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The Supreme Court has upheld a decision for a 45-day prison sentence of a man who failed to return of his two children back to their mother and for turning ...

Some examples of funding €40 million will go to SMEs and councils and communities €20.5 million for energy efficiency for homes and renewables €78.4 million for improvement business competitiveness €96 million for improvement of ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Wednesday called for political parties to support necessary reforms so that Cyprus can fully utilise the €1.2 billion from the national recovery and resilience plan. Petrides ...

A Molotov cocktail that was thrown at Polemidia police station late on Tuesday night has been condemned by police chief Stelios Papatheodorou. He said that such actions constitute an attack ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis visited the new police station at Anexartisias street in Limassol on Wednesday, saying that the goal is to help locals feel safer. She was accompanied by ...

The first cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19 have been detected in Cyprus, the health ministry announced on Wednesday. The variant was detected in four of the samples taken ...

Cyprus’ Eurovision song, El Diablo, which got through to the final round on Tuesday evening, has been endorsed by none other than Lucifer himself who gave the song 12 points. Netflix, ...

Former Kitium bishop Chrysostomos appeared before the Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court on Wednesday to examine whether his mental state hinders him from following legal proceedings against him relating to rape charges. ...

Hospitals have seen a significant improvement in the past few days, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Wednesday. There are currently 150 coronavirus patients in hospitals, of whom 33 ...

The British colonialists blamed roaming, chomping goats for the treeless state of the island and penned them in. How wrong they were By Martin Hellicar I looked up the etymology ...

The fire service notified the public on Wednesday that it will be performing an agroforestry exercise next week. The exercise, called “Pyrsos (Torch) 2021” will take place on Monday, May 24, between 10...

The vaccination portal reopened on Wednesday morning for those aged between 61 and 65, with more openings coming later in the week. The portal reopenings are part of the health ministry’s ...

A 10-year-old boy has been injured by a firecracker in Larnaca, police said on Wednesday. Police said the incident took place a little after 8pm on Tuesday night, and the ...

Defence minister Charalambos Petrides will meet his Greek and Egyptian counterparts in Nicosia on Wednesday afternoon. Petrides will meet Nikolaos Panayiotopoulos and General Mohamed Zaki to discuss the latest developments ...

Police have booked 15 people for breaching coronavirus measures in the past 24 hours, specifically for not using masks. From Tuesday morning to Wednesday morning, police said they performed 4,601 checks, 1,143 of which ...

Cyprus minister of energy, commerce and industry Natasa Pilides presented a new scheme on Tuesday, May 18, to promote new business activity on the island. The scheme includes a budget of €30 ...

In the lead up to the parliamentary elections on May 30, the Cyprus Mail has asked the main political parties for their policies on a wide range of green issues. This ...

Cyprus’ Eurovision entrant Elena Tsangrinou on Tuesday night secured a spot in Saturday night’s final in Rotterdam. She was among 16 acts taking part in the first of two semi ...

Cyprus is expected to reassess the mandatory face masks in outdoor areas by June, in accordance with the process of the national vaccination plan, health ministry advisors told the Cyprus ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has written to US President Joe Biden concerning the Cyprus problem, highlighting the negative attitudes of the Turkish and the Turkish Cypriot teams. Anastasiades revealed the move ...

Efforts are underway for a meeting of the bicommunal technical committee on health to discuss the crossings, Greek Cypriot co-chair of the committee Leonidas Phylactou said on Tuesday. Phylactou told ...

A Diko advertisement alleging that the ruling Disy government is rife with corruption was pulled soon after it aired following backlash online. The ad, which aired on Tuesday but was ...

The health ministry announced one death from Covid-19 and 167 new cases on Tuesday, a positivity rate of 0.37 per cent. The results were from 45,598 tests. There are currently 148 patients in hospital ...

The autopsy of 36-year-old Lyubisha Ristoski who was stabbed to death on Sunday was carried out on Tuesday with the exact cause of death remaining inconclusive. Ristoski, from Bulgaria, was ...