Cyprus

Cyprus’ Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage has been awarded an EU cultural heritage award in the category ‘Dedicated Service to Heritage’, the European Commission and Europa Nostra have announced. The ...

The European Commission has loaned Cyprus €124 million under the Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) Programme, the Commission said in a press release on Tuesday. The funds ...

The number of patients at Famagusta’s referral hospital for Covid-19 has fallen to 14 or 18.6 per cent of total capacity, the facility’s scientific director Amalia Hadjiyianni told the Cyprus ...

Ancient artefacts discovered at Heritage school Heritage Private School in Limassol is hosting an archaeological exhibition with artefacts found at its premises and accompanied by students’ handmade replicas, as part ...

A charity supporting people with multiple sclerosis and their families was among the organisations honoured by the Cyprus Healthcare Business Awards for their work during the coronavirus pandemic. Cyprus Multiple ...

For the first time in over 16 years, a pair of ravens has successfully nested in the government-controlled areas and specifically in the Akamas area, BirdLife Cyprus said on its Facebook ...

The government has asked the UN to mediate so that the north does not impose a 10-day self-isolation to enclaved who cross on Sunday to vote, it emerged on Tuesday. ...

A 32-year-old National Guard officer, Xanthos Kyriacou, from Limassol died on Tuesday after an accident during a training exercise in the mountainous area of Trooditissa. The accident occurred at around 8.30...

An online tool was created to help locals decide how to vote in the May 30 parliamentary elections by comparing their views with the positions of the main political parties. Choose4...

The association of recreation centres (Osika) fully supports the planned protest announced by the Cyprus nightclub association (Pasyked), who say they have not received adequate state help during the Covid-19 ...

Nicosia police arrested a 25-year-old man late on Monday on suspicion of stealing construction tools. The man was arrested after patrol officers spotted him running a red light around 11pm. ...

Cyprus police is looking for Erkan Osbay, aged 40, on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and injury to another man. Osbay, originally from Turkey, is a permanent resident of Cyprus. ...

Voters must wear a mask when they vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but this mask cannot indicate their preferred political party, Chief Election Officer Costas Constantinou said on Tuesday ...

Bank of Cyprus announced first quarter revenue of €136 million, and operating profit of €45 million, the bank said in a statement on Tuesday. Profit after tax was €8 million. But organic profit (...

A total of 4,700 grammes of duty-free tobacco, 87 counterfeit logo T-shirts and 3,813 laughing gas ampoules were confiscated after police and customs checks in the Famagusta district. Police and the customs department ...

A bar owner in Kato Paphos was fined €3,000 for allowing customers to dance at his establishment, police said on Tuesday. The business was fined after 1,051 police checks in Paphos in ...

President Nikos Anastasiades is taking a great deal of flak over his perceived undue meddling in electioneering as the clock runs down on the May 30 parliamentary ballot – but it could ...

The Cyprus nightlife association (Pasyked) announced on Monday its members plan to protest later in the week as they feel excluded from state help. In a written announcement, nightclub owners “...

The health ministry announced two deaths and 100 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday. The dead are two men, aged 60 and 82, who passed away at Nicosia general hospital. The death toll ...

The central elections service issued on Monday some guidelines for the parliamentary elections on May 30. Polling stations will open at 7 in the morning and close at 6pm, with a lunch ...

A total of 78 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Tuesday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

More than €1 billion will be allocated in Cyprus over the next five years for a speedy transition to a ‘green economy’, three government ministers said on Monday. In opening remarks ...

Revelations that Turkish officials were allegedly behind the 1996 assassination of a Turkish Cypriot journalist in the north prompted calls for the reopening of the case, it was reported on Monday. ...

A British national who was hospitalised in Nicosia general hospital for a thrombotic episode after receiving the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has died, a health official said on Monday. Health authorities ...