The UN has said it hopes the parties attending the informal 5+1 meeting on Cyprus in Geneva next week will attend with creativity.
“I think what the Secretary-General, the aim as ...
The Audit Office on Wednesday said the company being paid to process massive quantities of used car tyres is failing to do so
In a report, the Audit Office said ...
The government did the right thing to withdraw the bill amending the law on the courts which had been changed beyond recognition by the political parties. The aim of the ...
There were no deaths from Covid in the past 24 hours, as 843 new infections were reported after 53,024 tests, an overall positivity rate of 1.59 per cent, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
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President Nicos Anastasiades’ response to criticism from opposition parties on the way he is handling the Cyprus problem will be given in Geneva, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said on Wednesday.
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The government said on Wednesday it withdrew a bill amending the courts law after opposition parties added provisions that change the foreclosures framework, jeopardising the stability of the banking sector.
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The UNHCR is ready to provide further help to Cyprus to handle the influx of irregular migrants, its assistant high commissioner for protection Gillian Triggs said on Wednesday.
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Health professionals are struggling to cope as the number of admissions of patients with coronavirus continues to surge.
The daily number of Covid patients is around 280 which is very high. ...
A bill for €1 billion in state-backed loans to Covid stricken businesses is expected to be approved by parliament on Thursday, including a controversial provision to have the auditor-general monitor the ...
Cyprus’ best known and most photographed bird, ‘Kokos’ the pelican, has died at the ripe old age of 25.
Found at the Pelican restaurant in Kato Paphos alongside his friend, a ...
Cyprus faces the grim prospect of another lost year for tourism, the Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (ACTA) warned on Wednesday.
The dire warning was delivered by ACTA spokesman Haris ...
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Wednesday a lockdown “is a scenario that remains on the table” should the number of daily Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations increase in the coming ...
A vaccination programme for enclaved Greek Cypriots has been nearly completed, presidential commissioner Photis Photiou whose portfolio includes humanitarian issues, told the Cyprus News Agency on Wednesday.
He said that ...
A total of 60 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday, the health ministry announced.
The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...
The general court of the EU said on Wednesday that the EU’s Intellectual Property Office should not have registered the name ‘Grilloumi’ by Swedish company Fontana Food AB.
The ...
The commerce ministry’s consumer protection service said on Wednesday it had fined the House Finance Corporation €20,000 over some of its advertisements.
The service found that a number of them ...
Should the number of positive Covid-19 cases increase even more in the next weeks, the government will have no choice but to revert to stricter measures, according to Maria Koliou, ...
Efforts are focused on finding a way so that both communities on the island feel safe, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday in Athens upon his arrival at the office ...
The Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine will be administered from Thursday or by Monday at the latest after it was given the green light by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) ...
The world over, governments are viewing the ocean as a new economic frontier
By Maria Hadjimichael
A consequence of the economic crisis and the realisation of the finite nature of ...
A week before the informal five-party conference in Geneva President Nicos Anastasiades has quite unexpectedly decided to talk about the minutes of his meeting in Crans-Montana with Turkey’s Foreign ...
Annual event on April 22 is celebrated by a billion people in more than 190 countries
By Annette Chrysostomou
The theme of this year’s Earth Day, marked on Thursday, April 22, is ...
The health ministry announced one death and a record 941 cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday.
A 69-year-old man died at Nicosia general hospital after being treated in the ICU unit. He ...
As Nicosia moves into the final stages of preparations ahead of the informal five-party summit in Geneva where the island’s two community leaders will meet under the UN secretary-general ...