Cyprus

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal to reduce the sentence of a woman jailed for six years after pleading guilty to child trafficking in connection with the illegal ...

by Invest Cyprus The worldwide shift towards e-commerce and online services amid lockdowns and other Covid restrictions is likely to continue as economies open up in the post-pandemic era, and ...

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A new index created by WiRE FS shows that the prices of Cyprus property, across most categories, fell in the first quarter of 2021. Rents also recorded a drop in most ...

Cyprus has the biggest percentage across the EU of people who do not wish to get vaccinated according to the latest Standard Eurobarometer. Based on the results of the Eurobarometer, ...

The House of Representatives on Friday held its last plenary session before the parliamentary elections due to take place on May 30. The parliament decided unanimously to be dissolved beginning as ...

The health ministry on Friday released a list of clarifications following the new lockdown announced earlier in the day. According to the ministry, private and public nurseries and kindergartens must ...

The health ministry announced one death and 889 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday from 66,634 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.33 per cent. The death concerns an 85-year-old man ...

A panel investigating the controversial citizenship by investment programme said Friday its interim findings reports would be published after personal data and certain other data were redacted for public interest ...

A total of 69 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The House of Representatives on Friday approved tougher consumer protection legislation with 43 votes in favour and three abstentions. The vote of the omnibus bill in the last session of parliament ...

A new vaccination centre opened at the state fair in Nicosia on Friday as Cyprus ramps up its vaccination drive in a race to contain a surge of new coronavirus ...

A well-known and respected Paphos resident was arrested for calling the community leader of Mandria “useless” in the comments section of a Facebook page and is now trying to find ...

The government on Friday imposed a fresh lockdown for two weeks between April 26 and May 9 in a bid to stem the rapid spread of Covid infections, which are threatening to ...

A second Covid-19 ward has opened at Paphos Hospital as the state health services scramble for beds amid a surge in admissions. Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said that eight beds ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides travels to Armenia on Friday where he will represent President Nicos Anastasiades at events to be held in Yerevan on Saturday to commemorate victims of the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday informed the National Council of the preparations ahead of the informal conference on Cyprus, scheduled to take place in Geneva next week. In a written ...

The replica of an ancient Cypriot Chalcolithic roundhouse, dating back to around 2800–2400 BC, was completed at the Kissonerga-Mosfilia in Paphos. The actual building chosen for the reconstruction was ‘Building 3’, also ...

Amid stiff competition from other top tourist destinations, three government ministers have set out to make the case as to why prospective travellers should pick the Mediterranean island. Cyprus is ...

For the first time in Cyprus, a kidney transplant from a mother to a child was successfully performed, the health ministry announced on Friday. The transplant, from a mother to ...

After intense negotiations for several days in Moscow, the Russian Federation has agreed to restart regular flights to Cyprus on May 1, according to a tourism industry source. An official announcement ...

More than 1700 Johnson & Johnson single dose Covid-19 vaccines were booked through the vaccination portal on Friday, the first day they were made available here. The J&J shots ...

A woman says she has reported to police that around 10 years ago she had been raped by a man who is running for parliament in the upcoming elections. In a ...