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By Achilleas Demetriades At the end of every year each one of us reflects on the year ahead and sets out our goals regarding what we would like to achieve ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recommends renewal of Unficyp’s mandate for another six months, as he censured the government over its treatment of asylum seekers, emphasising the importance of ...

We enter another year of uncertainty and unpredictability today. After two years shaped by the sole government objective of controlling the spread of Covid-19 in its mutating forms, only a ...

HAPPY new year and I sincerely wish your hangover is manageable. I do not remember the last time the Coffeeshop was open on New Year’s Day, which caused a ...

The health ministry announced that two people had died of Covid-19 and that a record 5,048 had tested positive from, another record, 169,476 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.98 per ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has expressed optimism that the new year ahead will be one of “creativity and hope”. In his televised address for the New Year, the president referred to ...

Rainfall in December has by far exceeded the average precipitation for the month, head of the meteorological department Kleanthis Nicolaides said on Friday. According to Nicolaides rainfall precipitation may have ...

The possibility of securing a negotiated settlement in Cyprus has continued to fall from an already low level, and without decisive action, the continuing dynamics in and around Cyprus could ...

All regions in Western Europe are now in the deep red category, according to the latest epidemiological map on the spread of Covid-19 by the European Centre for Disease Prevention ...

From Saturday, the grace period for people caught on traffic cameras will be over and fines will be issued for offenders. Police remind the public that, as of January 1, the ...

The despair of Turkish Cypriots, over the state of the north’s economy is understandable. They are suffering the devastating effects of President Tayyip Erdogan’s unorthodox economic policies that ...

Heavy rains lashed down at the island on Thursday, particularly in the Nicosia district, as the fire department and police responded to dozens of calls for assistance on the roads ...

Authorities on Thursday announced one more death attributed to Covid-19, while testing yielded a new record of 3,851 positives, continuing the trend of the past few days. The latest fatality was ...

Around 70 per cent of Europeans lived in homes they owned in 2020 while the rest lived in rented housing, according to a Eurostat study published on Thursday. The numbers for Cyprus, 68.6 ...

The government’s new measures, introduced in a bid to contain the spread of Covid 19, were targeted, but did not deliberately intend to upset society or the economy, coronavirus advisory ...

The attorney-general filed appeals Thursday against a recent criminal court decision, which acquitted all defendants of fraud charges relating to loans secured from the Strovolos cooperative bank. In a tweet, ...

Around 100 Turkish Cypriots were interviewed this week for jobs in the hotel industry, while procedures will continue next year for the construction sector, a Sek trade union representative said on ...

Nightclub owners on Thursday said they have been unfairly targeted by the health ministry’s latest measures, announced amid a surge in cases that has put officials on edge. Cases ...

The government mandated PCR tests for travellers prior to their trip after some 70 people with Covid symptoms had boarded flights to Cyprus, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said on Thursday. “Unfortunately, ...

A full-time medical lab professional and two additional radiologists will be employed at Polis Chrysochous hospital in March, allowing the two departments to operate on a 24-hour basis. This was ...

Banks have come under pressure from different groups over their plans to increase charges in the new year. The Consumers’ Association, the bank borrowers’ protection group Syprodat, trade unions and ...

Rapid tests not older than 24 hours will be mandatory for attending weddings and other such events, while dancing is banned, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said on Wednesday after an emergency ...

Five deaths and a record 3,002 new infections from coronavirus were announced on Wednesday. The five deaths were three women aged 74, 77 and 94 and two men aged 81 and 87. This brings the number ...

The met office has issued a yellow alert, warning of heavy rainfall on Thursday and Friday. The alert comes into force at 5.00 am on Thursday until 4.00 pm on Friday, New ...