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The investigation into the forged academic qualification of the volunteerism commissioner was initiated in April, the auditor-general’s office said on Friday after the president accused the audit chief of ...

The health ministry announced three deaths and another 73 positives for Covid-19 on Friday from 62,125 PCR and rapid tests with a positivity rate of 0.12 per cent. The deaths concerned two men ...

Police are investigating the theft of €20,000 from a parked vehicle in Limassol on Friday. Limassol CID received a complaint from the owner of the car, a 51-year-old man, according to ...

The Cyprus problem, corruption and possible protest votes were the focus of political parties on Friday in their final messages before Sunday’s parliamentary elections. With the election campaign period ...

A total of €700,000 in grants were presented on Friday by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris and Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis to 18 private companies operating in areas adjacent to Nicosia’s Green ...

The personal data commissioner on Friday said that her office has received a very small number of complaints from members of the public regarding personal data breaches from parliamentary candidates ...

Renowned writer and politician Rina Katselli passed away on Friday at the age of 83, the Kyrenia municipality announced in a post on Facebook. Katselli is considered one of the most ...

The health ministry announced a total of 84 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

A delegation representing the Cyprus Hotel Association (Pasyxe) on Friday asked the British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie to move the island to the UK’s green list of tourist destinations ...

Chief Returning Officer Dr Costas Constantinou on Friday called on people to vote, pointing out that abstaining was tantamount to avoiding taking responsibility and assigning their rights to those who ...

The next informal meeting on the Cyprus problem is expected to take place in September or October, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Friday. According to Kibris Postasi newspaper, the Greek ...

Police on Friday announced they seized around 600,000 rapid tests as part of investigations relating to the alleged document forgery case unveiled earlier in the week. This came after a company ...

Police booked 21,000 people for speeding in the last two months, traffic police data published on Friday showed. The data, covering the period between March 24 and May 24, showed that speed was ...

People aged under 50 who have booked an AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine are able to change it, the health minister said on Friday. Speaking to the CyBC, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said ...

To boost tourism to specific groups Larnaca municipality and the Larnaca tourist board plan on grouping the city’s tourist attractions into clusters, starting with the Art Workshops Neighbourhood, they ...

Tenders were invited on Friday for the construction of a new mental health centre in Nicosia, part of the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, the transport ministry said. The ...

Cyprus’ epidemiological picture has continued its steady and dramatic improvement, with major reductions across the main criteria – from hospitalisations, cases, deaths and other indicators. In the last 14 days, the cumulative ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said the government will continue to work to secure the future of the young people of Cyprus. “I have realised how much more I owe to young ...

Campaigning for the parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday draws to a close on Friday night as government officials hand over the ballot boxes and 600,000 ballots to officers in ...

Police arrested a 20-year-old early on Friday for speeding on the Limassol-Nicosia motorway. The man was caught driving at 200km per hour, in an area where 100km per hour is ...

Police fined 20 people after 4,234 checks for the implementation of coronavirus measures in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Friday. Between 6am on Thursday and 6am on Friday, police fined ...

Cyprus Small- to Medium-sized businesses must undergo a transformation in order to survive – they need to jettison past ways of doing business and adopt those that are right for today. ...

Turkish Cypriot Ersin Tatar has sent a letter to the UN Secretary General laying out his side’s approach to the Cyprus issue and how he sees the process going ...

Sparks continued flying on Thursday over the resignation of Volunteerism Commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki, the affair bleeding into the last stretch of the election campaign showmanship, as more details came to ...