Cyprus

Cyprus on Monday upgraded six countries in its categorisation for arrivals based on the epidemiological data, effective from June 3. Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy and Poland have been upgraded ...

The day after the elections must be characterised by a sense of increased responsibility towards our country, President Nicos Anastasiades said after the parliamentary elections during which Disy held its ...

In addition to the 56 new MPs, representatives for two religious groups were also elected on Sunday. Yiannakis Mousas is the representative of the Maronites and Antonella Mantovani for the Latins ...

Police booked ten people after 2,186 checks for breaches of the coronavirus measures nationwide in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Monday. Nicosia officers carried out 179 checks and booked two ...

Disy retained is position as the largest party in the House after Sunday’s elections for new MPs although it saw its number of seats reduced, as did the other ...

And the necessary reforms to tap funds could prove tricky By Kyriacos Iacovides The government’s multi-billion euro recovery and resilience plan, ‘Cyprus Tomorrow’ is not quite the done deal ...

Seven parties were set to enter parliament following Sunday’s parliamentary elections but the three biggest each lost in or around 3% over the previous legislative elections in 2016 in what is ...

Katarina Lazic and Sophia Papastavrou are international nomads and like all ‘third culture kids’ have found their native lands tough places to be The British-Turkish novelist and academic Elif Shafak ...

Although ruling Disy emerged as winners on Sunday, many voters turned to smaller parties, including Elam, a right-wing party with links to Greece’s now outlawed Golden Dawn. Elam, an ...

The health ministry on Sunday announced 44 new coronavirus cases and said no deaths have been reported from the virus. The total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic ...

Kelly Christodoulou, a resident of Larnaca, is Senior ESG and Stewardship Consultant, Investments at AustralianSuper, one of that country’s largest pension funds with $200 billion (EUR 125 billion) in assets under ...

Early exit polls indicate seven parties in the new House of Representatives emerging from Sunday’s polls, with the embattled ruling party Disy managing to hang on to first place, ...

Polling stations closed at 6pm on Sunday as Cypriots went out to vote in a new House of Representatives, in a process that was marked by abstention of many voters ...

The Turkish Cypriot side is ready to reopen the crossing points on Monday under specific conditions, ‘prime minister Ersan Saner was quoted as saying on Sunday. “From May 31, 2021, we will ...

Cybersecurity is a major global challenge, so how prepared are we? Two major cyberattacks and another two attempted ones – all on government systems – have hit Cyprus in the last three ...

A candidate for the hunters’ party is to be charged with assaulting a police officer at a polling station in Limassol, with police saying he had pushed and swore at ...

Nicosia Municipality on Sunday castigated vandalism at Eleftheria Square which it blamed on fans of Omonia29M on Saturday evening and said will cost several thousands of euros to repair. ...

Fifty-one testing locations for Monday as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol ( 17 points) “Grigori Afxentiou” Square, Limassol 7.30 am-7.30 pm TEPAK Building “Andreas Themistokleous”, Agia Zoni (Old Land Registry of Limassol, ...

Police have arrested a 27-year-old man who injured a policeman when fleeing a police check, having first thrown out eight pouches containing five grams of cannabis out of the window ...

Branded as a wonder drug by some and a danger to health by others, the drug has been used to fight coronavirus. In a world where the man on the ...

Businesses expect an extension to EU’s July 3 deadline to ban single-use plastics Business leaders have warned green-minded members of the public not to expect Cyprus to become a single-use ...

The testing sites for Sunday are as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (20 points) Church of Agios Ioannis Eleimonos, Limassol 9 a.m.-7 p.m. TEPAK Building “Andreas Themistokleous”, Agia ...

The health ministry on Saturday announced there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 while 56 people tested positive from 56,456 PCR and rapid tests. a positivity rate of 0.1 per cent. There ...

As employees are expected to return to their workplaces early next month, a number of companies are struggling to accommodate all of their office staff and comply with coronavirus measures ...