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Parents angered over ministry’s refusal to accept them despite being on its own approved list Rapid saliva tests for coronavirus, an alternative to nasal rapid and PCR tests, have ...

The effect of illegal carnival gatherings last weekend and the relaxations of measures last Tuesday will start to be seen by the epidemiological team as of this coming Tuesday, a ...

EU Turkish relations will be discussed by the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday, for which Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides will depart later on Sunday. The Council will ...

Police were on Sunday continuing their search for the people who cut part of the barbed wire that has been put along a section of the buffer zone to prevent ...

Eight businesses and 118 people were charged for violating coronavirus decrees in the 24 hours up to 6am on Sunday. The businesses were in Limassol, Nicosia, Larnaca and Famagusta. Two were charged ...

All the PCR tests but one on 26 people at the Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos taken have come back negative. The tests were taken after 26 out of 75 soldiers at ...

For the first time, a comprehensive effort is underway to make the island a technology hub Cyprus is framing a comprehensive, holistic policy to compete as a technology hub, Invest ...

Less than two years before the government’s proposed Akamas national park sustainable plan is due to be implemented, environmentalists and landowners in the area remain as deeply divided as ...

Water has been discovered during pilot drilling in Stavrovouni with a new high-tech land drilling rig, the agriculture ministry said on Friday. The discovery was part of the testing of ...

The health ministry announced one death and 407 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday from 53,774 PCR and rapid tests, yielding a positivity rate of 0.7 per cent. The death concerned a man ...

Rapid test sampling units for Sunday are as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (18 points) Church of Agios Ioannis Eleimonos, Limassol 9.30 a.m.-7.30 p.m. TEPAK Building “Andreas Themistokleous”, ...

A missing diver was rescued by helicopter on Saturday afternoon by a team from the Larnaca joint rescue coordination centre (JRCC). According to the JRCC, they received information about a ...

The exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey and the negotiations for the solution of the Cyprus issue “must reach a satisfactory conclusion and cannot go on endlessly – time is not ...

Gymnasiums could reopen if Covid protocols are implemented but how soon that may be has not yet been decided, an adviser to the government told secondary school union Oelmek, it ...

Cyprus will fail to manage the migration flow to the island unless the EU adopts a “coordinated, fair and balanced” policy which would be tailored to its member states, Interior ...

More Nicosia-based volunteers will clean-up Pedieos riverbed for the third week in a row on Sunday. Four mattresses and a full bath set including a toilet, a sink and a ...

Cyprus has sent anti-venom medication to Greece to treat the Cypriot man who was bitten by an Indian cobra that he kept as a pet along with other reptiles in ...

The education ministry was slammed on Saturday for firing a contract teacher after they refused to undergo the mandatory weekly rapid test for coronavirus. In a statement denouncing the ministry’...

Capital Intelligence Ratings (CI Ratings or CI) said it has affirmed the Republic of Cyprus’ Long-Term Foreign Currency Rating (LT FCR) and Short-Term Foreign Currency Rating (ST FCR) at ‘BB+’ ...

Limassol district court remanded a 44-year-old father for four days on Saturday for giving drugs to his 11-year-old son. The man was arrested following a visit by the social welfare ...

Ruling Disy announced on Saturday it would distribute one million trees in the next three years to plant the “seeds of hope” for a united Cyprus. In his statements after ...

Coronavirus is “the only illness” where patients lack human contact and pass way alone, the medical director of Famagusta reference hospital for coronavirus Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Saturday. “These people [...

More than 70 per cent of vaccination appointments were booked an hour after they became available for people aged 66 and older, the health ministry said on Saturday. Some 8,934 appointments were made ...

Police fined 169 people and eight establishments for violations of Covid measures during a total of 12,276 checks in the last 24 hours islandwide. In Nicosia there were 3,285 checks and 32 people were booked. ...