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Capital Intelligence Ratings (CI Ratings or CI) said it has affirmed the Republic of Cyprus’ Long-Term Foreign Currency Rating (LT FCR) and Short-Term Foreign Currency Rating (ST FCR) at ‘BB+’ ...

Limassol district court remanded a 44-year-old father for four days on Saturday for giving drugs to his 11-year-old son. The man was arrested following a visit by the social welfare ...

Ruling Disy announced on Saturday it would distribute one million trees in the next three years to plant the “seeds of hope” for a united Cyprus. In his statements after ...

Coronavirus is “the only illness” where patients lack human contact and pass way alone, the medical director of Famagusta reference hospital for coronavirus Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Saturday. “These people [...

More than 70 per cent of vaccination appointments were booked an hour after they became available for people aged 66 and older, the health ministry said on Saturday. Some 8,934 appointments were made ...

Police fined 169 people and eight establishments for violations of Covid measures during a total of 12,276 checks in the last 24 hours islandwide. In Nicosia there were 3,285 checks and 32 people were booked. ...

A few days after restaurants, bars and coffee shops re-opened after 3 months of lockdown – despite Covid cases still being quite high – we spoke to a selection of bar/restaurant owners ...

Most coronavirus patients admitted to Famagusta Hospital the past fortnight have required treatment for about seven to eight days, hospital chief Amalia Hadjiyianni has said. “The past 15 days, most cases ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos has briefed community leaders in the Solea area about the upcoming construction of a motorway between Astromeritis and Evrychou. This project is something local communities have ...

“If you look at contemporary mathematics, it’s mostly hidden,” says Ioanna Georgiou. “It’s buried deep in aspects of programming and engineering, so sophisticated that only specialists in their ...

Wizz Air is to introduce 122 new routes in spring and summer of this year. The new routes to and from Cyprus include: Larnaca-Cardiff, Larnaca-Tel Aviv, Larnaca-Birmingham, Larnaca-Kharkiv and Larnaca-Oslo Gardermoen, ...

The uprooting of bushes from a beach in the Baths of Aphrodite area was to give lifeguards better visibility of the sea, Neo Chorio community leader Andreas Christodoulou said on ...

By Antigoni Pitta and Gina Agapiou The University of Cyprus maritime archaeological research laboratory is collaborating with the antiquities department and the department of fisheries and marine research on the ...

Political parties crossed swords on Friday at the House plenum on the Cyprus problem and on what the Greek Cypriot side’s stand ought to be at next month’s ...

The health ministry announced no deaths and 364 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday. As there were no deaths, the total number remains 241, of whom 160 were men and 81 women, with an ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and European Union chiefs discussed eastern Mediterranean tensions and Turkey-EU ties in a video call on Friday, ahead of an EU summit due to address fraught ...

Almost 9,000 vaccination appointments for those aged 66 and older will be made available over the weekend, the health ministry announced on Friday. Some 8,934 appointments will be made available though the online ...

The embattled management of Cypra slaughterhouse denied Friday they had anything to do with the demise of a state facility and receiving preferential treatment along the way. In a statement, ...

Around 7,000 people who were affected by the postponement of AstraZeneca vaccinations will be called on Monday and Tuesday to rebook their appointments, it was announced on Friday. According to acting ...

The health ministry announced that a total of 64 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday stressed the important role the EU can play in during the informal conference on the Cyprus issue that will take place next month in Geneva. ...

The interior ministry sought to clarify on Friday that the Kouklia community leader had not been sacked, as media reported the previous day, but he has been sidelined in a ...

The Employers and Industrialists Federation (Oev) and the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) have called on people in Cyprus to refrain from staging mass protests in the coming ...

On March 16, details of thousands of companies domiciled on the island will be collected to be entered in a so-called Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) register – according to standards set by ...