Cyprus

The health ministry announced 53 test sites will operate on Friday for the free Covid-19 rapid testing of employees and the public. Testing is part of the health ministry’s triptych ...

Social distancing measures are likely to remain into the summer, a member of the government coronavirus advisory team said in an interview on Thursday morning. Addressing concerns over coronavirus variants, ...

Police on Thursday had in custody a man suspected of stabbing his wife and son to death and injuring his second son earlier in the day at their home in ...

Large investment projects and real estate developers called on the government on Thursday to make changes to the permanent residency programme for third country nationals to help attract more investors ...

Total government employment in January rose by 440 persons or 0.8 per cent year on year due to the hiring of temporary employees, data released by the Statistical Service of Cyprus (Cystat) ...

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said on Wednesday that Varosha cannot remain a ruin forever and that Turkey can transform it into “the pearl of Cyprus” once again. Speaking to ...

The lack of a green point in Dherynia is a “major problem” for the municipality, which spends more than €20,000 annually to manage garden and bulky waste, it said on Thursday. “...

The Cyprus Environmental Movement on Thursday called on the government to promote the installation of rainwater collection systems from roofs, saying we have to do everything possible so not a ...

A 79-year-old woman is the latest coronavirus-linked death in the north, as 40,000 more vaccines were delivered from Turkey. Turkish Cypriot authorities announced on Thursday that the woman had been in ...

The recycled water lakes of the Larnaca sewerage board located in Meneou have been transformed into a wetland where every year thousands of migratory birds find refuge, manager of the ...

Eleven drivers have tested positive for drugs while driving in a week, and many of whom also committed various other traffic offences. The most serious case, between February 3 and 11, appears ...

Authorities issued a dust warning on Thursday and urged vulnerable groups to avoid open spaces. The highest dust levels were recorded in Nicosia and Limassol which are double the permitted ...

Paphos police are looking for a man in connection with a burglary committed on Wednesday. A 61-year-old man reported to police that his apartment was broken into and various coins ...

While carrying out 14,170 checks to prevent the coronavirus from spreading, police booked 132 individuals in 24 hours from Wednesday until Thursday. In Nicosia, 3,209 checks were conducted, in Limassol 4,599, in Larnaca 1,559, in Paphos 1,398, ...

The Paphos archaeological museum has finally opened its doors to the public after lengthy delays in upgrading work and is well worth a visit staff say. The museum has had ...

President Nicos Anastasiades asked for a study into staffing the government’s internal audit departments with trained personnel to improve the effectiveness of risk management procedures, it was announced on ...

The health ministry announced testing locations for Thursday, February 11. Limassol: Church of Ayios Ioannis Eleimonos, Limassol 8.30 a.m.-5.30 p.m, TEPAK Building Andreas Themistocleous, Agia Zoni (Old Limassol Land ...

Three people have died from Covid-19 and 113 new cases have been detected from 24,780 tests, a positivity rate of 0.46 per cent, the health ministry said on Wednesday. The number of people ...

By Stephanie Nebehay, Kate Kelland and John Miller AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective and should be deployed widely, including in countries where the South African variant of ...

Work is underway for the removal of an estimated 250 tonnes of rubbish dumped in the Pedieos riverbed, it was announced on Wednesday. The agriculture ministry said that crews of the ...

Tempers flared at the House ethics committee after members of a defunct watchdog set up to clean the island’s sports, mainly football, blamed its outgoing chairman of its demise. ...

The debate over the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the over 65s took an unexpected turn on Wednesday when the Cyprus Medical Association (Cyma) appeared to do a U-turn, ...

The first Russian vaccine against Covid-19, Sputnik V has been approved so far in 23 countries and it is expected that the EU will examine its application this month, Russian ambassador ...

Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis on Wednesday said police followed standard procedure while handling her complaint last December against a parody account on Twitter, which had targeted her father. The minister ...