Cyprus

The health ministry announced one death and 115 new cases on Sunday from 40,974 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.28 per cent. The death concerned a man aged 94 with underlying ...

The health ministry announced 59 test locations for Monday for employees returning to work, and for the general public as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (14 points) Church of Agios Ioannis ...

Two people were being treated in hospital on Sunday after an accident on a motocross track in Makounda village, Paphos. According to police, a 14-year-old teen who was training with ...

Akel leader Andros Kyprianou on Sunday branded Greece’s former Foreign Minister Nicos Kotzias a liar, over claims the latter made in an interview published on Sunday, that eventually had ...

Reporters from Germany’s popular Bild newspaper have reportedly been camped outside of EU Health Commissioner’s Stella Kyriakides’ Nicosia home, it emerged on Sunday. According to Sigmalive, the journalists ...

Lack of flights, surge in online orders and staff shortages equal unprecedented postal delays The coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed the postal services as a surge in online orders from abroad ...

Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to arrive to Nicosia on Monday for a working visit. According to a press release by the Presidency, Mitsotakis will have a tête-à...

Cyprus enters on Monday the second phase of covid measures relaxations with the reopening of schools for elementary students and third graders of high schools as well as of all ...

Some 60,000 students are returning to government schools on Monday, as the next phase of relaxed measures come into force, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said in an interview on Sunday. A ...

Growing calls to change street names in Turkish Cypriot quarter of Larnaca Names are notoriously contested territories whenever politics and history enter the mix. The Cyprus problem is no exception, ...

Thousands of people working in the cultural sector are being supported by the government through an additional €4m approved by cabinet earlier this week, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said in ...

Cyprus ranks 9th across the EU in relation to the gender pay gap, Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Sunday noting that although there has been much improvement, there is ...

Questions began being asked as to how the EU – a group of some of the world’s richest and most developed countries – could be left so far behind The EU’...

Two drunk drivers were arrested for and fined for being out past curfew, police said on Sunday. One man, aged 27 was driving on the Nicosia – Limassol highway at around 11:20pm ...

Police reported 210 citizens and the owners of four establishments after carrying out a total of 12,773 checks islandwide for violating Covid-19 measures. A police spokesperson told the Cyprus News Agency that ...

Non-profit organisations will hold a protest march against corruption and state authoritarianism on February 13 in Nicosia, despite a ban on protests during the pandemic, it emerged on Friday. In a ...

Economy is the ‘worst it’s been since 1974’ Every sector of the economy has been dealt a big blow by the pandemic, but with tourist arrivals down by 85 per cent ...

The health ministry announced one death and 132 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday from 36,863 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.36 per cent and total positives to date of 31,644. ...

The Nicosia municipal council on Saturday called for the immediate restoration of the listed buildings demolished by the Archbishopric earlier this week. Archbishop Chrysostomos must also deposit a money guarantee ...

The health ministry increased the rapid test sites to 62 nationwide for Sunday considering the mandatory Covid-19 test for those returning to work next week. With the reopening of the retail ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides has launched an awareness campaign to report sexual harassment in the workplace. The campaign includes a recorded message with the results of a recent survey carried out ...

The overdue Larnaca municipal parking with 80 parking spaces will be ready in three months, while the municipal market will be completed in the summer, the district’s mayor Andreas Vyras ...

Cyprus’ epidemiological situation has improved but the relaxation of measures is likely to increase the number of Covid cases, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou warned on Saturday. He was referring to ...

Bilateral ties, EU issues and the Cyprus problem were on the agenda of the consultations the Slovenian FM Anže Logar in Nicosia with his counterpart Nikos Christodoulides. The Slovenian ...