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Calls for the removal of Turkish troops and an end to Turkey’s guarantor status are red lines from which the north will not budge, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ...

Work is underway to provide a better road network in Peyia which started with the demolition of a house on a dangerous corner allow road widening on Sunday, local authorities ...

One death from the coronavirus and 113 new cases were announced on Monday. The health ministry said the death was of a woman in Nicosia general hospital, aged 86, who had underlying ...

The met service issued a yellow weather warning for rain and storms late on Monday. Drivers were asked to be careful citing limited visibility on the road. The service also ...

The health ministry has announced the rapid testing sites for Tuesday. The sites are for the testing of the wider population but also the obligatory weekly testing of people back ...

Those who took to the streets on Saturday demonstrating against corruption and pandemic measures did not expect the police to use batons, teargas and water cannon to break up the ...

A 25-year-old woman who was injured by a police water cannon during a protest in Nicosia on Saturday underwent an eye operation on Monday. Local musician Anastasia Demetriadou participated in ...

The postal services have suspended deliveries to certain countries due to bad weather conditions, it was announced on Monday. Citing bad weather conditions in European countries, the services announced the ...

The epidemiological picture in Limassol remains alarming, the health ministry said on Monday following a meeting with the advisory committee on coronavirus and the contact tracing team. One reason put ...

Opposition MPs on Monday piled on Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis for having reported to authorities a Twitter parody account – leading to police raiding the home of a Larnaca woman – with ...

Opposition parties called for the justice minister’s resignation on Monday following accusations that police had unnecessarily cracked down on demonstrators using excessive force and injuring several people, including a 25...

More than 400,000 people have undergone a rapid coronavirus test in the last two weeks, the health ministry announced on Monday. Between February 1 to February 14, the health ministry carried out more ...

Police are investigating a complaint of sexual assault made against a politician, a spokesman confirmed on Monday. In a recent statement to the police, a woman has alleged that a ...

Cyprus has one of the highest survival rates for pediatric cancer in the world, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday as International Childhood Cancer Day is marked globally on ...

US study shows classrooms not a hotbed for Covid transmissions By Antigoni Pitta With students of all ages having had almost a year of fragmented schooling, parents and experts are ...

As of April 1, Israelis vaccinated with a vaccine approved by the European Medicine Association (EMA) will not be required to take a PCR test to travel to Cyprus and will ...

One death and 123 new coronavirus cases were announced on Sunday. The health ministry said the death was of a man, 87 with underlying health conditions. The total number of deaths from ...

New law could help in fight against corruption and ineptitude in government By Theo Panayides The saga of Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis, who complained to the police about a Twitter ...

By Elias Hazou While by no means a death blow to Cyprus’ aspirations to export natural gas to Egypt, a recent investment decision by companies in nearby Israel to expand ...

Flights and tourism between Israel and Cyprus will resume as soon as conditions allow, the two countries’ presidents said on Sunday following a meeting in Jerusalem. President Nicos Anastasiades met ...

Police chief Stelios Papatheodorou will ask the independent authority for the investigation of complaints against the police (Aadipa) to probe whether officers exerted excessive or disproportionate violence during the protest ...

Why only twice a day? And why are we putting up with it? By George Psyllides As the fight against Covid-19 drags on, more and more people have started questioning ...

THE DEMO against corruption and the Covid restrictions that took place in Nicosia on Saturday afternoon was crushed by the cops, as you would expect in any self-respecting police state. ...

It may be too much to say with any certainty that the tragedy that unfolded in Ergates village last Thursday would have been avoided if the state services had performed ...