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Efforts to open up the electricity market have been made unsuccessfully for years. Deadlines have been regularly missed while the top management of the Electricity Authority have been very adept ...

The health ministry announced the death of a 56-year-old woman from Covid-19 on Wednesday, as infections reached a record high of 1,120 after 62,656 tests, a positivity rate of 1.79 per cent. The ...

Air raid sirens will sound at 8.20am on Thursday to mark the start of the coup 47 years ago to overthrow president Makarios. Church services for those killed during the coup ...

The government is drafting a bill that would introduce a small deposit return fee to help reduce waste, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis told the House Environment Committee on Wednesday. He ...

As the heat wave continues to grip Cyprus, the met office has issued a new extreme high temperature warning for Thursday when temperatures are expected to reach 41C inland and 33...

The health ministry announced a total of 61 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The state health services (Okypy) is postponing all non-urgent operations in anticipation of a rise in hospital admissions as a result of the recent surge in coronavirus case, spokesman Charalambos ...

Two sea turtles – Androniki and Emma –were released back into the sea on Wednesday after recuperating at the Sea Turtle Rescue Centre of the Fisheries Department where they were taken ...

The environment service has launched a two-month public consultation on draft regulations to manage plastic waste in the agricultural sector. Uncontrolled dumping and burning of plastic agricultural waste pollute the ...

Church services to mark the saint’s day of Ayia Marina will be held at the chapel of the same name in the Dherynia buffer zone on Friday and Saturday, ...

Bus and taxi drivers must be vaccinated or have a 72-hour negative test to work, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said in new guidelines for the public transport sector issued on ...

IF the advisory committee on coronavirus deems it necessary to take further measures, their suggestions will be tabled to the cabinet, set to meet on Friday, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos ...

Authorities on Wednesday confirmed that a 22-year-old pregnant woman has been intubated after presenting pneumonia from Covid-19. The woman, who is on her 20th week of gestation, is at the ...

The operation of walk-in vaccination centres, available only for Gesy beneficiaries, will “facilitate residents’ access to vaccination”, the health ministry said on Wednesday. Five walk-in vaccination centres will start operation ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said Wednesday he expected the UN and the EU to react accordingly to any Turkish actions concerning Varosha, as the National Council discussed the matter during a ...

An outbreak of Covid-19 cases was reported on the largest Royal Navy warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth, after the aircraft carrier stopped over in Limassol. According to UK-based media, at least 100 ...

A tenacious family’s dogged pursuit of the truth could provide answers to a soldier’s 2005 death By Achilleas Demetriades The Nicolaou case is a very sad one indeed. Not ...

One Nicosia-based private vet specialises in treating wild animals, but his main obsession is birds As a boy, Constantinos Antoniou watched and counted birds while spending the summers at his ...

In the last few months, the authorities have been toying with the idea of placing 30kph speed limit in the towns to improve the safety of pedestrians. Road bumps have ...

Owners of recreation centres on Tuesday threatened to stage nationwide protests unless the government amends a decree that sees business owners checking that customers and staff have a SafePass. After ...

The health ministry on Tuesday announced that two people died of Covid-19, while daily recorded coronavirus cases reached 1,081. The deaths concerned two men. The first, aged 86, passed away at Larnaca ...

The government has received a series of legal opinions over the past six months from foreign experts about Varosha, Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides said on Tuesday. Savvides, speaking to the press ...

The ‘walk-in’ vaccinations centres where people will not need to book an appointment will start operating on Thursday the health ministry announced on Tuesday. According to health ministry spokesperson Margarita ...

The Pancyprian federation of labour (Peo) on Tuesday said the instructions for employers to forbid people from working unless they have a SafePass creates a climate of tension and instead ...