Cyprus

Cyprus will take a big step today with optimism and some concern, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday as Cyprus bid farewell to the SMS system, implementing the SafePass ...

Police charged 121 people over the 24 hours up to Monday morning for breaking coronavirus decrees. The charges came from a total of 8,016 checks around the island. In Nicosia a total of 1,183 ...

Lack of trust in big parties and the dominance in everyone’s lives of the pandemic have led to a previously unseen apathy in the lead-up to the parliamentary election ...

Two people died from coronavirus on Sunday and 269 new cases were found among a record 109,846 tests, the ministry of health announced. The two deaths bring to 336 the number of people ...

A dead turtle was found on the beach in the Dasaki area of Oroklini on Sunday afternoon. It had washed up on the rocks near the shore and was brought ...

Loss of habitat and use of pesticides are harming these pollinators without which we are doomed By Patricia Jordan Early last month as I was sitting on a bench in ...

In the first hour and a half after it opened on Sunday morning the vaccination portal saw a total of 8,270 appointments booked by people aged 31 and 32. These were from a ...

The government’ free testing programme continues on Monday with rapid test sites in 63 locations around the island. Where there are up to five people working physically present all should get ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides will inform his EU counterparts about the discussions and the outcome of the informal meeting on Cyprus which was convened by the UN Secretary General in ...

The Pancyprian Association of Supermarkets (Pasype) reassured customers on Sunday that they would not need a Safepass to enter their stores, but they will need on if they want to ...

An underwater museum is set to boost the island’s profile when it opens in July, but exactly what it will look like is being kept under wraps An underwater ...

A total of 27 cases of sexual abuse have been investigated by the specialised police team, 15 of which have been sent to court for trial, police spokeswoman Eleni Constantinou said on ...

From tomorrow Cyprus will take a step towards the return to more normal rhythms of social and economic activity, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Sunday. “This step is the ...

Residents of villages in or next to the buffer zone where the government is currently installing barbed wire have held a demonstration against it, saying the wire is affecting some ...

Huge queues formed on Sunday at rapid testing sites in all areas. Due to increased demand the ministry of health said all sites will remain open until 7.30pm on Sunday ...

China’s Ambassador to Cyprus, Liu Yantao answers the Cyprus Mail’s questions on issues ranging from relations between the two countries and health cooperation on the pandemic to Hong ...

People using public transport as of Monday will have to have had a negative result from PCR or rapid test, have been vaccinated with at least one dose three weeks ...

Under the pandemic conditions of the last 14 months women have taken on a disproportionate burden largely because they are in the majority in working roles in the front line, Labour ...

Close colleague of former president Glafcos Clerides and director of his presidential office Pantelis Kouros died on Saturday, aged 89. Condolence messages and donations in his memory can be made here: ...

Forty one new cases of coronavirus were reported in the north on Saturday out of a total of 8,276 tests. The ‘ministry of health’ said these referred to one overseas traveller, 12 ...

A total of 138 individuals and three businesses were charged by the police in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Sunday for breaking coronavirus restrictions. A police spokesman told the ...

A total of 354,264 vaccines had been administered in Cyprus by Saturday, the ministry of health announced on Sunday, representing 40.3 injections per 100 residents. Of these 270,101 (36.5%) were the first dose and 84,163 (11.4%) the ...

A further two people arrested in connection with the setting fire to a police patrol car in Limassol on Holy Saturday were remanded in police custody for five days by ...

The ‘safe pass’ -the colloquial term for documentation allowing people unfettered access to any venue – will be used “long term” and can be displayed in either electronic or print form, ...