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Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides on Wednesday hit back at the newly established European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) which said that 10 per cent of the 3,000 fraud investigations it estimates it will ...

Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday called for action by the EU to make sure AstraZeneca treats the bloc the same way as its other customers after the company said ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos has once more caused a stir after he appeared to refer to himself and President Nicos Anastasiades as thieves while testifying in an inquiry into the citizenship by ...

Solving the Cyprus problem is a priority for the EU, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. The minister told the Cyprus News Agency that the informal five-party summit on ...

The government on Wednesday announced the easing of Covid restrictions, including reopening hairdressers and beauticians on Monday and primary schools and the retail sector on February 8. There will be mandatory ...

If MPs decide at Thursday’s plenum that the list of politically exposed persons (PEP) with bad loans should be made public, it will be published on parliament’s website, ...

The Larnaca sewerage council (SAL) has urged people not to throw disposable masks and gloves down the toilet. In an announcement released on Wednesday, SAL said that disposable items which ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved the creation of a technical committee for the more sustainable handling of construction waste. According to EU law, member states are obliged to adopt the ...

The defence ministry warned Wednesday that people of certain ages who have not reported for reservist duty, including those who have not provided the necessary documentation justifying their absence, could ...

Ali Pilli, the north’s ‘health minister’, said that the lockdown will help stem the surge of coronavirus cases – but he also criticised the mass movement of people. He said ...

As President Nicos Anastasiades is scheduled to address the nation on Thursday night about anti-corruption measures, opposition parties have taken shots from the sidelines. The stage is set for a ...

The lawyer of a young hacker who became the first ever Cypriot citizen to be extradited to the US and who has been found guilty of committing cyber-crimes by a ...

The cabinet has declared May 12 to be the Day of the Farmer after suggestions by agricultural organisations who wanted to honour a historical uprising by Cypriot serfs between 1426 and 1427. “With ...

Dherynia municipality on Wednesday said it was looking at ways to keep the people who live in Strovilia in place and also increase the population of the area. Mayor Andros ...

The cabinet will meet later today to draw up a plan of action for the coming months for the expected gradual lifting of coronavirus restrictions. One of the most contentious ...

The scientific advisory team was unanimous in its proposal for regulating the movement of citizens through the SMS authorisation system. According to press reports, the team advised the government on ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday and 109 new infections from 10,992 tests, a positivity rate of just under one per cent. The number of deaths since the ...

Former interior minister Constantinos Petrides told an inquiry he had never been a fan of the island’s citizenship by investment programme, which ultimately overturned the excellent image Cyprus had ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar spoke with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by teleconference late Monday, telling him it was a reality that there were two equal and separate sides on ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Tuesday he met briefly and only once with Jho Low, a Malaysian national granted Cypriot citizenship in 2015, but that he was unaware at the time that ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris warned on Tuesday that allowing referendums on the mergers of municipalities and local communities would tank the drive to reform local government. “It will be chaos,” ...

A young hacker who became the first ever Cypriot citizen to be extradited to the US has been found guilty of committing cyber-crimes by a court in the state of ...

Aradippou mayor Evangelos Evangelides said Tuesday he was strongly opposed to any merging of his municipality with Larnaca, saying it could function perfectly well independently. Speaking to the Cyprus News ...

People over the age of 88 will be able to arrange vaccinations via the vaccination portal from Wednesday morning, the government announced on Tuesday. The portal is available from 9am for ...