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The informal 5+1 meeting is an ambitious goal, however we should not miss the window of opportunity presented to us, outgoing permanent representative of Cyprus to the UN and interlocutor of ...

But most are adhering to the rules Over this past week, police fined a number of supermarkets for flouting the lockdown’s restrictive measures by selling non-essential items such as ...

Treasures from the sanctuary at Frangissa are on display in London and Toronto, but its exact location remained a mystery until last year. Annette Chrysostomou speaks to one very excited ...

Three people died from the coronavirus on Sunday, bringing the total number of deaths so far to 186, the ministry of health announced on Sunday. At the same time 130 positive results (...

Caught between obstructive Cyprus government and dismissive European court By Esat Mustafa In March 1964, following intercommunal fighting, myself, my family and 250 other Turkish Cypriot villagers fled the beautiful, green village ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos is expected to testify before the four-member investigative committee looking into citizenship by investment on Tuesday. Speaking in Paphos on Sunday, he said the contribution the church received ...

The relaxation of coronavirus measures after January 31 is considered certain, with the scientific team of the ministry of health backing the path followed last May and June, after the first ...

Business after business is poised to fail, but it’s been a bumper year for food delivery services By Jonathan Shkurko The extraordinary events of the coronavirus pandemic in the ...

By Kyriacos Iacovides The reopening of schools, which was scheduled for February 1 when the latest lockdown was announced, could be further delayed if the scientific advisory team deems it unsafe, ...

EVERY morning the police issue a report proudly informing us how many people have been fined for committing heinous crimes such as not wearing a face mask on the street ...

By Alper Ali Riza Inauguration Day in the US is the living embodiment of the American constitution, which I proffered as a model for Cyprus last week. A model is ...

Four deaths and 129 new cases of coronavirus out of 8,155 tests were announced on Saturday. The positivity rate is 1.58 per cent. The health ministry said hospital admissions had dropped to 174, but 59 ...

Another 1,170 Pfizer vaccine doses will be delivered to the Turkish Cypriot side on Monday, co-chair of the bicommunal Technical Committee on Health Leonidas Phylactou said on Saturday. The vaccines are ...

Greece’s foreign minister said he hoped Turkey would have a positive approach towards a meeting next week aimed at reviving long-stalled efforts to open negotiations over disputed territorial claims. ...

The government saw no reason to deny a Cypriot passport to the niece of Cambodia’s authoritarian leader and wife of the country’s deputy police chief back in 2016, former ...

A glitch in the CyRepublic service’s system has led to the delivery of text messages to people informing them they were close contacts of coronavirus cases even though this ...

Police urged the public on Saturday to be alert and not reply to text messages allegedly coming from banks calling on them to verify their access details to e-banking portals ...

The tourism industry in Cyprus could be headed for another barren summer as the European Commission advises an end to all non-essential travel. Fears over a third wave and coronavirus ...

The Estia scheme, by which the taxpayer will subsidise the loans of people that have not been repaying their mortgages will now be extended to those who are ineligible to ...

February should be considered more of a transition period than a time to start easing Covid restrictions, the head of the government’s advisory committee, assistant professor of internal medicine ...

Service providers were the main problem of the citizenship by investment programme, a finance ministry official told an investigative committee on Friday. Financial director Kyriacos Kakouris told the four-member panel ...

One person has died from Covid-19, the health ministry said on Friday, while 122 new cases were detected after 9,635 tests, a positivity rate of 1.27 per cent. The ministry said 179 people were ...

The health ministry on Friday urged employees who have returned to work after it relaxed the number of staff permitted at each premise to take a rapid antigen test. It ...

One week since the launch of the vaccination programme in the north, health personnel have administered the first 11,000 doses of the coronavirus jab and have stored another 11,000 for the second ...