Cyprus

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 ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will receive UN envoy Jane Holl Lute on June 22, it was officially announced on Saturday. According to the press and information office, the meeting will take place ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has been discharged from a private hospital after Friday’s successful minor spinal surgery. The president was discharged on Saturday morning after remaining in hospital overnight for ...

Five months after the implementation of the ‘pay as you throw’ waste management system, Aglandjia municipality has reduced its rubbish by 1,396 tonnes, the municipality said on Saturday. In a written ...

Prompt action by the Paphos ambulance service was praised by head of cardiology Dr. Joseph Moutiris after their swift response saved the life of a 20-year-old man having a cardiace ...

For the first time since October 2020, league cricket will be played in Cyprus this Sunday when a new season of the CCA #BAOFinancial T20 League commences at the Ypsonas cricket ...

Preloved clothes get a new look from one local artist who paints and embroiders on them to present a new look. Alix Norman learns more Love films? Passionate about books? ...

A 22-year-old man, Rafael Grigoriou, lost his life on Friday evening in a traffic accident near Pera Chorio when the vehicle in which he was a passengers collided with another ...

Cyprus ranked in 33rd place in the 2021 Institute for Management Development World Competitiveness Ranking Cyprus dropped three places in the ranking from the previous year, according to the survey which ...

Police said they will be stepping up their presence over the Kataklysmos long weekend to avert traffic collisions, protect properties and prevent fires. In a written statement, police said that ...

Technical Chamber Etek on Friday said it staged an impromptu visit to the under-reconstruction listed buildings near the Archbishopric in old Nicosia after receiving complaints from members of the public ...

Deputy tourism minister Savvas Perdios, accompanied by Ayia Napa mayor Christos Zannetou on Friday visited the newly-upgraded Pernera and Katsarka beaches which were reformed thanks to a sponsorship scheme aimed ...