Cyprus

Elderly British expats hit the hardest by pandemic-induced closure For 91-year-old Ivy Gibson the UKCA social club in Paphos is a lifeline that staves off loneliness, a feeling that has ...

A solar power park in Solea has been presented as a green project to increase Cyprus’ production of energy from renewable sources, so why are so many environmentalists against it? ...

The health ministry announced 107 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday from 35,028 PCR and rapid tests, giving a positivity rate of 0.3%. No new deaths occurred. The total to date remains at 229 ...

A week after a protest that was broken up by police, a second protest took place against corruption and the measures taken to control the pandemic. It was much larger ...

The health ministry has announced the testing locations for Monday as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (15 points) Church of Agios Ioannis Eleimonos, Limassol 8.30 a.m.-5.30 p.m. “Panos ...

The Cyprus Medical Association (Cyma) said on Sunday it would await the outcome of legal proceedings concerning allegations of sexual harassment against a Nicosia doctor before taking its own appropriate ...

The next few days will be crucial when it comes to seeing how the epidemiological picture is unfolding, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Sunday. In a post on Facebook ...

The government’s new rural housing policy is targeted and “extremely generous” and could be extended next year on review, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Sunday. Nouris was speaking ...

As part of their regular contacts, President Nicos Anastasiades spoke by phone on Sunday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macros, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said in a written statement. During ...

Pig farmers pay the price as year of lockdowns has compounded existing problems Throughout the past year of pandemic disruption, Cyprus seems to have been little impacted in terms of ...

A motorist was arrested on Sunday for speeding after being caught driving at 197kph on the highway. The man was arrested, charged and released after police nabbed him on the ...

The Animal Party said on Sunday it had joined a campaign with other European animal welfare organisations against the transport of live animals inside and outside the EU. The party ...

With the chance of negotiations again becoming a reality, who is the man who leads the Turkish Cypriots? Agnieszka Rakoczy says he is seen as fast minded and innovative but ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides is travelling to Brussels to participate in the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union, which takes place on Monday. During the Council, the foreign ministers ...

President Nicos Anastasiades and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have agreed that the EU needs to be represented at the informal meeting on Cyprus, which will be called ...

Three DJs and 14 other people were found at a “secret illegal club” in Larnaca on Saturday night, police said. The patrons of the establishment and the DJs were fined 300 euros ...

Booster vaccines to combat emerging Covid variants, and annual jabs for coronavirus can’t be ruled out, according to a government scientific adviser. Dr Christos Petrou, Associate Professor at the ...

The ‘vaccination passport’ deal reached with Israel last Sunday for Israeli travellers to Cyprus cannot be replicated with other countries at the moment, according to Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas ...

Health authorities announced 107 new coronavirus infections on Saturday from 31,755 tests, a positivity rate of 0.34 per cent, but no new deaths were recorded. Seventy-seven people were being treated in hospital with 22 ...

The ministry of health on Saturday announced 55 testing points for Sunday. District Location Time Limassol Ayios Ioannis Eleimonos church 9.30 a.m.-6 p.m. Panos Solomonides cultural centre 9.30 a.m....

Several thousand people marched in Nicosia on Saturday in a protest against state corruption and pandemic restrictions that ended peacefully, unlike a similar event last week, which ended in violence. ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘health minister’ Ali Pilli has been dismissed, reports said Saturday. Pilli was replaced by Unal Ustel, who until Saturday was ‘transport minister.’ The ‘transport ministry’ went to Resmiye ...

A court convening at Nicosia general hospital on Saturday renewed a remand order for a man accused of killing his wife and son for another eight days. The 59-year-old was ...

Hundreds of officers will be deployed in Nicosia and Limassol on Saturday to oversee protests considered high-risk following trouble during a demonstration in the capital last week where police were ...