#Cyprus

The leader of the London Borough of Waltham Forest has apologised to the UK’s Greek Cypriot community after the council granted permission to Turkish Cypriots to hoist the breakaway ...

The attorney-general’s office on Tuesday said it had no comment on its decision a day earlier to drop all charges against three individuals in the case of the so-called ‘...

We are facing “extremely difficult times in the Cyprus peace process” with the positions of both sides having moved further apart in recent months, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in ...

A preliminary report of the audit service’s probe into the controversial citizenship by investment scheme will be ready by the end of the year or early next year, Auditor-general ...

A mobile Covid-19 vaccination unit will operate in central Larnaca on Saturday as authorities press on with efforts to boost vaccination coverage in Cyprus amid growing concerns a recent uptick ...

Rough men and women, taming the wild West frontier, gun slinging and tobacco chewing. The western is a genre that has been around forever, detailing the struggles of the people ...

Authorities on Monday identified 18 potential human trafficking victims of Russian and Ukrainian origin in Strovolos following a tip-off. Head of the office tasked with countering human trafficking Eleni Michail told ...

Saying that daily coronavirus cases on Monday might surpass 300, a health ministry advisor warned that a fifth wave may be coming to the island. In the wake of partial lockdowns ...

The cabinet on Monday approved legislation regulating the use of scooters or e-scooters, including minimum specifications and safety measures. The bills were prepared by the transport ministry in a bid ...

Authorities are investigating 12 fires that broke out almost simultaneously in remote areas in the Paphos district on Sunday, with preliminary findings suggesting that these were not coincidental but deliberate, fire ...

Cabinet on Monday approved the administration of a booster dose to adults over who have received their second anti-coronavirus vaccine six months previously. The decision was taken amid concerns regarding ...

A total of 23 people were fined in the last 24 hours for violating coronavirus measures, police said early on Monday. The fines resulted from 2,857 checks in the government-controlled areas, most of ...

Rich with a history stretching back thousands of years, Cyprus has no dearth of ghost villages, however few of them have received as much attention as Foinikas, perhaps due to ...

No deaths were announced from coronavirus on Sunday as the ministry of health recorded 206 new Covid cases. These were from a total of 40,298, representing a positivity rate of 0.51 per cent. ...

In a message to mark 38 years since the unilateral declaration of independence in the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday said the people there live in their own ...

By Brian Lait Back in September 2019 when Gesy was in its infancy, I wrote an article entitled “Will messy Gesy clean up its act?” Apart from lengthily commenting on the ...

A village in the Paphos district has reportedly been left without water since Thursday because the village authority cannot afford to pay the electricity bill. The village of Prastio is ...

The endemic Paphos dandelion (Taraxacum aphrogenes) has been selected by the agriculture ministry as its plant of the month as it continues its campaign to inform the public about the ...

Praise indeed for the balanced, unbiased and factual reporting as exampled in Friday’s (Cyprus Mail, November 5) edition of the Covid pages. Long may you continue this sort of freedom ...

The second informal tripartite meeting of the foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece and the United Arab Emirates was held on the sidelines of the Sir Bani Yas Forum in Dubai ...

Thousands of bullets found in an abandoned house in Limassol on Sunday are thought to be part of the large number stolen from a container last month. According to Limassol ...

An international body running ports and airports in the north could end its isolation and help conditions for a solution One of the basic mistakes that have been consistently committed – ...

Turkish moves in Famagusta will be outlined at the EU Foreign Affairs Council to be held in Brussels on Monday, the anniversary of the universal declaration of independence in the ...

The reality of the Cyprus problem has been repeatedly said, but in an organised way some people have taken care to place the blame on the Greek Cypriot side and ...