#Cyprus

As expected, voter turnout in the north for ‘parliamentary’ elections on Sunday was very low, with only 58.23 per cent of those eligible taking part by the time polling stations closed. ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Sunday expressed the government’s disagreement over planned increases in charges at Limassol port, saying that efforts are being made so that these will not ...

A military exercise with the participation of a frigate of the French Navy took place on Friday in the sea south of Larnaca, the ministry of defence said on Sunday. ...

The Test and Stay scheme to be introduced in schools as of Monday to allow close contacts to stay in lessons will only create more problems, deputy leader of the ...

No information so far indicated people in Cyprus were involved in the well-publicised rape of a 24-year-old woman in Thessaloniki, Cyprus the Cyprus News Agency reported on Sunday. From the ...

A Larnaca-based company is producing plant-based meat replacements currently available at a handful of restaurants although the range is about to spread. Alix Norman gets a taste for something a ...

Increasing migratory flows into Cyprus require comprehensive management of the asylum system in line with international laws and norms to implement fast and fair asylum procedures, the UNHCR representative in ...

A Nicosia business was fined €1,500 after police found a customer without a SafePass in the premises after 687 checks in the district. Four individuals and four more establishments were booked in ...

President Anastasiades expressed the hope that the UN Security Council resolution for the renewal of the Unficyp mandate would include the things that were missing from the report of the ...

Vasiliko area communities on Tuesday welcomed moves to address their safety concerns. including through increased government oversight of projects underway there. The decisions were taken at an urgent meeting convened ...

The European border and coast guard agency helped return a record of more than 18,000 non-EU nationals to 102 countries last year, with Cyprus being among the main operations, a report showed ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday warned that the justice system faces imminent collapse unless a reform drive goes through now as a broad meeting of stakeholders was held at the ...

Authorities on Tuesday announced that five more people have died of Covid-19, while testing tracked 2,200 new positives. The latest fatalities were four men – aged 90, 89, 83 and 67 – and a woman aged 86. The 89...

Some 3,000 asylum seekers have obtained jobs amid keen interest to fill vacant positions in the labour market, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. And as of January 17, a total ...

Six per cent of hospitalised coronavirus patients have received the booster shot and contracted the virus two weeks or more after its administration, the health ministry said on Tuesday. According ...

The contentious ‘test to stay’ measure will be implemented at schools as of Monday, the health ministry said on Tuesday after a meeting between Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas and the ...

Six illegal bird trappers were arrested in the past two weeks, according to numbers published by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) on Tuesday. In a social media post, the ...

The House labour committee on Tuesday discussed a bill for extending the time window for paternity leave to help families balance their family and professional lives. The bill, submitted by ...

A total of 79 free rapid testing sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Wednesday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

The Omicron variant remains the most dominant on the island as it was traced in 86 per cent of coronavirus cases tested last week, the health ministry said on Tuesday. However, ...

Newly-elected President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola (Malta, European Peoples Party) has stressed the need for a settlement on the Cyprus problem and on the role that Europe can ...

Aiming to bring strangers together to discuss meaningful things in life, Conversation Cafés are frequently held around the island. Alix Norman meets one of the women behind them Tired ...

Government sources on Tuesday ruled out a lockdown as advisors deliberated tighter measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, amid a surge in daily infections. Government spokesman Marios Pelekanos ...

The imminent reopening of schools hangs in the balance amid concerns, shared by teachers’ unions and pediatricians on Monday, that sending children back to class will only add fuel to ...