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It is good that the House Ethics Committee has taken up the weakness of the authorities in combating human trafficking. The committee met on Monday to look at the failings ...

Health minister Michalis Hadjipantelas has given the state health services organisation (Okypy) ten days to smooth out problems with emergency services on weekends following complaints from patients. On Sunday, the ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced two deaths from Covid-19 and 206 people positive test results for the virus. There are 141 Covid-19 patients receiving hospital treatment of whom 39 are in serious ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday reviewed various ways in which electricity bills might be reduced, including by scrapping the levying of VAT in certain cases but it remained unclear whether their proposals ...

The current uptick in economic activity, following the doldrums of 2020 due to coronavirus-related closures, appears largely driven by high government spending that is projected to push public debt to record ...

The Council of Ministers decided on Tuesday that non-urgent operations and hospital admissions will resume from September 8 thanks to the improving epidemiological outlook, following a request from Health Minister Michalis ...

The supreme court has granted four applicants permission to file an appeal against the arrest warrants used by the police to detain them in connection with an attack against the ...

The government on Tuesday expressed hope that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will exert pressure on the Turkish Cypriot side for a joint meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades in New York. ...

Yet another school year amid the Covid pandemic kicked off on Tuesday with minor problems and old ‘customs’ involving flares and firecrackers. Over 45,000 pupils returned to school on Tuesday under ...

A 43-year-old detainee who escaped after being transferred to the Paphos hospital when he complained of feeling unwell, has been re-arrested after a car chase involving a stolen taxi on ...

By Paul Lambis and Jonathan Shkurko A public outcry forced the Paphos municipality to abandon plans to paint historic neoclassical buildings in the centre of town a dull grey as ...

After all the noise made about corruption, which was highlighted by the Al Jazeera investigation into golden passports, the government announced a series of plans to combat it. There is, ...

The 2019 law to prosecute customers of human trafficking victims was not being implemented said the president of the House human rights committee, Irini Charalambidou on Monday. “Trafficking of human beings ...

The health ministry on Monday announced one death and 223 new coronavirus cases, after 74,092 PCR and rapid tests, with a positivity rate of 0.30 per cent. A 55-year-old man who died on ...

Main opposition party Akel on Monday urged the government to quickly intervene to shield the public from rising prices in electricity as well as in essential goods, noting that thousands ...

The successful implementation of the €1.3bn Recovery and Resilience Scheme is very important to public finances and the island’s growth prospects, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Monday, as ...

Over 45,000 students at state secondary school are set to return to school on Tuesday under strict measures to combat Covid-19, most notably the requirement of a SafePass for those aged 12 ...

Greece on Monday confirmed that former Cypriot European humanitarian aid and crisis management commissioner Christos Stylianides will head the new climate crisis and civil protection ministry. He will receive honourary ...

A 67-year-old man pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges that he had started a huge fire in Arakapas in July that killed four men and destroyed some 55 square kilometres ...

The technical committee that is working on the preparations for a joint gas pipeline project between Cyprus and Egypt will convene on September 15, the office of the Minister of Energy, ...

The doors of an iconostasis in an occupied Church were reported as having returned home last week. They were the first looted item to be returned to the island from ...

Two deaths and 147 new coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday by the health ministry. The deaths concern a 52-year-old man and an 83-year-old woman. The number of people who have ...

By Evie Andreou If we are to believe traditional weather forecasters, it will be pouring down this winter as per their predictions based on the first days of August. Experts, ...

Uninvited hitchhicker from the Suez is now found around the island By Nick Theodoulou An invasive species of mildly poisonous sea urchin with longer spines than those endemic to Cyprus ...