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To fully reap the benefits of casinos, Cyprus needs an effective mechanism that will ensure safe and responsible gambling, deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios said on Saturday. The minister’...

The neonatal intensive care unit at Makarios children’s hospital is at serious risk of overcrowding because of staff shortages, nurses’ union Pasyno warned on Saturday. In a statement, the ...

Cyprus on Saturday issued an anti-Navtex following Turkey`s latest announcement that the seismic ship Oruc Reis would be conducting research in the Eastern Mediterranean until December 16. The Cyprus News ...

The council of ministers has approved a three-year plan to tackle and prevent child sexual abuse and harassment as parents called for measures following complaints against teachers that emerged earlier ...

One of the policy objectives over the next four years, approved by the 29th congress of the Sek trade unions federation, which was completed on Thursday, was the “full restoration ...

No deaths from Covid were reported on Friday, as 144 new infections were detected in the past 24 hours from 55, 413 tests, positivity rate of 0.26 per cent. The health ministry said 20 people out ...

The reopening of the fenced area of Varosha for settlement is in line with international law and the north’s position on a two-state solution, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ...

Firefighters managed to bring a wildfire in Paphos, between the village of Nata and Kelokedara, under control on Friday afternoon, the fire service said. According to fire service spokesman Andreas ...

Turkey will never allow the research vessel Nautical Geo resume its operations off Cyprus and Crete, the country’s defence minister said claiming these areas were under Turkish jurisdiction. Turkey’...

Cabinet on Friday approved some easing of coronavirus measures allowing more people at football matches and in theatres, cinemas, restaurants, and events. Given the possibility of seasonal viruses in tandem ...

Former Elam MP Andreas Themistocleous on Friday suggested he was not planning on giving up his parliamentary seat after being ousted by the far-right party for violating its code of ...

President Nicos Anastasiades appealed to the public to get vaccinated on Friday as he received his third dose at the State Fair site in Nicosia. He called on the unvaccinated ...

The improved epidemiological situation recorded in Cyprus in recent days has resulted in the ECDC moving the country out of the red zone and into orange. The European Centre for ...

The English School staff union (ESSA) chair’s potential dismissal still loomed on Thursday as teachers continued their indefinite strike, amid concerns from parents, retired staff and school graduates over ...

Despite strikes and threat of strikes being very common in the public sector, they are unheard of at private schools. This was why Wednesday’s announcement of an indefinite strike ...

Britain will scrap tough COVID-19 quarantine requirements for 47 destinations including South Africa on Monday and make it easier for people to arrive from countries including India, Brazil and Turkey in ...

Authorities on Thursday announced no new fatalities from Covid-19, while testing tracked 131 new positives from a total of 56,507 samples. As such, the death toll since March 2020 remains at 557. In hospitals, 60 ...

The health ministry announced that people over 70 would be eligible for a Covid vaccine booster shot starting Friday. A ministry statement said that people over 70 who have received their second ...

The cabinet is expected to approve an ease of Covid restrictions on Friday, including allowing unvaccinated people into sporting events, cinemas, and theatres but no changes in protective mask mandates, ...

The health services organisation (Okypy)’s proposal to allocate 20 per cent of revenues stemming from potential state hospital’s afternoon operations to state doctors is now being evaluated by doctors’ ...

Lawyers in Cyprus expressed bewilderment on Thursday over a Norwegian court’s acquittal of a man who had abducted his four-year-old daughter in 2017 outside her kindergarten in Nicosia on the ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides has appointed three independent investigators to reopen the case of the death of a 26-year-old soldier in 2005, which appears to have been the result of foul play. ...

Nicosia and Warsaw on Thursday signed a number of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for cooperation in various fields, during the first day of an official visit here of Polish President ...

Police on Thursday confirmed they are investigating a mother and her partner accused of sexually abusing and exploiting three of her daughters, but said it is too early to confirm ...