Two men, 61 and 62, were remanded for eight days on Tuesday in connection with the discovery of a cannabis production site in Limassol. A 60-year-old woman, who was also arrested related ...

The promotion of cycling aims to improve the traffic problem, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Tuesday as he announced that applications for the government’s bicycle purchase subsidy scheme ...

A 32-year-old motorcyclist has been hospitalised in critical condition after the motorbike he was riding was involved in a collision with a car driven by a teenage driver in Limassol. ...

The forestry department led an expedition last week to study Roudias river in the southern part of the Paphos forest, with Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis among the 22 participants. In a ...

Police arrested a 17-year-old youth driving under the influence of drugs late on Monday in Paphos. The boy was riding an electric scooter on Thalassinon Spilion avenue in Peyia around 8...

The Cyprus radio television authority (CRTA) said on Tuesday said that it has issued fines of €91,000 in fines to various local media for 30 cases of violations of regulations governing the ...

A 30-year-old man was remanded for eight days on suspicion of people smuggling. The man was arrested after a boat with irregular migrants that he was in, arrived in Paralimni ...