#Cyprus

Forestry department workers continued a work to rule on Tuesday which they said will go on indefinitely to protest understaffing issues. According to the forestry department faction of labour union ...

Cyprus signed an agreement with the EU on Tuesday to regulate the return of migrants, with further cooperation to be announced shortly. Deputy Director-General in charge of the ‘Task Force ...

Fly-tipping near a turtle nesting beach in Akamas shows people lack environmental awareness and highlights the need to protect the area, the Green party has said. Plastic bags, bottles, surgical ...

There is no question at the moment of appointing a new envoy on behalf of the UN Secretary-General since the two sides do not agree on what that person’s ...

An online petition has been launched calling for the immediate resignation of Archbishop Chrysostomos after he placed a dozen priests on mandatory three-month leave because they are unvaccinated. The petition ...

The Supreme Court on Monday overturned a conviction against a young British woman who was accused of lying about being gang-raped in 2019, in response to an appeal made by her ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s willingness to open an informal dialogue with the Greek Cypriot side was on Monday called “another attempt on his part to promote his positions ...

The ‘test to stay’ testing system in schools came in for further criticism on Monday as some units never turned up which the health ministry said was due to Covid-19 ...

To what degree Covid-19 restrictions will be loosened is set to be the central issue on Tuesday as government advisors hold their weekly meeting against a backdrop of other countries ...

The archbishop has placed a dozen priests on mandatory leave as of Tuesday for three months over their refusal to get the Covid-19 vaccine, with the church primate saying they ...

Those who have had coronavirus will only be able to use their recovery certificate for SafePass purposes for 90 days as of Monday, whereas it was previously valid for 180 days. The ...

Coronavirus measures in schools will be evaluated during a meeting on Monday afternoon with the ministers of health and education. Educational organisations, parents’ confederations and other stakeholders are due to ...

Two hunters were fined €500 and €150 for illegal transportation of an assembled firearm on Sunday in the Ayios Nikolaos community of Paphos. According to the Paphos police, two vehicles were stopped ...

Twenty individuals and 16 establishments were fined in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Monday as a total of 2,152 checks were carried out around the island to check for violations ...

By Esra Aygin The crisis in the northern part of Cyprus has gone beyond an economic crisis and become a humanitarian one, according to one Turkish Cypriot economist. Between January 1 ...

Turkey’s president Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday that Israeli president Isaac Herzog will pay an official visit to Ankara next month. While Herzog’s spokesman declined to comment, The ...

FATHER of Gesy and independent presidential candidate hopeful Giorgos Pamborides suffered a couple of blows below the belt on Thursday thrown by his ungrateful former boss Prez Nik during an ...

Four people died from Covid on Saturday while 2,184 new cases were recorded, the ministry of health said. The four deaths all refer to men, two aged 92, one aged 83 and one ...

Covid vaccinations for children aged 5-11 have reached around 9 per cent, health ministry director-general Christina Yiannaki said on Saturday. She was visiting the walk-in vaccination centre operating at the State ...

The Supreme Court’s decision on whether to uphold or remove the conviction of a young British woman who was accused of lying about being gang-raped, will be important for ...

The Immovable Property Commission (IPC) was a trap, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Saturday while commenting on reports that Turkish Cypriot religious endowment foundation Evkaf has been named as an ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides will depart on Sunday for a working visit to Washington DC following an invitation by his US counterpart Antony Blinken. On Tuesday he will meet Secretary ...

The first phase of the new Nicosia bus network kicked off on Saturday, with the transport ministry saying the second phase is due to begin at the end of February. ...

As Cyprus prepares to discuss possible relaxations to coronavirus decrees next week, one of Israel’s top vaccination advisors told the Cyprus Mail that the significance of the Covid-19 passes ...