Cyprus

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 ...

Two deaths from coronavirus and 105 new cases were announced on Monday. The two deaths were two men, aged 93 and 89. Both had underlying health conditions. The total number of deaths from ...

A proposal has been put forth to hire unemployed people to boost those inspecting premises to ensure that coronavirus protocols are being adhered to. The announcement was made on Monday ...

Tuesday’s rapid test locations have been announced by the health ministry, with a table provided below, available to the general public and workers free of charge. The ministry emphasised ...

Applications for a €1500 one-off grant to support people working in the arts affected by the pandemic can be submitted online from today, through to 2.00 pm on February 18 the cultural services ...

The chairman of the sports ethics committee said on Monday he did not believe politicians and club officials were serious about tackling corruption in football, which seems to be rife ...

Ruling Disy MP Averof Neophytou on Monday withdrew bills intended to provide tax relief to borrowers with non-performing loans, after it emerged that the proposals would achieve the opposite of ...

A letter addressed to the attorney-general George Savvides on Monday called for the immediate prosecution of Archbishop Chrysostomos over the demolition of four listed houses last week. Signed by 62 professionals ...

Tourism-dependent Greece and Cyprus discussed requesting vaccination certificates from travellers arriving in the two countries, Greek Prime Minister Kyriacos Mitsotakis said on Monday, following a meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades ...

The man accused of sexual abuse by sports shooter Andri Eleftheriou gave a statement to the police on Monday, more than two weeks after the complaint was filed. His two-hour ...

Appointments for coronavirus vaccinations will be available for people aged 79 and over as from Tuesday, February 9, the health ministry said on Monday as it unveiled phase three of its national ...

Sex education is critical to protecting children from sexual abuse and must be offered at all levels of the education system, the House human rights committee underlined on Monday. The ...