Cyprus

The arrivals of tourists reached 297,308 in July 2021, recording an increase of 358 per cent compared with July 2020, during which 64,914 arrivals were recorded. However, this July marked a decrease of 46 per cent ...

The chairman of the Cyprus Respiratory Society expressed concern Tuesday over the high number of Covid patients in intensive care (ICU) and the possibility of the situation worsening with the ...

The European Commission has approved a €1billion Cypriot scheme to support enterprises and self-employed individuals in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. The scheme was approved under the State aid ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced that a brand of organic food spread was being withdrawn from the market as it contains a preservative that was not listed as it ...

The production of recycled water in 2020 at the wastewater treatment plant in Larnaca, exceeded 3.5 million cubic metres, it was announced on Tuesday. Larnaca Sewerage Board said in a statement that ...

Five business owners and 46 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus protocols in the last 24 hours, police said early on Tuesday. The fines resulted from 3,740 checks nationwide between 6am on Monday ...

A Congolese woman was arrested after she tried to depart the island using documents that did not belong to her, police said on Tuesday. The woman arrived at the Paphos ...

One man was remanded on Tuesday, while a woman was arrested in connection with an arson attack on a room of the Limassol district court where evidence was being kept. ...

The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) on Friday informed the public that, at its meeting held on the 5th April 2021, CySEC decided to impose an administrative ...

Not all residents following municipality’s pioneering pay-as-you throw scheme Thousands of residents in Aglandjia are not following the municipality’s pay-as-you-throw system, resulting in dozens of trash bags piling ...

Justice Minister, Stevi Drakou, acted as mediator between the police chief and the director of the Central Prisons on Monday after a dispute over a police search of a wing ...

A seven-day old baby is among three children hospitalised with coronavirus in Makario hospital, it emerged late on Monday. Doctors described the baby’s condition as good despite some fever. ...

Police on Monday said they are investigating a series of burglaries reported in Limassol and Paphos over the August 15 holiday weekend. A 55-year-old woman reported that her house in Ayia ...

Cyprus has expressed readiness to assist in fighting the wildfires that rage in Israel. Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said in a post on Twitter that he had had a telephone ...

Ryanair airlines on Monday announced three new Cyprus routes for Germany and Poland for this winter. The new destinations concern Cologne and Memmingen in Germany, as well as Wroclaw in ...

Five deaths from coronavirus and 381 new cases were announced by the health ministry on Monday, out of 44,374 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.84. A 70-year-old woman died on ...

Fires which broke out in Limassol and Nicosia on Monday were brought under control by the evening. Four helicopters and several fire engines were scrambled to extinguish a fire on ...

The government is expected to announce on Tuesday the e-mail address through which Turkish Cypriots vaccinated against Covid-19 who plan to travel abroad can obtain an EU Digital Covid Certificate. ...

Two people suspected of stealing items from sunbeds in Protaras have been charged after being arrested on Sunday. On Sunday afternoon, a police officer noticed a young man holding a ...

Both sides reiterated their widely divergent positions on the basis for resuming Cyprus negotiations on Monday as they marked the day Turkish troops took control of Morphou and Famagusta on ...

The number of Russian tourists to Cyprus fell 43.1 per cent in the first six months of the year compared with the same period in 2019, it was reported on Monday, quoting ...

Police and the department of prisons on Monday agreed that the clash at the Nicosia central prisons between prisoners and officers who were conducting cell searches earlier this month was ...

The rainfall so far in August is 110 per cent of what is normal for the time of the year after the recent rain and thunderstorms, the met office reported on ...

ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum plan on drilling for gas in an offshore block towards the end of the year, Energy Minister Natasa Pilidou has said. In an interview with daily ...