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Not a single bid was submitted for the tender for the ferry connection between Greece and Cyprus which expired on Friday, Deputy Minister of Shipping Vassilis Demetriades has said. The ...

Opposition parties went on the counterattack on Friday, saying President Nicos Anastasiades’ claims that he was a victim of a smear attack over Cyprus’ now defunct golden passport scheme were ...

The government’s recent strict measures have paid off, as the epidemiological outlook has improved, coronavirus advisory committee member Petros Karayiannis said on Friday. The University of Nicosia professor of ...

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is due in Cyprus on Thursday for a short visit for contacts with the two leaders and Special Representative of the Secretary-General Elizabeth Spehar, it ...

The Road Safety Council is considering which busy city streets will have their speed limit reduced from the current 50km/h to 30km/h. Such a policy shift would be ...

PRESIDENT Anastasiades felt obliged to answer the accusations of corruption directed at his government and him personally in a televised address which he gave on Thursday night. Was this necessary, ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday his mandate from the UN Security Council refers explicitly to a bizonal, bicommunal solution in Cyprus, but this was not an impediment to ...

Cyprus’ households waste more food than they think according to the findings of a survey presented on Thursday. According to the Life FOODprint survey, aimed at raising awareness about the ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced four more deaths from Covid-19, taking the death toll in Cyprus to 197, as well as 158 new cases, while 153 people were being treated in hospitals. The ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday attributed the tanking of the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme to a few bad actors, saying that whereas the programme did suffer from flaws, the corruption revelations ...

The audit office has flagged the leasing of an extensive expanse of state land to an entrepreneur for the purpose of building photovoltaic (PV) parks, noting that the entire process ...

The president’s former law firm was among those probed by the Bar association in the past without finding anything improper, its chairman Christos Clerides told an inquiry into the ...

The decision to ban access to nature trails, the forests and mountains as part of measures to restrict the spread of coronavirus is illogical and restricts human rights, the Green ...

Pressure from big business has kept small retail outlets closed until February 8, the union of small shopkeepers Povek claimed on Thursday. It said that, although all the information filtered down ...

The health ministry announced on Thursday that the obligatory testing on workers who are already at their workplaces or will return next week has started. To cope with demand, the ...

Cyprus has dropped nine places to 42nd in Transparency International’s 180 global corruption index (CPI), it was reported on Thursday, hours before President Nicos Anastasiades is scheduled to announce measures ...

Cyprus ranks fifth in a Covid Performance Index of almost 100 countries for its successful handling of the coronavirus pandemic published by think tank Lowy Institute on Thursday. New Zealand, Vietnam ...

The long-standing fly-tipping problem in Paralimni lake underlines the need for the creation of a green point in Famagusta, said the mayors of the municipalities responsible for the lake on ...

The legislature’s initiative to tighten and rationalise the laughably ineffective law governing the publication of the asset statements by politicians is commendable. We do not know whether the initiative ...

Lawyer Andreas Pittadjis, who stars along with the former House president and an Akel MP in the controversial video released last year by Al Jazeera in which they all appear ...

Employers and parents’ groups on Wednesday lambasted the government over the gradual relaxations of Covid-19 measures, saying they did not go far enough. The employers and industrialists’ federation (OEV) said ...

Three deaths and 128 new cases of the coronavirus were announced on Wednesday. Hospitalisations dropped to 155 with 52 patients in serious condition. Thirty-three patients are intubated. The three deaths were one woman, ...

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, ...