Cyprus

President Nicos Anastasiades welcomed on Monday evening the registration of halloumi by the EU as a protected designation of origin (PDO), seven years after Cyprus first applied. “A milestone day ...

Paphos cafes, restaurants and other recreational businesses said they would remain closed on Monday and Tuesday in protest over the recent police bookings of several hospitality businesses. The Paphos branch ...

A total of 58 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Tuesday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The committee of inquiry looking into the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme will deliver its interim report to the attorney-general on April 6. Committee chair and former judge Myron Nicolatos told news ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday had a meeting with EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, at the Presidential Palace. He said after the meeting the commissioner briefed ...

MPs on Monday released funding earmarked for the renting of premises by government ministries and state departments, including one line item for a €9,000-a-month rent of office space by parliament ...

Lower secondary school (gymnasium) pupils are expected to return to class on Friday, it emerged on Monday. Citing the recommendations of the scientific advisers, the health and education ministers announced ...

Main opposition Akel’s social policy ahead of parliamentary elections on May 30 was outlined by leader Andros Kyprianou at a press conference on Monday. Akel’s suggestions spanned policies affecting ...

Limassol bishop Athanasios was on Monday discharged from Nicosia general hospital, where he had been admitted last week after testing positive for the coronavirus. A statement by the Limassol Holy ...

Cyprus’ new commemorative stamp to mark 50 years since the foundation of the Anti-Cancer Society on the island aims to spread a humanitarian message, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Monday. ...

Cyprus is the largest beneficiary of European Investment Bank (EIB) engagement in Europe relative to GDP, the EIB said on Monday as it announced a €19 million loan agreement with Epic ...

There has been a reduction in the number of cases in Covid-19 state hospital wards all over Cyprus, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Monday. Speaking to ...

The government on Monday waded into a row over terminology used by citizens umbrella group Os Dame (Enough), saying it was disappointed the organisation had adopted phrases which undermine the ...

Famagusta kidney patients warned on Monday they will refuse blood transfusions to protest the lack of staff and modern equipment in the haematology ward. “If our demands are not met ...

Against a backdrop of an increase in violence against women, MPs on Monday started to review of a new bill incorporating the Istanbul Convention as Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis announced ...

Excavations to reconstruct the layout of ancient Paphos have been completed, the department of antiquities announced on Monday after a joint archaeological expedition by the University of Warsaw’s Centre ...

More than 30 per cent of the 19,246 Covid vaccination appointments for people with diabetes and severe obesity were booked early on Monday, according to the health ministry. The appointments became available ...

Someone unsuccessfully tried to hack the Defence Ministry website last week, reliable sources told the Cyprus News Agency on Monday. “The effort was successfully halted and the website suffered no ...

The readiness of hotels to welcome tourists is a given and the efforts of tour operators, especially British ones, towards starting flights from May, creates the prospect of the tourist ...

A total of 370 trees are being planted in the Prophitis Elias area of Oroklini on Monday near a picnic site as the community steps up efforts to increase its green ...

The health ministry on Monday upgraded Russia, the UK and Israel, the three biggest markets for Cyprus in terms of tourism, from grey to red category, meaning passengers arriving from ...

A 37-year-old was taken to hospital late on Sunday night after he was attacked by a group of youths in central Paphos. The police were alerted to the incident at 11...

A less intrusive method of coronavirus nasal rapid tests will be used to test pupils of upper secondary schools (lyceums), the health ministry announced on Monday, only to be met ...

A man in possession of drugs and pistol cartridges arrested by police in Larnaca on Sunday afternoon was remanded in police custody for five days by a court on Monday. ...