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A Native American actor and director living in the Paphos district died in a traffic accident on Tuesday afternoon. Ahab O’Hary, also known as Dick O ‘Hary, 58, who lived ...

The state has tolerated illegalities and irregularities at the Cypra abattoir over several years, Greens MP Yiorgos Perdikis said on Wednesday, the second day of his testimony before a committee ...

Pfizer has not yet delivered to the European Union about 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that were due in December, EU officials said, leaving it about one-third short of the supplies ...

The fallout from Saturday’s protest – with footage of police violence shocking many observers – has engulfed the local political landscape but has also drawn an unusual amount of international scrutiny. ...

Farmers will receive €2.5 million in compensation for crop damage following the approval of the cabinet on Wednesday. A total of 875 farmers will benefit from the overall sum of €2.5m, split ...

The health ministry on Wednesday published its updated epidemiological risk assessment for Covid-19, leaving three countries in Category A from which under new rules travellers must self-isolate for 72 hours and ...

With the coronavirus pandemic still raging, Cyprus welcomed only 3,889 tourists in January, a massive 95.5 per cent slump compared to last January’s 85,622 tourist arrivals, according to figures published by the ...

With an emphasis on rural areas and young people, the government on Wednesday unveiled new housing schemes and incentives it said would boost the economy and entrepreneurship. The new package ...

Environment Commissioner Klelia Vassiliou on Wednesday stepped into the fracas over felled trees on Makarios Avenue with a letter to Nicosia municipality asking to be briefed on how the decision ...

Bahrain has launched a digital COVID-19 vaccine passport, one of the first countries to do so, the Gulf state’s media office said on Wednesday. Governments and developers around the ...

Larnaca’s various municipalities and communities said on Wednesday they were ready to take action against the government’s decision to move two Dali asphalt plants to their district. In ...

The overwhelming majority of employees and all employers recognise that there is gender inequality in the workplace, while 86 per cent of employees are convinced that women are more frequently victims ...

The main news to emerge from President Anastasiades’ one-day visit to Israel on Sunday was that vaccinated Israelis would be free to travel to Cyprus without a PCR test and ...

Temperatures are set to plummet in the next few days, the meteorological service said on Tuesday. Cyprus is in the midst of a milder version of snowstorm Medea which has ...

The health ministry announced three deaths and 81 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. The deaths concerned an 89-year-old woman, a 74-year-old man and a 94-year-old man, all with underlying conditions. ...

A young musician who risks losing her sight in one eye following injury by a police water cannon at a Nicosia protest will file a lawsuit against specific officers, she ...

Four criminal investigators were on Tuesday appointed by the independent authority investigating complaints against police to look into how heavy-handed officers’ behaviour was against protestors at Saturday’s demonstration against ...

Nicosia municipality will cut down nearly 90 trees as part of the revamp of Makarios Avenue, it was announced on Tuesday. The decision was approved by the forestry department, the municipality ...

Nearly one in three of food and drink establishments will not be able to reopen once coronavirus restrictions are lifted, Neophytos Thrasyvoulou, who chairs Osika, the association representing them, told ...

The government’s cash reserves amounted to €3.84 billion at the end-2020, approximately 20 per cent of the island’s GDP, despite pressure on both public finances and the economy due to ...

Larnaca municipality and local communities on Tuesday expressed their opposition to the relocation of the two Dali asphalt plants to the coastal district. “Residents are tired of Larnaca being the ...

The epidemiological data in Cyprus are at a turning point as regards tourism, Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios has said, stressing that at a time when the whole of ...

The House finance committee on Monday discussed two bills extending tax breaks to landlords who rent to businesses stricken by the coronavirus crisis, which aim at convincing them to voluntarily ...

Every time the police use some force against rioters or football hooligans, they are accused of using ‘excessive force’. Most of the time this accusation is unjustified, but on Saturday ...