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Children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelides praised the passing of a recent bill which establishes a clearer framework for the handling of minors in the legal system. Michaelides said on ...

Arrivals from overseas to the north will be subject to wearing electronic bracelets within their own homes to carry out their coronavirus quarantine, it was reported on Monday. The change ...

The deputy ministry of tourism has announced that a study is underway to explore the growing possibilities in terms of tourism in the area of Polis Chrysochous. In an announcement ...

The House finance committee on Monday discussed a bill extending a scheme allowing businesses to pay overdue taxes through installments if they saw a 25 per cent reduction in turnover. The ...

More than 80 per cent of people in Cyprus aged over 80 have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, of whom 70 per cent have received both jabs, the health ministry said on Monday ...

The government’s plans to hold a referendum on local government reform on the same day as the parliamentary elections appear doomed after the House interior committee decided by majority ...

A total of 56 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Tuesday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Ruling party Disy on Monday donated mastic trees to the forestry department to be distributed to first grade primary school students nationwide. As part of the one million trees initiative ...

Up to 10 per cent of those vaccinated might not respond to the vaccine epidemiologist Petros Karayiannis said on Monday in response to concerns about the deaths of fully vaccinated people. ...

Opposition parties said on Monday they planned to submit amendments to the courts bill to allow borrowers to stop foreclosures. The House finance committee left the matter open to see ...

Former Kiti bishop Chrysostomos will stand trial for rape on April 26, state broadcaster CyBC reported on Monday. The clergyman appeared before Larnaca district court on Monday, which referred him direct ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Monday delivered new computers to a Nicosia primary school with the pledge that all schools will be suitably equipped so as to facilitate the use ...

Parliament on Monday discussed a draft legislation on how to allow Covid-19 confirmed cases who are self-isolating to vote in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Despite the pandemic, Cyprus will proceed ...

There are currently 225 coronavirus patients being treated at state hospitals, the highest number since the start of the pandemic more than a year ago, the spokesman of the state health ...

The European Commission on Monday officially registered halloumi as a protected designation of origin (PDO) so that only halloumi produced in Cyprus and according to the product specification can use ...

A total of 20,000 vaccination slots will be available for people aged 55 and 56 on Tuesday and Wednesday, the health ministry said on Monday as it announced its vaccination programme for April 13 ...

The vaccination portal will open for people aged 55 and 56 on Tuesday and Wednesday, as Cyprus presses ahead with offering the AstraZeneca vaccine to all age groups in line with EMA ...

The aim of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during the upcoming informal meeting in Geneva is to determine whether there is common ground between the two sides, the Cyprus News Agency (...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou was given the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, making sure to clarify that he had received the AstraZeneca vaccine amid a concerted push by authorities to ease ...

From the numbers of expats waiting years for citizenships to the environmental impact of development projects, the Cyprus Mail put the new freedom of information act to the test. It ...

No new deaths and 470 new cases of coronavirus were reported on Sunday. A total of 55,096 tests were carried out, meaning the positivity rate was 0.85 per cent. The new cases bring ...

Responding to criticism levelled against the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic over the last few days, the ministry of health on Sunday said that the island was the ...

Waste in Aglandjia has been reduced by 41 per cent with scheme The nationwide pay-as-you-throw scheme is due to be announced later this month but is already running in Aglandjia municipality, ...

A slew of pro-solution groups are growing increasingly vocal as talks loom The slew of pro-solution groups cropping up over the past couple of years, and especially in the last ...