Cyprus

The ministry of health on Sunday afternoon announced 54 testing sites on Monday for rapid Covid-19 tests. It also reminded that all those who go to work are required to take ...

Akel leader Andros Kyprianou on Sunday took the opportunity of the International Day against Racism to accuse the government of not caring about foreigners, just how wealthy they were. At ...

Parents of primary age children will join a demonstration outside the Presidential palace on Monday to protest the ongoing online lessons for gymnasium students, they announced on Sunday. The Pancyprian ...

After confirmation from the European Medicines Agency and the World Health Organisation last week about the safety and efficacy of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, the ministry of health on Sunday ...

Mayor of Polis Chrysochous Yiotis Papachristofi said on Sunday he is in favour of the integration of the Municipality with all surrounding communities, amid discussions for holding a referendum on ...

The decision by Turkey to withdraw from the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention is alarming and deeply regrettable, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. “Yet another example of the ...

The Cypriot authorities have issued an anti-Navtex after a Navtex was issued on Saturday by Turkey for exercises in the Bay of Morphou, sources told the Cyprus News Agency on ...

Parties, organisations and unions held a demonstration on Saturday night in north Nicosia against freedom of speech under the slogan ‘We are not Afraid. We will not be Silenced’. Around 200 ...

Parents angered over ministry’s refusal to accept them despite being on its own approved list Rapid saliva tests for coronavirus, an alternative to nasal rapid and PCR tests, have ...

The effect of illegal carnival gatherings last weekend and the relaxations of measures last Tuesday will start to be seen by the epidemiological team as of this coming Tuesday, a ...

EU Turkish relations will be discussed by the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday, for which Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides will depart later on Sunday. The Council will ...

Police were on Sunday continuing their search for the people who cut part of the barbed wire that has been put along a section of the buffer zone to prevent ...

Eight businesses and 118 people were charged for violating coronavirus decrees in the 24 hours up to 6am on Sunday. The businesses were in Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca and Famagusta. Two were charged ...

All the PCR tests but one on 26 people at the Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos taken have come back negative. The tests were taken after 26 out of 75 soldiers at ...

For the first time, a comprehensive effort is underway to make the island a technology hub Cyprus is framing a comprehensive, holistic policy to compete as a technology hub, Invest ...

Less than two years before the government’s proposed Akamas national park sustainable plan is due to be implemented, environmentalists and landowners in the area remain as deeply divided as ...

Water has been discovered during pilot drilling in Stavrovouni with a new high-tech land drilling rig, the agriculture ministry said on Friday. The discovery was part of the testing of ...

The health ministry announced one death and 407 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday from 53,774 PCR and rapid tests, yielding a positivity rate of 0.7 per cent. The death concerned a man ...

Rapid test sampling units for Sunday are as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (18 points) Church of Agios Ioannis Eleimonos, Limassol 9.30 a.m.-7.30 p.m. TEPAK Building “Andreas Themistokleous”, ...

A missing diver was rescued by helicopter on Saturday afternoon by a team from the Larnaca joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC). According to the JRCC, they received information about a ...

The exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey and the negotiations for the solution of the Cyprus issue “must reach a satisfactory conclusion and cannot go on endlessly – time is not ...

Gymnasiums could reopen if Covid protocols are implemented but how soon that may be has not yet been decided, an adviser to the government told secondary school union Oelmek, it ...

Cyprus will fail to manage the migration flow to the island unless the EU adopts a “coordinated, fair and balanced” policy which would be tailored to its member states, Interior ...

More Nicosia-based volunteers will clean-up Pedieos riverbed for the third week in a row on Sunday. Four mattresses and a full bath set including a toilet, a sink and a ...