Cyprus

Paphos criminal court on Tuesday ruled a 25-year-old man guilty on 18 counts of sexual abuse of a minor on different charges, and set July 7 as the date for sentencing. The ...

Gesy beneficiaries will receive emails containing the indicative cost of health services received after each doctor’s appointment, the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) said on Tuesday. Up to now, Gesy ...

The chair of the European Parliament’s committee on culture and education Sabine Verheyen has expressed concern over the education ministry’s decision to launch a disciplinary investigation against art ...

Hope for Children issued a missing child alert on Tuesday for 15-year-old Denisa Belova Kasapoglou. from Limassol. She has been missing since June 18. Denisa is 1.65 metres tall, with blonde shoulder-length ...

The health ministry announced a total of 68 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Wednesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

A report into the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programme, released on Tuesday, conveys a picture of an almost total system failure – authorities and actors across the board not doing proper background ...

The House selection committee on Tuesday agreed on presidents for the 16 parliamentary committees and scheduled a new meeting for Wednesday to decide on the deputy chairs and members. The committee ...

Some 2,500 drivers were booked for traffic offences over the long weekend, the majority of them for speeding, police said on Tuesday announcing the results of a campaign to avert road ...

President Nicos Anastasiades replaced the ministers of health and justice on Tuesday and appointed a junior minister for welfare at the newly created department. Anastasiades also appointed a new government ...

Some 2500 drivers were booked for traffic offences over the long weekend, the majority of them for speeding, police said on Tuesday announcing the results of a campaign to avert road ...

Turkish Cypriot authorities say they expect 3,000 Greek Cypriots to file applications with the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) in the north over their properties in the fenced area of Varosha. There ...

Saying that we must learn to live with the novel coronavirus, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Tuesday voiced concern over an increase in positivity rates of rapid tests and the ...

Paphos Hotels saw occupancy rates of close to 60 per cent over the long weekend, a significant jump from the 15 per cent averaged over the month of June, Thanos Michaelides, president ...

Cyprus is set to take part in the EU’s Green Pass from July 1, a coronavirus certificate aimed at facilitating international travel. Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC on Tuesday morning, ...

The weather service issued a thunderstorm warning on Tuesday valid from 12pm unti 7pm. According to the service, isolated thunderstorms were expected mainly in mountainous and inland areas, which may ...

The two sides on Tuesday reiterated to UN special envoy Jane Holl Lute their opposing positions on the way forward for the Cyprus problem as the UN official visited the ...

Famagusta, Paphos and the mountain villages were the big winners from the busy three-day weekend as Cypriots went on local holidays. In some areas capacity reached or even surpassed one ...

A 48-year-old electricity company (EAC) employee critically injured in an explosion in May has died, the EAC said on Tuesday. Kyriacos Argyrou and a colleague, 40, were injured in an explosion ...

Police said on Tuesday that have nabbed three men trying to steal catalytic converters from a Nicosia warehouse. Acting on information, police on Monday evening went to the warehouse where ...

A woman trapped in her car after a collision in Protaras on Monday evening was freed by the fire service and taken to Famagusta Hospital, the fire service said on ...

The Council of Europe (CoE) on Tuesday lauded the announcement last week by the Cyprus Supreme Court on the adoption of new rules of civil procedure. The rules were finalised ...

A 25-year-old man will appear in Larnaca district court on Tuesday after he was caught doing 180 km per hour on the Larnaca-Kophinou motorway. The speed limit on the motorway is 100 ...

In a development that is likely to disappoint the Cyprus government, the EU’s top foreign policy chief said on Monday the bloc would not be getting deep into EU-Turkey ...

The health ministry said on Monday there had been no new Covid deaths as it announced 67 new positives from 21,250 PCR and rapid tests, yielding a positivity rate of 0.32 per cent. ...