Cyprus

According to the health ministry, data until August 9, showed that the percentage of first-dose jabs stood at 75.8 per cent and the number of fully vaccinated (18+) reached 68.5 per cent. Vaccination coverage ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said the government’s main aim is to reopen all schools in September to allow students to come back normally and physically attend their classes. “The ...

A 45-year-old man has been remanded for three days by the Paphos court in connection with a complaint of rape. According to police, on August 2, a complaint was made by ...

Paphos police are investigating two more cases of forgery after the arrest of two people at Paphos airport. According to police, a woman was arrested in the early hours of ...

Police fined 32 people citizens and two business for violations of Covid measures during 4,096 checks islandwide in the past 24 hours. In Nicosia police carried out 1,752 checks and fined four people and ...

There’s welcome news for holidaymakers in search of Mediterranean sun and sand! As more and more of us get vaccinated against the coronavirus, a growing number of countries are ...

Ryanair has announced a new base opening in Newcastle for Summer ’22, with a new roundtrip route added to Paphos. Ryanair said that there is “massive demand,” in a statement on ...

Hellenic Bank has accumulated a property portfolio worth €300 million and is now looking to sell it. The properties were the result of borrower debt and related debt restructuring initiatives and ...

Business in Limassol is better this year by Kyriacos Nicolaou and Andrew Rosenbaum Business in Limassol is “not as gloomy” this year as it was in 2020, according to a survey ...

Conservationists are saying that the proliferation of mosquitoes in the island’s wetlands is mostly attributed to human activities and not merely a natural occurrence. A report published by BirdLife ...

THE Ports Authority has announced it will be collecting essential items for the people affected by the wildfires in Greece. The authority announced that it will be collecting dry food, ...

The ‘300k Trees in Nicosia’ NGO said on Monday that a ‘significant’ donation from the Australian High Commission will help the group achieve its goal of planting 300,000 trees in the ...

Three deaths from coronavirus and 446 new cases were announced on Monday, out of 42,427 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.05 per cent. The deaths were two men, aged 61 and 72, ...

A probe has been ordered in the north into the mass felling of trees on the foot of the Pentadactylos mountain in Kyrenia for the construction of a residential plot, ...

Police are investigating five cases relating to fake Covid vaccination cards allegedly issued by doctors, the health minister said on Monday, as the Cyprus Medical Association (Cyma) was seeking to ...

No money was lost, nor was there any attempt to defraud the party and the issue is therefore closed, Edek said on Monday, citing the findings of an investigation into ...

The Al Jazeera network on Monday aired a new documentary which – though dealing with the laundering of money through the purchase of English football clubs – also reveals some of the ...

Famagusta district court set September 13 as the date for the court case of Nava club, which was suspended on Friday night, after serious violations of the rules taken to stop ...

Local authorities and the Green Party on Monday both slammed the government departments responsible for allowing public use of a dangerous road in Akamas, following a fatal traffic accident there ...

The health ministry has announced 48 state rapid testing sites for Tuesday People need to present proof of identity to get tested, such as ID, passport or driver’s licence. District ...

The mountain village is known for its intricate lace work. ALIX NORMAN meets a woman who has transferred the art to cookies Lefkaritika is one of Cyprus’ oldest traditions – a ...

Larnaca’s municipal food bank is making every effort to help as many families as possible despite problems with understaffing, its manager Kokos Gerasimou told the Cyprus News Agency on ...

Residents of Kili community said on Monday that they will hold a protest over the government’s lack of compensation after a fire that started near Kamares spread to the ...

Three countries were downgraded from the Green to Orange category and another three from Orange to Red following the health ministry’s latest epidemiological risk assessment published on Monday. The ...