Cyprus

Police on Monday launched a week-long islandwide road safety campaign focusing on motorbikes and mopeds amid rising concern over fatalities among bikers. The campaign will focus on dangerous driving, wearing ...

Authorities are investigating how piles of used coronavirus rapid test kits ended up illegally dumped near a riverbed in Strovolos rather being properly disposed of by specialist companies, Environment Commissioner ...

One out of four people in Cyprus suffers from hypertension, with the number increasing to one out of two for those aged over 60, the Cyprus Cardiology Society and the Cyprus ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Monday highlighted improvements made in Cyprus in recent years to safeguard the LGBTI community but advocacy groups have drawn attention to ongoing difficulties. In a ...

President Nicos Anastasiades unveiled the government’s recovery and resilience plan on Monday, the objective of which, he said, was not just the recovery of the economy but the creation ...

Students at the Ayios Theodoros gymnasium in Paphos did not go to class for two hours on Monday morning, with the backing of the parents’ association, in protest over the ...

People aged 18 to 21 booked 8,855 vaccination appointments in the first two hours of the portal opening for their age group on Monday, the health ministry said. A total of 15,920 slots were ...

Use of the internet by older Cypriots is at similar levels as the EU average, with 58 per cent of the 65 to 74-year age group saying they had gone online, close ...

May 17 marks International Child Helpline Day which celebrates child helplines all over the world that aim to support, protect and provide comfort for this most precious and vulnerable group. Children’...

Bird trapper has been fined €9,200 after the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) filmed him setting up traps for songbirds in the Famagusta area and reported him to the authorities. According ...

Fifty-six irregular migrants aboard a boat spotted off Cape Greco on Sunday afternoon were denied entry to the Republic of Cyprus and have returned to Lebanon, the Cyprus News Agency ...

A SafePass is no longer necessary for outdoor areas of restaurants, coffee shops, theatres, cinemas etc as of Monday while the start of the evening curfew was pushed back to ...

Two people, aged 20 and 21, lost their lives in a traffic accident in Nicosia on Sunday night. According to the police, Maria Kelasidou, 20, from Strovolos and Giorgos Athansiou, 21, from Lakatamia died ...

Cyprus police handed out fines to 44 citizens and four establishment owners during the last 24 hours for violating measures aiming to contain the spread of Covid-19. A police spokesperson told the ...

An unexpected rise in inflation in the US has pundits yapping across the globe about the dangers of inflation. Consumer prices in the US rose 4 per cent on an annualised ...

They range from single issue parties such as hunting to those seeking a fairer society in general By Kyriacos Iacovides A record 15 parties, movements and coalitions will be contesting the ...

The health ministry on Sunday announced 165 new coronavirus cases, with a positivity rate of 0.26 per cent. No deaths were announced for the second day in the row. In total 157 patients ...

Officials on Sunday welcomed the decision by cruise lines to include Cyprus in their summer programmes and use port services, which, they said, is a giant boost to the country’...

Police are investigating the circumstances of the death of a man, 46, who was found dead with stab wounds in an apartment in Germasogeia, in Limassol. Authorities were alerted at around 1.30 ...

After years in the political wilderness, will independents’ day dawn at last on May 30? By Theo Panayides No independent – i.e. non-party – candidate has ever been elected to parliament in ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Monday, 69 in total. People need to present an ID or other form of identification. District Testing Sites Operating Hours Limassol (20 sites) ...

A boat with around 50 people was spotted off Cape Greco on Sunday afternoon. The vessel was spotted 16 nautical miles off Cape Greco. Police vessels with nurses and translators were on ...

The government is keen to attract young farmers to the island’s villages. Jonathan Shkurko visits Odou, where a young community is turning the land into a thriving trade Starting ...

The more people getting vaccinated the lower the number of cases and hospitalisations, the health ministry said on Sunday citing the latest epidemiological data. Analysing data between April 26 and May 14, ...