Cyprus

The ministry of agriculture chose the humble Cypriot donkey thistle (Onopordum cyprium), to mark world environment day on Saturday, saying it highlights the intrinsic role all plants play in maintaining ...

A 35-year-old man suffered serious injuries on Friday after a gas explosion in his flat in Paphos. The Palestinian man was rushed to Paphos hospital with extensive burns to his ...

Children over six-years-old must have negative coronavirus tests to be allowed to visit the north, a Turkish Cypriot official said Saturday. Cenk Soydan, the co-chair of the bicommunal technical committee ...

Police have arrested a foreign national in connection with the arrival of 15 irregular migrants in Kato Pyrgos in the early hours of Saturday. Authorities said it appeared the 12 men and ...

Police handed out fines to just four individuals for not abiding with the measures in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the last 24 hours. Police carried ...

Three masked men robbed an elderly couple at knifepoint in their Limassol home in the early morning hours of Saturday, police said. The incident took place at around 2.20am in ...

Close to 7,500 people used the seven crossings controlled by the Republic after they reopened on Friday, most going to the north, police said. According to a police spokesperson, 7,455 people used ...

The Covid-19 vaccination portal will remain open until 17.30 on Saturday for those aged 28-32 to make an appointment, the health ministry said on Saturday. According to the ministry’s schedule, ...

With the summer on its way, our thoughts inevitably turn to holidays. But with Covid still holding sway, dare we leave Cyprus? Alix Norman asks whether its vacation or staycation ...

Flights to Cyprus from the UK over the next weeks will not increase progressively as expected, the main reason being the decision by the British government not to include the ...

The health ministry announced one death and 83 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday. A 92-year-old man passed away at Limassol hospital, bringing the total death toll to 363, of whom 241 were ...

The ministry of health announced some changes would be made to Monday’s vaccination schedule due to state nurses’ union’s 12-hour work stoppage. The affected vaccination centres are Port ...

The health ministry announced a total of 82 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The new mental health centre planned for Athalassa psychiatric hospital will be a “historic moment of progress” for mental health services, state health services (Okypy) said on Friday. Tenders for ...

The UN Secretary-General’s special envoy Jane Holl Lute is expected to arrive on the island within June for consultations ahead of another five-party summit on the Cyprus problem, Foreign ...

A court challenge into the legality of an arrest warrant issued against a British mother for calling a local community leader ‘useless’ in the comments section of a Facebook post ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Friday issued a response to threats of strike action from the state nurses’ union (Pasyno) to protest the disciplinary investigation of a number of mental ...

Twenty outgoing MPs will share an approximate €3m one-off tax-free payment, it emerged on Friday. Former MPs who served one term will receive a one-off payment of €75,728 and are entitled ...

Greek Cypriot Kyriacos Tziambazis and Turkish Cypriot Untac Duzgun had not seen each other for over 460 days and wasted no time in meeting up once the crossings reopened on Friday. “...

Ruling Disy on Friday announced MP Annita Demetriou as candidate for the House presidency, the second highest role in the Republic, which has never been held by a woman since ...

Salamis has postponed the cruise programme of its liner Salamis Filoxenia for this year because it was not possible to have all the staff vaccinated in time, it announced on ...

It is everyone’s responsibility to preserve and restore natural ecosystems in Cyprus, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday as he stressed the importance of continuing to raise public ...

Police on Friday called on people to be cautious when carrying out online purchases after receiving another complaint from a company that they were scammed into paying more than €40,000 to ...

A stray dog called Bobby rescued from the streets of Cyprus features in Disney’s blockbuster Cruella as the canine sidekick of famous actress Emma Stone. According to the Daily ...