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Thousands of children had the opportunity to attend lessons in person thanks to the Test to Stay policy, the health ministry said on Tuesday in response to secondary teachers’ criticism ...

High-tech cameras have been installed by Nicosia municipality along key urban arteries under the “Smart Cities” plan, which will record average vehicle speeds, pedestrian flows and “prevent vandalism”. Monday’s ...

On the day primary school teachers held a one-hour work stoppage because they were not satisfied with the government’s response to their demand for full-time replacement staff, nursing unions ...

The health ministry on Monday announced four more coronavirus deaths, including two people in their 40s, as 3,374 new infections were recorded. The deaths concerned a man, aged 40 and a woman ...

Lawmakers on Monday discussed how to tweak a government bill on VAT on houses so as to make it compatible with EU law. The matter relates to a bill tabled ...

The government said Monday it will use any safeguards afforded to it in the contract governing the LNG import terminal, sounding an upbeat note that any differences with the contractor ...

A man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison following the biggest ever drugs bust with links to Cyprus which saw 645 kilos of MDMA smuggled to Australia in Cypriot charcoal ...

The journalists’ union (ESK) has demanded that investigations of sexual harassment in media spaces be prompt and thorough. In a statement, the PSC called for a speedy investigation into the ...

Primary school and kindergarten teachers held a one-hour work stoppage on Monday morning, with union Poed giving authorities 15 days to work out satisfactory solutions to problems faced due to ongoing ...

Drivers can expect continued price rises at the pump, the Cyprus Consumers Association (CCA) said on Monday saying that inflation has surge. The group said that petrol 95 has notched a 0.308 ...

Police confirmed on Monday that the US university from which the former volunteerism commissioner claims to have graduated says it has no knowledge of his existence. Former commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki ...

More than two years after the contract signed to build a liquefied natural gas import terminal at the port of Vasilikos, the project is stuck at 4 per cent at most, ...

‘It’s madness to keep building when we have more than enough’ By Bejay Browne Peyia residents are up in arms over a number of big building projects earmarked for ...

The health ministry announced that four people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,214 had tested positive from 85,567 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.59 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Climate change is on our doorstep. There is an urgency to address this global concern and Cyprus cannot drag its feet on this any longer. No individual ...

And says we shouldn’t follow some fellow European countries yet in scrapping other Covid measures The SafePass is still effective in the age of Omicron, while the need for ...

Centre-right Diko will be the ruling party or a main part of a coalition government in order to bring about change after the presidential elections in 2023, leader Nicolas Papadopoulos said ...

The current project has a long, and likely tortuous, way to go This is further to my article in the Cyprus Mail last Sunday. Since then, the debate over the ...

From being a gang-rape victim, the complainant was interviewed as a suspect By Alper Ali Riza By a majority of two to one the Supreme Court of Cyprus quashed the ...

The audit office on Sunday hit back at reports that it was somehow culpable in the growing concern over delays to the construction of the LNG terminal in Vasiliko. The ...

VERY little attention has been given by the media to the government’s dictatorship law also known as the Infectious Diseases Law of 2021, which was tabled in the House last ...

The relaxation of the Covid measures we expected this week did not materialise, the higher number of cases, compared to the previous week, and relatively high positivity rate making the ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and that 2,568 had tested positive from 87,025 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.9 per cent. The death concerned ...

An independent body should be brought in to evaluate the health system, the patients’ association said on Saturday, a day after an audit-office report alleged illegalities and tax evasion within ...