Cyprus

Campaigning for the parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday draws to a close on Friday night as government officials hand over the ballot boxes and 600,000 ballots to officers in ...

Police arrested a 20-year-old early on Friday for speeding on the Limassol-Nicosia motorway. The man was caught driving at 200km per hour, in an area where 100km per hour is ...

Police fined 20 people after 4,234 checks for the implementation of coronavirus measures in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Friday. Between 6am on Thursday and 6am on Friday, police fined ...

Cyprus Small- to Medium-sized businesses must undergo a transformation in order to survive – they need to jettison past ways of doing business and adopt those that are right for today. ...

Turkish Cypriot Ersin Tatar has sent a letter to the UN Secretary General laying out his side’s approach to the Cyprus issue and how he sees the process going ...

Sparks continued flying on Thursday over the resignation of Volunteerism Commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki, the affair bleeding into the last stretch of the election campaign showmanship, as more details came to ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced 75 new positives for coronavirus, for a positivity rate of 0.17 per cent, while the number of the hospitalised continue to drop. No new deaths occurred, ...

Paphos municipality has awarded a grant of €8,000 to a doctoral student of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus, it announced on Thursday. Maria Ktoris received ...

The vaccination portal will reopen on Friday for 36–39-year-olds, the health ministry said on Thursday, announcing that almost 51 per cent of the population has received a jab. Members of the ...

The health ministry announced a total of 71 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Friday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The ministry of health issued some clarifications on the upcoming measure relaxations that were announced earlier on Thursday. The new measures will see the curfew moved from midnight to 1am ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday morning announced that €23.5 million from the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan would be given to boost the Makarios hospital to cater for everything needed ...

The state health services (Okypy) on Thursday said that hospital wards previously used for Covid-19 patients were slowly emptying, allowing them to return to their original use. Despite this, Famagusta ...

Brits living overseas might get ‘votes for life’ as the British parliament is set to discuss a bill scrapping the 15-year limit on voting rights in the coming days, an ...

Voters living in the north wishing to cross to the government-controlled areas on Sunday to vote will have to present a negative PCR test not older than 72 hours on their ...

Police are investigating an online investment scam after a 43-year-old woman reported she lost more than €10,000 by investing in a fake international company. The woman, who lives in Paphos, told ...

Police said on Thursday they had arrested a 63-year-old third-country national in Kato Paphos on suspicion of forging a European passport. According to the police, a foreign woman visited a ...

Too many measures have only a short-term effect and major goals are neglected. By Dr. Charles Ellinas Cyprus’ government has put forward an ambitious ‘Recovery and Resilience Plan’ (RRP), with ...

A 44-year-old man was found with 22 cannabis plants and more than 12 kilos of cannabis in his Limassol home after he was stopped for a traffic check, police said on Thursday. ...

Two forklift operators in Paphos were injured when their vehicle fell into a four-metre ravine, police said on Thursday. According to police, the accident took place on Wednesday in the ...

Political stalwart, former foreign and commerce minister Nicos Rolandis has died at age 86, it was announced on Thursday. His long political career helped shape the politics of Cyprus domestically and ...

The night-time curfew will be pushed to 1am from Saturday and will be scrapped completely from June 10, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting. Expressing the ...

Cryptocurrencies slipped on Thursday, though without falling through recent lows, as traders clung to hopes that a nascent recovery from last week’s plunge can regain its momentum. Bitcoin has ...

Police fined nine people and one business owner for failing to abide by coronavirus protocols after 4,396 checks nationwide. Between 6am on Wednesday and 6am on Thursday, officers carried out 549 checks ...