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The health ministry on Thursday revised its Covid-19 death tally, adding to the count nine more people who had not been included at the time of death. The addition of ...

The House plenum on Thursday voted for the postponement of local government elections as part of the sector’s reform. The elections were to have taken place in December. Postponement ...

Women’s organisations held a protest outside the Supreme Court on Thursday morning in solidarity with a British woman who had convicted of lying about being gang raped by Israeli ...

Supermarkets on Thursday hit out against the SafePass requirement in food stores which they said has only caused conflict with members of the public. In a letter to the health ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its decision on whether to uphold or remove the conviction of a young British woman who was handed a suspended four-month prison sentence last ...

Labour unions have warned that a major demographic shift due to ageing populations in the EU requires the restructuring of pensions. At a European conference on Thursday, the Democratic Labour ...

With only a few months before it opens its doors, the CYCLOPS (Cyprus Centre for Land, Open Seas and Port Security) currently under construction in Larnaca, aims to become a ...

The ministry of transport on Wednesday said a programme to offer incentives to passenger airlines was a success as Cyprus showed one of the smallest reductions in Europe in terms ...

Finally someone saw sense. On Wednesday the cabinet decided to drop a disciplinary hearing against headteacher Giorgos Gavriel for his irreverent works that poke fun at Church and State after ...

The health ministry announced one death and 230 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday. A 64-year-old woman passed away after being treated in the ICU at Nicosia hospital, raising total deaths ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides and Justice Minister Stephie Drakou appealed to MPs for the umpteenth time on Wednesday to pass vital justice reforms, despite the supreme court’s opposition to certain ...

Government departments and the power company (EAC) expect to finalise a discounted rate on electricity bills in the next few days, Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said on Wednesday. The minister ...

Any proposals or ideas on the Cyprus problem should not stray from the framework of the UN Security Council resolutions, President Nicos Anastasiades told UK High Commissioner Stephen Lillie on ...

Cabinet on Wednesday announced that the disciplinary procedure against controversial public school headteacher and artist Giorgos Gavriel will be dropped, amidst wide condemnation of the way the government handled the ...

Women’s organisations will hold a protest outside the Supreme Court on Thursday in solidarity with the appeal of a British woman who was convicted of lying about being gang ...

Cyprus-based troops from the Second Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment have been reflecting on the part they played in the evacuation of more than 12,000 British nationals and entitled Afghans out of ...

By Charalambos Theopemptou The EU refers to its ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy as being at the heart of its Green Deal and it aims to achieve a fair, healthy and ...

From Monday all children were back at school and it took only 24 hours for one of our celebrity epidemiologists to step up the fear-mongering, which had been toned down in ...

Amid complaints from parents, Nicosia and Larnaca bus operator Cyprus Public Transport (CPT) on Tuesday assured that inconveniences with issuing and renewing student bus passes are just a one-off and ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 and that 126 people tested positive on Tuesday. But it said not all data for tests taken privately had been collected so the ...

The House selection committee unanimously decided on Monday there was no legal reason justifying the exclusion of an MP from any parliamentary committee, after Edek chairman Marinos Sizopoulos refused to ...

The House commerce committee on Tuesday discussed credit card charges ahead of a new decree mandating all businesses accept card payments, which is due to come into effect this coming ...

The parliamentary committee on standards unanimously agreed on Tuesday that far-right Elam MP Andreas Themistokleous had a case to answer after he was accused of verbally abusing a Green party ...

President Nicos Anastasiades suggested more effective procedures to be put in place at the education ministry after teachers were told to “tear out” a page from a textbook with a ...