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Less than two years before the government’s proposed Akamas national park sustainable plan is due to be implemented, environmentalists and landowners in the area remain as deeply divided as ...

Apart from the loss of lives, the pandemic has also caused a loss of reason among those that govern us. Covid-19 has had a disastrous effect on rational thinking, not ...

IF THERE was anyone who thought that Prez Nik’s impassioned declarations of support for the bizonal, bicommunal federation, even without political equality, and for the resumption of talks at ...

It was nationally too sensitive to let the European Commission procure vaccines for EU states To protect from the virus or from the vaccine, that was the question in Europe ...

The health ministry announced one death and 407 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday from 53,774 PCR and rapid tests, yielding a positivity rate of 0.7 per cent. The death concerned a man ...

The exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey and the negotiations for the solution of the Cyprus issue “must reach a satisfactory conclusion and cannot go on endlessly – time is not ...

Gymnasiums could reopen if Covid protocols are implemented but how soon that may be has not yet been decided, an adviser to the government told secondary school union Oelmek, it ...

Cyprus will fail to manage the migration flow to the island unless the EU adopts a “coordinated, fair and balanced” policy which would be tailored to its member states, Interior ...

Holidays abroad are “extremely unlikely” for most Britons this summer due to the risk of importing new variants of Covid-19, a scientist who advises the government said on Saturday, leaving ...

The education ministry was slammed on Saturday for firing a contract teacher after they refused to undergo the mandatory weekly rapid test for coronavirus. In a statement denouncing the ministry’...

Limassol district court remanded a 44-year-old father for four days on Saturday for giving drugs to his 11-year-old son. The man was arrested following a visit by the social welfare ...

Most coronavirus patients admitted to Famagusta Hospital the past fortnight have required treatment for about seven to eight days, hospital chief Amalia Hadjiyianni has said. “The past 15 days, most cases ...

The uprooting of bushes from a beach in the Baths of Aphrodite area was to give lifeguards better visibility of the sea, Neo Chorio community leader Andreas Christodoulou said on ...

The establishment of the Deputy Ministry of Culture has been set in motion. Last week the council of ministers approved the relevant bill and it was submitted to the legislature ...

By Antigoni Pitta and Gina Agapiou The University of Cyprus maritime archaeological research laboratory is collaborating with the antiquities department and the department of fisheries and marine research on the ...

Political parties crossed swords on Friday at the House plenum on the Cyprus problem and on what the Greek Cypriot side’s stand ought to be at next month’s ...

The health ministry announced no deaths and 364 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday. As there were no deaths, the total number remains 241, of whom 160 were men and 81 women, with an ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and European Union chiefs discussed eastern Mediterranean tensions and Turkey-EU ties in a video call on Friday, ahead of an EU summit due to address fraught ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday stressed the important role the EU can play in during the informal conference on the Cyprus issue that will take place next month in Geneva. ...

Cyprus has been receiving the biggest flow of migrants in proportion to its population, which is threatening to change its demographics, a presidential aide said on Friday, ahead of a ...

Government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos received the AstraZeneca jab on Friday, becoming the first member of the government to be vaccinated against the coronavirus after President Nicos Anastasiades who kicked off ...

Government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos denied on Friday that the law firm he was a partner in had drafted the agreement to hand over the management of over €7bn in bad ...

Cyprus has been declared a ‘dark red zone’ based on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the health ministry’s epidemiological report revealed on Friday. According to ...

MPs have given the green light to the establishment of a dedicated police unit to handle cases of animal cruelty in what they said marked a step forward for animal ...