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The House finance committee on Monday formally decided to take a bill on state-backed loans to the plenum for a vote later this week – literally on the eleventh hour before ...

Famagusta hospital, the reference hospital for coronavirus cases, is currently 99 per cent full, its medical director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Monday. By Monday night 284 people were in hospital with coronavirus ...

The government on Monday sought to play down the findings of an inquiry into the controversial citizenship by investment programme, which found problems with close to 52 per cent of the ...

The current measures against the spread of coronavirus will remain in place until at least mid-May, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday, pointing out there will be no tightening ...

Famagusta hospital, the reference hospital for coronavirus cases, is currently 99 per cent full, its medical director Amalia Hadjiyianni said on Monday. “Today 74 patients with coronavirus are being treated at the ...

Cyprus Sustainable Tourism Initiative’s chairman outlines the importance of expanding the island product By Kyriacos Nicolaou Sustainable tourism has been a transformative force for the sector on the island ...

Three deaths and 852 coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday. The deaths concern three men aged 62, 65 and 92. The 65-year-old man had received the first dose of a vaccine. The other two ...

From hunters to Varosha refugees, small new parties are attempting to woo a disillusioned electorate By George Psyllides As election day edges closer, it appears that the island’s political ...

The epidemiological picture does not allow further relaxations, for now, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said on Sunday. The announcement comes after an emergency meeting at the Presidential Palace under President ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Sunday that any problems arising from a ruling by the attorney-general that parties can only use their registered names for the upcoming parliamentary elections ...

Greece has a higher positivity rate than Cyprus, but is deemed a safer country to visit By Kyriacos Iacovides The health ministry is taking pride in the daily number of ...

Despite endless promises, there’s little sign of a new psychiatric hospital By Gina Agapiou Nurses at Cyprus’ sole state psychiatric hospital say they are near ‘burnout’ as they struggle ...

It was rather amusing watching the members of the council of ministers arriving at the state fair vaccination centre on Thursday, like a group of tourists on sightseeing visit, so ...

IF HE DID not have the golden passports to bang on about every day or his public hero-worship of Odysseas to signal his virtue, Ethnarch Junior would have nothing to ...

By Alper Ali Riza In Mark Twain’s story The Prince and the Pauper, a boy crown prince switches roles with a pauper of the same age and appearance to ...

Four deaths and 786 new coronavirus cases were announced on Saturday. The deaths concern two women, aged 47 and 80, and two men, aged 71 and 88. All of them had underlying health conditions. The 71...

Focus is on both well-known and lesser-known attractions Paphos’ rich collection of antiquities and other lesser-known site of interests are undergoing an extensive upgrade and promotion boost to improve the ...

By Andrew MacAskill, Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton Queen Elizabeth bade farewell to Prince Philip at a funeral on Saturday that celebrated his seven decades of service and gave grandsons ...

A rally took place on Saturday in Nicosia by members of trade unions and other organisations in favour of scrapping the 12 per cent penalty imposed on people who retire early ...

Polis Chrysochous municipality and surrounding communities warned on Saturday they would take measures over what they said was the government’s failure to provide proper public healthcare. The communities expressed ...

Scores of people from Aradippou and Larnaca held a protest on Saturday against the planned relocation of an asphalt plant from Dali to the nearby Koshi area. The protest started ...

Police on Saturday said they had received a report of possible medical malpractice from the family of a 71-year-old man who died just a few hours after being discharged from ...

The vaccinations portal will reopen on Sunday for people between 64 and 67, the health ministry said, while also announcing that they are picking up the pace with the aim of scheduling ...

Main opposition Akel on Saturday inaugurated a bicommunal photo exhibition in Dherynia with a central theme of the present division of the island juxtaposed with the chance of future unity. ...