Jean Christou

Makarios children’s hospital in Nicosia remains 95 per cent occupied with young patients suffering from respiratory infections, flu and some Covid 19, but mainly with RSV, the director of the paediatric ...

Cypriot doctor Nikolas Papachrysostomou, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders who recently returned from five weeks in Gaza, said nothing and no one is safe in the strip that is ...

By Jean Christou The budget of the Cyprus Addiction Treatment Authority has been increased by €600,000 for 2024 MPs heard on Thursday. However, some raised concerns that several addiction prevention programmes had ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has left a deep imprint on the psyche of the nation, according to the latest report of the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee, which was handed over on ...

Cyprus is not on board with aspects of the UN Secretary-General’s reports on Unficyp’s mandate and Antonio Guterres’ Good Offices Mission, especially as regards incidents in the buffer ...

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, on Thursday expressed concerns about the increasing militarisation of the buffer zone and said that the latest report on ...

There was no flood or fire warning system in the server room that was brought down by a water leak in April last year, and no CCTV monitoring, a report ...

The government has expanded free pre-primary education from the age of four years and eight months to four years and six months with the aim of eventually bringing it down ...

An investigation into the alleged theft of electronic items confiscated by customs officials is in its final stages, reports said on Thursday. Three customs officials are under investigation as part ...

The Paraplegics’ Organisation has won this year’s ‘Stella Soulioti’ annual human rights award, which will presented at the foreign ministry on December 28, along with the €10,000 prize. The award was ...

The cabinet has approved a proposal for changes concerning the implementation of the Sustainable Development Plan (SDP) projects for the Akamas National Park, specifically a review of the contentious roadworks ...

Paphos municipality has sent a letter to the Bishopric hoping to put an end to a long legal battle over the construction of a church in the public gardens that ...

A 47-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday after police said they found 29 boxes containing a total of 174 bottles of illegal booze hidden in his car. In ...

The minimum wage will go up from €940 to €1,000 a month, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou announced on Wednesday after the cabinet meeting, in a move that has left the island’s ...

The current legislative framework does not ensure the financial independence of the audit service, which is being stymied by the executive branch, it said yesterday in its annual report. The ...

The health ministry has announced the rollout on Thursday of the new Novavax Covid-19 vaccine for those aged 18 and over. The new vaccine, Nuvaxovid BBB.1.5, is a protein-based vaccine, unlike ...

Despite a steady increase in recent years, Cyprus still spends less on health in total than other EU countries – both as current expenditure per capita and as a share of ...

Life expectancy in Cyprus has fallen from 82.4 years in 2020 to 81.7 years in 2022 after dropping to a low of 81.3 years in 2021, according to an EU health report. Despite the drop, life ...

First ever study on history teaching in Europe A significant percentage of history teachers in Cyprus don’t see the benefit or don’t have time for training courses, say ...

After long legal battle authorities told to pay for near-collapse of house in Paphos district A landmark decision from the Paphos district court has for the first time seen authorities ...

Cyprus is committed to increase defence spending to 2 per cent of GDP in the next five years, MPs were told on Friday. Presenting the defence ministry’s 2024 budget to the ...

The Cyprus-based Thalassaemia International Federation (TIF) on Friday hailed the landmark announcement by UK regulators approving a revolutionary gene-editing treatment for beta thalassemia and sickle-cell disease “and ushering in a ...

Dozens of Cypriot students went on the march to the US embassy in Nicosia on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 bloody Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military ...

Cyprus and Israel have agreed to a structured dialogue with working groups from each side to thrash out details for the creation of a maritime humanitarian corridor to Gaza, Foreign ...