Cyprus

The government rejected opposition criticism on Tuesday that privatisation of the port of Limassol had been a failure and unfavourable for the country, forcing companies and ships to leave. The ...

Migrant support NGO Kisa on Tuesday slammed a new bill with tougher criteria for citizenship as racist. “The ministry has prepared and submitted the bill without any consultation with stakeholders ...

Free rapid testing for employees and the public will operate in 51 sites nationwide on Wednesday, the health ministry announced. Following a decree obliging companies to test a certain number of ...

Friends and relatives of a young mother held a demonstration outside the family court in Paphos on Tuesday, demanding the suspension of a decision to return her underage son to ...

The Turkish Cypriot community will receive 75,000 rapid test kits from the EU, it was reported on Tuesday. According to Turkish Cypriot daily Halkin Sesi, 75,000 the rapid test kits will be ...

There is no indication as to when secondary school pupils excluded from Monday’s reopening will be able to return to the classroom, the secondary school teachers’ unions Oelmek and ...

The closure of the Cyprus grains commission after 67 years is inevitable because it is unviable, its chairman Kyriacos Kakouris told the House finance committee. With the exception of the 2010-2011 ...

A Turkish-made TV drama called ‘Once Upon a Time in Cyprus’ is set to focus on the events of 1963, a period when intercommunal strife intensified. The TV series – Bir Zamanlar ...

Geroskipou municipality on Tuesday harangued Interior Minister Nicos Nouris for singling them out in his drive to implement local government reform willy-nilly, saying their own ideas about merging with neighbouring ...

The department of electromechanical services on Tuesday warned the public it had identified a dangerous cable extension set in the market. According to the announcement, the WePLUG Model 66002, made in ...

Road works on the second section of Makarios Avenue will start on Monday, the Nicosia municipality has announced. From February 15 at 10am, Makarios Avenue, from Evagoras Avenue to Stasandrou Street, ...

Turkey is looking to buy a fourth drillship and has struck a preliminary deal, according to media reports. The drillship is the Bolette Dolphin, built in 2014 by South Korea’s ...

The Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine reduces but does not eliminate the risk of coronavirus infection, the health ministry said on Tuesday. In an announcement with instructions for the public concerning the ...

A woman was charged in Limassol after she refused to wear a mask on a bus and allegedly assaulted a police officer, reports said on Tuesday. Police intervened after receiving ...

The place and date of an informal five-party conference on Cyprus, which the UN Secretary-General intends to convene, remain uncertain, while Nicosia fears that Ankara is playing “games” with the ...

Landscaping works to improve the appearance of the Phinikoudes beach area were recently ordered by the Larnaca municipality and the local branch of the tourism development board (Etap). The project ...

An open-air cinema is due to open inside the buffer zone in Dherynia this spring, mayor Andros Karayiannis said. Designed by internationally known artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba, the project ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will travel to Israel for a one-day visit on Sunday following an invitation by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it was announced on Tuesday. According to a written ...

In 2020, three in four people in Cyprus logged in to online services using their username and password. The share of 74 per cent is just below the EU average of 75 per ...

Paphos police arrested a man in connection with a case of rape on Monday evening. A 29-year-old woman, a resident of the Paphos district, reported to police on Monday that ...

Police carried out 14,734 checks to curb the spread of the coronavirus in 24 hours from Monday until Tuesday, a new record number, and booked 103 individuals and three businesses. Most of those ...

Cyprus will have 7,200 AstraZeneca doses ready to administer from Tuesday and they will not be subject to age restrictions, the health ministry said. The AstraZeneca doses arrived on Monday. So ...

The value of transit trade conducted through the port of Limassol has declined sharply since 2017 when the harbour’s commercial operations were privatised, lawmakers heard on Monday. The drop in ...

The energy, commerce and industry ministry on Monday invited applications under its €50m incentives scheme to boost the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Co-financed by the EU and ...