Cyprus

The attorney-general has ordered the criminal prosecution of a state pathologist for refusing to carry out a post-mortem and not complying with the order of a coroner because of Covid. ...

The number of SMS sent for permission of movement has not changed much over the past three days but has increased from last week, statistics published by the deputy ministry ...

Turkish Cypriot health authorities were forced to interrupt Covid screenings on Thursday morning after they were overwhelmed by the large number of people wanting to be tested, reports said. According ...

Discussions of the Cyprus proposals in the draft Plan of Recovery and Sustainability (European Recovery funding plan) are to begin on February 11, according to a press release from the finance ...

The government has started making payments to some 30,000 businesses and the self-employed as part of a state assistance scheme for direct cash grants to cover operating expenses. According to the ...

The UK will play a supporting role in helping to resolve the Cyprus problem, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Thursday after a meeting in Nicosia with counterpart Nikos Christodoulides. ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Thursday refuted claims that the forced sale of public hospitals is on the cards unless the state health services organisation (Okypy) succeeds in putting its ...

The rapid testing site operating on Thursday in the industrial area of Ayios Athanasios, in Limassol has been transferred to the Cultural Centre of Ayios Athanasios due to the weather, ...

Disy is submitting a bill to amend town planning law following the church-sanctioned demolition of listed buildings in old Nicosia, the party said on Thursday. Disy’s parliamentary spokesman Nicos ...

During the past ten days Larnaca police have identified three drivers under the influence of drugs, while the three had also committed other traffic violations. According to the police, the ...

A man in Paphos was stopped in on Wednesday night for driving under the influence of drugs and violating the curfew. Officers stopped the 31-year-old driver around midnight as part ...

Cyprus has uses the second highest share of fossil fuels of all EU member states, Eurostat figures published on Thursday show. In 2019, Malta (97 per cent) was the EU Member State ...

Paphos police were seeking a 23-year-old man on Thursday suspected of injuring another man with a knife during an argument. The incident, according to police, happened on Wednesday afternoon in ...

Two Nicosia nurseries were evacuated on Thursday morning after receiving an email threatening to blow them up unless they paid a ransom. The first email was received in the morning ...

Larnaca police on Wednesday evening arrested a 27-year-old man wanted in connection with a robbery and assault, crimes committed last Saturday. He was charged and released on Thursday morning. The ...

Police arrested a 35-year-old man in Limassol on Wednesday to facilitate investigations into the seizure of 30 kilos of cannabis and 300 kilos of fireworks in December. He is the fifth person ...

A total of 168 individuals were fined for breaching coronavirus decrees from Wednesday until Thursday morning, police reported. Unlike other days, no businesses were booked. A total of 9,950 checks were carried ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has assessed that the state health services organisation (Okypy) will be unable to cover its budget deficit by 2024, the date when the state support is due to ...

Police warned on Wednesday that increased internet use by minors during the pandemic has given sex offenders easier access to their victims. “During the Covid-19 crisis we are going through, ...

By Apostolis Zoupaniotis, New York The United States supports a Cypriot-led comprehensive settlement to reunify the island as a bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF), which would benefit all Cypriots as well ...

The British examination board Pearson Edexcel International announced on Wednesday that its international exams would not go ahead as planned this summer. This will affect hundreds of students at private ...

The mayor of Paphos has hit back at MPs and other attendees at Tuesday’s session of the House refugee committee, calling them out for ‘political cannibalism’ and ‘personal insults’ ...

One death and 139 new cases of coronavirus were reported on Wednesday. The health ministry said 126 people were in hospital. Thirty-nine are in serious condition with 23 intubated. The death was of 79...

More positive cases have been found for the Covid-19 variant first detected in the UK, but none for the variants from South Africa and Brazil, the health ministry said on ...