Cyprus

The blood bank on Sunday issued a plea for donations as supplies are dangerously low, a health ministry bulletin said. Due to a number of people being in self isolation ...

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias says that the positions of Turkey and the Turkish-Cypriot side leave little ground for optimism as regards the prospects of the informal five-party conference on ...

A total of 56 rapid test sites will operate across the island on Monday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

In a bid to keep halloumi Cypriot we set ourselves specifications we cannot meet By Kyriacos Iacovides The registering of halloumi as PDO (protected designation of origin) has been hailed ...

Around 50 people gathered outside the presidential palace on Sunday to demonstrate against vaccines, police said on Sunday. The demonstration took place between 12-1pm from members of a group called ‘...

The chairman of the Paphos hotel association called on the government on Sunday to use targeted measures for the pandemic instead of the lockdown, if there are any hopes for ...

Cyprus’ Minister of Defence Charalambos Petrides met Saturday with Armenian President Armen Sarkissian in Yerevan, in the context of his official visit to Armenia. According to a press release by ...

The first liturgy of the new Cathedral of the Archbishopric took place on Sunday, a day after it opened its doors to the public. On Saturday, the inauguration of the ...

They are only offered AstraZeneca shots By Antigoni Pitta While most attention over the vaccination programme has been on the constant portal system crashes and the AstraZeneca vaccine, those not ...

A total of 20 per cent of the population in Cyprus has received the first jab of the Covid-19 vaccine, the health ministry announced on Sunday. Specifically, as of April 23, there ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is slated to travel to Geneva on Monday morning for negotiations on the Cyprus problem, while thousands of demonstrators on Saturday marched for peace ahead of the ...

The world would be much more relaxed if coronavirus was seen as treatable. So why aren’t drugs currently used for other problems but linked to helping patients being administered ...

Four people were arrested on Sunday morning after two police officers were attacked and needed hospital treatment, after they tried to break up a party in Paphos. The four, aged 25, 26 ...

A total of 195 citizens and four businesses were booked for violating Covid-19 measures in the past 24 hours, police announced on Sunday. According to the Cyprus News Agency, between 6am on ...

Two teenage boys found with over 200 firecrackers and a flare in Larnaca were charged in writing on Sunday. According to police, the boys, aged 13 were spotted around 4pm on Saturday ...

by Kyriaki Raouna Editor’s Note: Kyriaki Raouna, 29, has been working in online business for about six years. For a discussion of online business, we don’t only want the ...

“We took the decision internally not to pursue any outside funding. We have been profitable and cashflow positive from the very beginning, because we self-funded all development. The initial software, ...

“Crypto is like the elephant in the room. It’s the missing piece in online payments. Using crypto assets, not just bitcoin, but XRP, Ethereum, etc. we can modernise the ...

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Analysts say there is very little interest in the upcoming talks and the major players are just going through the motions By Elias Hazou The – for all intents and purposes – ...

One person died from coronavirus on Saturday and 895 new cases were recorded, the ministry of health announced. This brings to 298 the total number of coronavirus deaths. The death referred to ...

A dead monk seal thought to have been caught in fishing nets was found in the north by monk seal conservation group Spot. Haris Nicolaou, part of the government’s ...

Unions asked for more help on Saturday for the businesses that will be hit by the new lockdown that will come into effect on Monday, while political parties criticised the ...

The ministry of health announced 68 testing points around the island for free rapid tests on Sunday. In addition to those taking it on a weekly rota, the ministry said the ...