Cyprus

As efforts continue to clear Pedieos of rubbish, Lakatamia officials cite persistent fly-tipping and infrastructure gaps as factors leading to the buildup of rubbish in the area. Forty more tonnes ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a law levying a 0.4 per cent tax on all sales of immovable property, the proceeds of which to go toward supporting Greek Cypriot ...

Turkey will only join talks to resolve decades of dispute over Cyprus with a proposal to establish two states on the island, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Thursday, adding ...

One more person has died of Covid-19, while another 103 have tested positive for the coronavirus islandwide, health authorities said Thursday. The latest casualty takes the death toll to 218. The deceased ...

Executives of the organisation running the national health scheme (Gesy) insisted the system is fundamentally robust despite incidents of wastage and abuse. They were speaking at the House health committee, ...

Regional problems and challenges require solutions coming from the region itself, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday during a meeting in Athens with his counterparts from Mediterranean and Gulf ...

President Nicos Anastasiades was meeting on Thursday with the members of the negotiating team ahead of the informal five-party summit on the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said. Speaking ...

People over 76 will have access to the vaccination portal from Friday 9 am so that they can book an appointment, the health ministry has announced. A total of 9,264 appointments will be ...

The health ministry announced 53 test sites will operate on Friday for the free Covid-19 rapid testing of employees and the public. Testing is part of the health ministry’s triptych ...

Social distancing measures are likely to remain into the summer, a member of the government coronavirus advisory team said in an interview on Thursday morning. Addressing concerns over coronavirus variants, ...

Police on Thursday had in custody a man suspected of stabbing his wife and son to death and injuring his second son earlier in the day at their home in ...

Large investment projects and real estate developers called on the government on Thursday to make changes to the permanent residency programme for third country nationals to help attract more investors ...

Total government employment in January rose by 440 persons or 0.8 per cent year on year due to the hiring of temporary employees, data released by the Statistical Service of Cyprus (Cystat) ...

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Wednesday that Varosha cannot remain a ruin forever and that Turkey can transform it into “the pearl of Cyprus” once again. Speaking to ...

The lack of a green point in Dherynia is a “major problem” for the municipality, which spends more than €20,000 annually to manage garden and bulky waste, it said on Thursday. “...

The Cyprus Environmental Movement on Thursday called on the government to promote the installation of rainwater collection systems from roofs, saying we have to do everything possible so not a ...

A 79-year-old woman is the latest coronavirus-linked death in the north, as 40,000 more vaccines were delivered from Turkey. Turkish Cypriot authorities announced on Thursday that the woman had been in ...

The recycled water lakes of the Larnaca sewerage board located in Meneou have been transformed into a wetland where every year thousands of migratory birds find refuge, manager of the ...

Eleven drivers have tested positive for drugs while driving in a week, and many of whom also committed various other traffic offences. The most serious case, between February 3 and 11, appears ...

Authorities issued a dust warning on Thursday and urged vulnerable groups to avoid open spaces. The highest dust levels were recorded in Nicosia and Limassol which are double the permitted ...

Paphos police are looking for a man in connection with a burglary committed on Wednesday. A 61-year-old man reported to police that his apartment was broken into and various coins ...

While carrying out 14,170 checks to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, police booked 132 individuals in 24 hours from Wednesday until Thursday. In Nicosia, 3,209 checks were conducted, in Limassol 4,599, in Larnaca 1,559, in Paphos 1,398, ...

The Paphos archaeological museum has finally opened its doors to the public after lengthy delays in upgrading work and is well worth a visit staff say. The museum has had ...

President Nicos Anastasiades asked for a study into staffing the government’s internal audit departments with trained personnel to improve the effectiveness of risk management procedures, it was announced on ...