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By Martin Clark After this wet winter, it has finally been warming up here in Cyprus and this is the signal for wildflowers to begin blooming. Cyprus is famous for ...

Cyprus averages 149 car thefts per 100,000 people each year or four a day, confused.com – a UK digital marketplace for insurance, has reported citing Eurostat data. The platform conducted a study ...

The auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides often censures ministers publicly for not following correct procedures or overstepping the boundaries of their authority. But what happens when he does the same? Can anyone ...

The government wants an exhumation to be carried out at a landfill in occupied Dikomo, at a mass-grave site where it’s thought the remains of dozens of missing Greek ...

The health ministry announced two Covid-19 deaths and 1,692 infections on Tuesday evening, adding that 31 patients with the virus are in serious condition. The deaths are of two women, aged 81 and 88, ...

Cypriot grape production has collapsed by 93 per cent over the last 30 years, as the island has shifted from being a grape exporter to an importer. MPs were presented with the ...

Disappointment and discontent were expressed by the 15-year-old who addressed a conference on Monday, organised to present a report on the impact of the pandemic measures on children, an initiative ...

Time is running out and the issue of missing persons in Cyprus must be depoliticised, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances stated in its latest report. The experts, who visited ...

The government could consider subsidising Cypriot families to host Ukrainian refugees, currently being offered accommodation at local hotels, Disy president Averof Neophytou suggested on Tuesday. He was speaking to reporters ...

A senior UN official held talks with President Nicos Anastasiades in Nicosia on Tuesday, telling reporters that the world body remains committed to supporting efforts for a Cyprus settlement. For ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos called the Russian invasion of Ukraine “unjustified” and said the scenes the world witnesses every day cannot be explained in any way. Speaking to state broadcaster CyBC on ...

The EuroAsia Interconnector can be a gamechanger for energy security and the provision of energy to European markets and beyond, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Monday. She was speaking ...

Nothing illustrates better the deference extended to unions by the politicians than the president’s traditional address of the annual congress of the public employees’ union Pasydy, in the presence ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on Monday stressed the importance of a universal application of sanctions against Russia for the invasion of Ukraine, making specific reference to Turkey. He was addressing ...

The House human rights committee on Monday proposed the establishment of a sex education programme across all levels of state education. The issue was discussed in the presence of Education ...

The House finance committee on Monday decided to ‘cross’, or put on hold, some €33 million in funds earmarked for the purchase of two buildings that will house various government services. ...

The health ministry announced three deaths and 2,254 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday. The new deaths were of two women aged 82 and 91, and a man aged 84, bringing the total death ...

Municipalities are indebted to the tune of some €220 million – money which the central government has undertaken to repay. According to the state treasury’s fiscal report for 2021, at the end ...

Modernisation, efficiency, and meritocracy were identified by the president as the key successes in the civil service in an address on Monday to the general meeting of Pasydy, their main ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday said he would not hear suggestions from those who want to create difficulties within the national health scheme Gesy. “There will not be any changes ...

Easing of coronavirus restrictions takes effect on Monday morning, including abolition of the mandatory requirement for outdoor face mask use, while SafePasses are no longer needed for the workplace, with ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos estimates that Cyprus will see 50 per cent more passenger traffic this year compared with 2021. “I want to send the message that although we expect to lose ...

French leader Emmanuel Macron and challenger Marine Le Pen qualified on Sunday for what promises to be a very tightly fought presidential election runoff on April 24, pitting a pro-European economic ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that 1,459 had tested positive from 57,728 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.53 per cent. The deaths concerned ...