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Main opposition Akel on Monday called on President Nicos Anastasiades to realise he must not only claim he wants to continue talks on the Cyprus problem from where they left ...

The government on Monday presented its supplementary budget of €250 million to be spent on dealing with the coronavirus situation, including support to businesses and the healthcare sector. The extra spending ...

Parliament on Monday said its website was under attack by a Turkish hacker and it would upload the promised list on bad loans of politically exposed persons (PEPs) and other ...

Israel was on Monday moved out of the red list of countries to the orange, which will be in effect as of Thursday. Other changed to country categorisations were the ...

Former interior minister Socratis Hasikos passed away early on Monday morning at the age of 64 after a long battle with cancer. Hasikos had lately been hospitalised in Germany. “It is ...

Part II: Natasa Pilides, minister for energy, commerce and industry, has kindly conceded to Dr. Charles Ellinas and Andrew Rosenbaum a major update on energy policy and legislation. The Minister ...

Local legislation pertaining to an EU directive set to come into force in July that declares war on 10 single-use plastic items is not ready yet, Greens leader Charalambous Theopemptou has ...

Both gyms and restaurants have reopened, but despite extra weight gain during the lockdowns people are more interested in eating Obesity rates in Cyprus, especially among children, have reached alarming ...

The health ministry on Friday announced 431 cases of Covid-19 from 54,842 PCR and rapid tests with a positivity rate of 0.79 per cent. There were no new deaths. The death toll remains ...

Heads of state, top politicians and the media have been quite right to liken the health crisis caused by Covid-19 to “a war against an invisible enemy”. Military and war ...

From Egypt to South Africa, the Greeks came in their thousands, and then they left By George Philipas Today there remain only few Greeks in Africa, mainly in the metropolises ...

Blunt assessment of Geneva meeting from former president George Vassiliou President Anastasiades needs to dispel the doubts that exist about his commitment to a bizonal, bicommunal federation (BBF) clearly and ...

Turkish Cypriots know only too well the fate of their hellim/halloumi. They fear it will join a long list of other products the government of the Republic gets to ...

Elections will take place against a backdrop of public disillusionment, the pandemic and a mushrooming array of small parties With two months to go until the May 30 parliamentary elections, political ...

Our relations with the Soviet Union and Russia have rarely proved beneficial Two days after Cyprus’ independence, the new state was formally recognised by the Soviet Union on 18 August 1960. The ...

Natasa Pilides, minister for energy, commerce and industry, has kindly conceded to Dr. Charles Ellinas and Andrew Rosenbaum a major update on energy policy and legislation. The Minister addresses nearly ...

Key historic buildings in Nicosia’s old town are being put to new use as part of what the state hopes will be an urban transformation Nicosia’s historic city ...

Almost every time the council of ministers takes decisions on Covid measures it also sanctions more state spending on support measures, perhaps as a way of sugaring the pill of ...

The health ministry said Saturday 404 new coronavirus infections were detected in the past 24 hours after 50,343 tests, but there were no deaths. The positivity rate on Saturday was 0.80 per cent, the ...

Scientists were taken aback by the sudden spike in infections on Friday but could not immediately explain the reason, member of the government advisory committee Petros Karayiannis said on Saturday. ...

Halloumi cheese could soon become very hard to find in Australian supermarkets after it was declared a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) product by the European Union as the country’...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou warned the public on Saturday not to let their guard down against the coronavirus, suggesting that things would get better in a couple of months as ...

Two people, both aged 21, were remanded for eight days by Larnaca District Court on Saturday after police said they seized around 1.2 kilos of cannabis following an operation in Larnaca on ...

Parliament has voted to bolster the law against people smugglers and educational institutions which facilitate “sham” students’ entry into the Republic. Perhaps the most notable change is that now people ...