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Optimism a solution will be found between the state health services organisation (Okypy) and radiographers working in public hospitals was expressed on Tuesday as the latter decided not to proceed ...

More than six out of ten Cypriots do not trust the national government, whereas one in two believe things are moving in the wrong direction, according to the first results ...

The political controversy kept raging on Tuesday over four presidential assistants whose fixed contracts got converted to open-ended contracts, effectively giving them civil servant status – something explicitly proscribed by law ...

Electricity production from natural gas can be expected during the first half of 2023, the chairman of the public natural gas company said Tuesday. Symeon Kassianides said no extra cost to ...

No deaths from Covid were recorded in the past 24 hours, as 266 new infections were detected after 57,173 tests, a positivity rate of 0.47 per cent, the health ministry said Tuesday. Seventy-one people ...

The responsibility to abide by CovScan rules should fall exclusively on the public, not businesses, the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) and the Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) ...

Police seized two kilos of cannabis and arrested a 36-year-old man on Tuesday after a car chase in rural Larnaca. According to drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos, the man, who ...

Cypriot women make 10.4 per cent less than men, meaning they need to work more days a year for the same salary, gender equality commissioner Iosifina Antoniou said on Tuesday. “For 2021, ...

The bicycle purchase portal reopens on Wednesday for conventional bikes, having on Tuesday pre-approved 25 applications for the purchase of bicycles for the disabled from 183 people who registered. The transport ministry ...

The Edek party has released information that it says raises serious questions about former health minister Giorgos Pamboridis, particularly how his personal financial interests influence his opinions on the national ...

A service to mark Remembrance Day will be held in Paphos on Sunday at Peyia municipality car park, and the public is invited to attend. The service, organised by Alan ...

Antiquities department staff will hold a one-hour work stoppage on Wednesday to protest plans which could see the division of responsibility on cultural heritage to the two constituent states in ...

The Met service has issued a warning for gale force winds on Wednesday, which are expected to affect the eastern part of the island. The warning concerns the hours between 9...

A 26-year-old woman who had initially reported an ambulance employee for pretending to be a doctor and issuing a fake coronavirus vaccination certificate for her will also appear in court, ...

Georgia looks forward to Cyprus’ support for its European aspirations and recognises that it can learn from Cyprus, which followed the same path until it joined the bloc, President Salome ...

A total of 23 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Wednesday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas on Tuesday renewed appeals to the public to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, amid a resurgence of the pandemic in many countries in Europe and an ...

In a virtuoso bouzouki player, PAUL LAMBIS finds a woman who has benefitted from the healing power of music Bouzouki virtuoso Georgia Kombou, and the rightful successor in the lineage ...

A graphic and visual designer has transformed an old Aglandjia basketball court with a “pioneering work of art”. Stelios Papageorgiou, a graphic and visual designer graduate from the European University ...

Members of the parliament’s ad hoc committee on demographics on Tuesday expressed concern about the low birth rate of 1.3 per cent recorded in 2020, and called for immediate measures. Committee ...

Public hospitals are now equipped with state-of-the-art mobile radiography machines that offer flexibility in examining patients who cannot be taken to the radiology department, the state health services organisation (Okypy) ...

Any technical adjustments needed for the CovScan application will be carried out, deputy minister Kyriacos Kokkinos said on the Tuesday, after local application to verify EUDCC certificates ran into sporadic ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) are suggesting VAT on electricity bills is lowered to five per cent across the board for the next three months to help contain costs ...

Several fires that erupted over the last two weeks in the Akamas national park area were likely man-made, according to a report compiled by the forestry department, which said the ...