Cyprus

The health ministry on Monday issued new country guidelines for travel, moving some countries from orange to green and others from red to orange. The changes come into effect from ...

Police warned motorists on Monday there would be increased patrols in the afternoon with the expected return of people to urban areas after the long weekend. Increased traffic is expected ...

A 74-year-old woman from Liopetri, Stella Costa Panagi, who was hospitalised in Nicosia last month after a car accident died on Sunday night, authorities said. She had been in hospital ...

Mushrooms can feed, heal and even clothe us. One couple is determined that the not-so-humble fungus should have a wider audience In a country where the supermarket reigns supreme, convincing ...

Paphos police are investigating a case of arson on truck in a fenced-off premises on Sunday night. According to police, at around 10.40pm they received a call at the Peyia ...

Heavy rain is negatively affecting visibility on some areas along the Nicosia-Larnaca highway, police said on Monday, especially in the areas of Latsia and Pera Chorio. “Due to the rain, ...

A 34-year-old was caught driving almost five times over the limit in Larnaca in the early hours of Monday after causing an accident. No one was injured in the incident, ...

British residents are being urged to get biometric residence cards. They don’t count as ID, but they do have your fingerprints. British expats registered or living permanently in Cyprus ...

The health ministry said there had been no new deaths from Covid on Sunday and announced that 61 people had tested positive from 30,610 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.2 ...

Screenings will be carried out at 53 sites islandwide on Monday at the following locations: Province Sampling points Hours Limassol (14 points) “Grigori Afxentiou” Square, Limassol 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. TEPAK ...

The Cyprus Brotherhood of South Africa has served its expatriate community for decades, but the pandemic and the growing desire for Cypriots to return to Cyprus has taken its toll ...

The state has a crucial role in protecting the rights of refugees, Ombudswoman and Commissioner for Administration and Protection of Human Rights Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on Sunday. In a statement ...

A strategic study is to be ready in ten months for an integrated development plan for the Tylliria area in the north-west of the island. Commissioner for Development of Mountain ...

The health ministry’s advertising campaign has become more optimistic in recent weeks The health ministry’s recent ad campaign encouraging people to get vaccinated has been hailed as a ...

Paphos CID is investing two burglaries, one in Peyia and one in Talat that netted thieves a total of almost 90,000-euros worth of cash an jewellery. According to police, in ...

During the first 24 hours of additional patrolling for the long weekend, police said on Sunday they had seized seven motorcycles and a car in Limassol over illegal modifications and not ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar says he will tell the UN Secretary-General’s envoy Jane Holl Lute at their upcoming meeting that formal negotiations on Cyprus can only take place ...

Holiday weekend weather is expected to be mostly clear but there will be a few clouds on the horizon that could see isolated showers, mainly inland, according to the met ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides, departs Sunday for Luxembourg where he is due to attend the meeting the EU Foreign Affairs Council ahead of the main summit in Brussels late in ...

Cyprus hopes to tap some €1.2 billion from the EU’s Resilience and Recovery Facility, in exchange for which it pledges to implement a series of reforms. But it’s a ...

The health ministry said there had been no new deaths from Covid on Saturday and announced that 62 people had tested positive from 41,226 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.15 ...

Health officials on Saturday urged young people yet again to get vaccinated to keep the Delta variant at bay and avoid a new outbreak similar to the one caused by ...

The health ministry announced that a total of 58 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Sunday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

Reducing food waste should be a priority, agriculture ministry permanent secretary Andreas Gregoriou said on Saturday while attending the award ceremony for a sustainable gastronomy competition. Yearly statistics show that 1.3 ...