Cyprus

President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday night criticised groups of people in Limassol for not complying with the Covid-19 health decrees, in an address to the nation. “It is with great ...

The health ministry announced one death and 475 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, with a positivity rate of 0.99 per cent, taking Cyprus past the 40,000 cases mark. The death concerns a 73-year-old ...

A 30-year-old man on Tuesday confessed that he attended a party at a house in Paphos despite coronavirus restrictions, while a woman is due in court on Wednesday for attending ...

Downtown Nicosia was in a cheerful mood on Tuesday morning as bars, cafés and restaurants welcomed customers for the first time in months. As staff carried out the finishing ...

The rapid test locations for Wednesday have been announced by the health ministry, the first day after restaurants, cafes and bars reopening to the public after months of being closed. ...

The creation of a deputy ministry for culture was described as an “historic moment” by Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Tuesday. A bill for the creation of a deputy ministry ...

A Greens candidate MP has been referred to the party’s disciplinary council after hurling insults on social media at Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis, it emerged on Tuesday. Party head ...

The British government is to invest significantly in the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus, and other Overseas Territories (OT) according to a 100-page strategy, Global Britain in a Competitive Age, ...

The European Commission has set a date to vote on the PDO status of halloumi, spokeswoman Miriam Garcia Ferrer said on Tuesday with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar saying an ...

Russian tourists are expected to be welcome in Cyprus as of April 1, according to sources close to the deputy ministry of tourism. Phillip Orphanides contributed to this article. Tourism operators ...

One of the government’s scientific team said on Tuesday he expected restrictions would be lifted by the end of April. Dr Petros Karayiannis, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Virology ...

Political leaders in their majority said they would accompany President Nicos Anastasiades to the informal five-party summit set to take place next month in Geneva to support and advise him, ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Tuesday he had launched a series of contacts with parties in a bid to secure the maximum possible consensus so that the local government ...

In 2020, some 20.6 per cent of the EU population was aged 65 years or over; 3 percentage points higher than the corresponding share from a decade earlier, Eurostat reported on Tuesday. In Cyprus, 16.3 ...

Police are investigating the theft of jewellery worth €4,000 from a house in Paphos. A 70-year-old woman reported to police on Tuesday the jewellery was stolen from her home in Moutallos, ...

Port workers employed by DP World who began an indefinite strike on Tuesday over layoffs agreed after a labour ministry intervention to call off their action and begin a dialogue ...

It has been decided to buy an amount of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine once it will be approved by the European Medicines Agency, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos told state ...

Some 208 coronavirus patients are currently in public hospitals, while another 800 are treated in state hospitals for other illnesses, with the result that more than 80 per cent of the beds are ...

Limassol police on Tuesday arrested a man in connection with a robbery committed earlier this month. On March 6 at around 2.30am an unknown person entered premises in Limassol, and, threatening ...

Police booked 172 individuals for breaching coronavirus measures on Green Monday while carrying out 13,613 checks. In Nicosia, 2,596 checks were conducted, in Limassol 2,903, in Larnaca 1,848, in Paphos 1,192, in Famagusta 2,239 and in Morphou 1,669. ...

The future of a crumbling colonial building located in Nicosia’s Akademias park hangs in the balance, with the forestry department debating whether to tear it down or restore it. ...

The national council is scheduled to convene on Tuesday morning to discuss the latest developments in the Cyprus issue ahead of a meeting in Geneva set to take place at ...

Three men were found guilty and received a jail sentence in the north on Monday for stealing a luxury car from a 24-year-old man in Pyla last year. Turkish Cypriot ...

The health ministry suspended AstraZeneca vaccinations until Thursday, pending instructions from the European Medicines Agency, after several EU countries reported possible serious side effects, it was announced on Monday evening. ...