Clarifications regarding people’s movement after the lockdown is lifted on May 10 will be announced in the upcoming days, the health ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry is in the ...
Russians are currently spending their holidays in around 20 hotels in the Famagusta district while Russian and Israeli tourists are keeping 12 hotels in the Paphos district busy.
Though overall numbers are ...
Overcrowding and delays at the Spyros Kyprianou vaccination centre in Limassol early on Tuesday was an isolated incident caused by vaccine transportation issues, said the health ministry.
Vaccinations at the ...
President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday called on the Turkish side to consider the cost on Turkish Cypriots of the isolation they are leading them to by insisting on a two-state ...
In four weeks, parliamentary elections will be held but apart from some party advertisements there has been very little campaigning. In fact, if it were not for the billboards featuring ...
Health authorities on Monday announced seven deaths from Covid-19 and 481 new positives in island-wide testing.
The seven deaths concern: a man aged 73, unvaccinated, who died at Nicosia general ICU; a ...
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday criticised President Nicos Anastasiades for having an “anachronistic and domineering mentality” over references in his Easter message to his Turkish Cypriot “compatriots”.
Tatar, ...
By Jean Christou and Evie Andreou
The Cyprus Police Association on Monday condemned attacks on police officers and firemen during the weekend by young people who hurled stones at them ...
The first 40C of the year was hit on Monday, with a high of 40.6C recorded in Athalassa area of Nicosia, Kitas Weather reported as high temperatures are set to ...
Police on Monday afternoon tracked down and captured two men, both aged 26, who had earlier escaped from the Menoyia detention centre in the Larnaca district.
The two men, both from ...
Iceland was demoted from the Green category to Orange according to the latest country assessment for travel, issued by the health ministry on Monday.
The other changes concern Malta and ...
An education ministry proposal on how the Pancyprian exams will be carried out is set to be presented during Wednesday’s Cabinet session.
A report carried by daily Philelftheros said ...
For the second year running, President Nicos Anastasiades told locked-down Cypriots he hoped this would be the last Easter that was overshadowed by the pandemic.
In his Easter televised address ...
The health ministry announced one death and 58 positives for Covid-19 from 6,158 PCR and rapid tests on Sunday with a positivity rate of 0.94 per cent.
Mass testing was not carried out ...
Top quality honey is not easy to produce, especially in the face of local pesticide and antibiotic use and climate change
By Annette Chrysostomou
Projects such as the Achna bee ...
A police officers’ association called Isotita (Equality) on Sunday warned it would have to take action before officers or firefighters were killed in the light of a series of violent ...
In a flowery Easter Sunday message intermingled with a religious message about the resurrection of Christ, Archbishop Chrysostomos touched on the coronavirus pandemic and the Cyprus issue.
“The hopeful message ...
It was well known that common ground was beyond the reach of the protagonists at the 5+1 conference on Cyprus. It was a fool’s errand, but it went ahead regardless ...
Patients forced to transport own sensitive, expensive medications
By Bejay Browne
Patients currently undergoing treatment for a range of chronic and life-threatening diseases are being forced to not only fight ...
The health ministry announced one death and 463 positives for Covid-19 from 31,677 PCR and rapid tests with a positivity rate of 1.46 per cent.
The death concerned a man aged 80 who had ...
The current restrictions and measures in place against the spread of the virus have severely affected the political parties’ campaigning strategies for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The latest and strictest ...
There are no thoughts on scrapping the SMS requirements for leaving the house once lockdown measures are set to be lifted on May 10, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Saturday.
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By Annette Chrysostomou
A group of parents have launched a campaign to legalise homeschooling in Cyprus, arguing the coronavirus has proven this system was successful.
“In the past year, many ...
Auditor-general also being sued for defamation
The producers behind Jiu Jitsu – the Nicolas Cage sci-fi/action film shot in Cyprus in 2019 – are taking legal action against the government with two ...