Nick Theodoulou

The health minister will convene an extraordinary Covid advisory committee on Monday as nations impose restrictions on travellers from China amid its surge of the virus. China, undergoing up to ...

Disy leader and presidential candidate Averof Neophytou met with former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci as they discussed the Cyprus problem. The announcement came from Akinci on social media with ...

Officials denied that Cyprus is facing a shortage in key medicines such as antibiotics, amid reports of pharmacies running low. Elena Panayiotopoulou, deputy director of the pharmaceutical services, said on ...

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is to visit on Thursday where a series of agreements are to be signed, ranging from migration and military cooperation to overseeing accession to ...

A small Paphos village with its handful of residents have had their water cut for a month, using buckets to transport water, according to complaints from locals. The four families ...

Cypriots still choose cash over cards – ranking amongst the top three nations in EU for cash use – but cards and other cashless instruments are quickly catching up. The Central Bank ...

About 50 return tickets can be won as part of Cyprus Airways’ promotional push during the holidays, with passengers automatically eligible to win. “This festive period is the time to visit ...

Murdered Turkish Cypriot inmate Tansu Cidan was tortured for two days until he was killed, suffering injuries all over his body, according to court hearings on Thursday. The state’s ...

Hellenic Bank on Thursday urged its customers to exercise caution amid a surge in fraud and scam attempts being made particularly over SMS, emphasising that employees will never ask for ...

Rising interest rates have not hit the real estate market as sales are up by 36 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to Elikkos Elia, director of ...

The police on Wednesday warned that heightened road safety checks will be carried out from December 23 through to January 6, as they also issued safety advice for the holidays. The bolstered ...

Between two and three trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas has been uncovered in exploratory drilling in block six of Cyprus’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the energy ministry ...

Experts on Wednesday expressed concern as hospitals remain at high occupancy rates with many patients being admitted for respiratory illnesses. Admissions are rising in the pulmonology, pathology, and paediatric wards – ...

Cyprus’ coastal Pissouri and Kalopanayiotis in the mountains made it onto the UN’s ‘Best Tourism Villages’ of 2022, alongside 30 others ranging from Austria to Vietnam. The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) ...

The agriculture census for 2020 was published on Tuesday which found that Cyprus has 323,522 pigs, 4.7 million poultry and that about 1,463 km² is agricultural area (the island is 9,251 km2). It found that ...

The Department of Lands and Surveys (DLS) said it will modernise and update its records so that each property is assigned to its owner with their ID number. Elikkos Elia, ...

The scandal of mobile phone use in the Nicosia prison deepened this week as the company tasked with upgrading the system to deactivate phones said it had inadvertently reconnected some ...

The public has been urged to register and get out to vote in the upcoming February presidential elections, as four candidates jointly issued the call. On Friday, four candidates – Nikos ...

Peyia has hosted over 800 civil weddings this year which has netted the municipality about half a million euros, with bookings made up until 2025. Marinos Lambrou, the seaside community’s mayor, ...

The Greens party expressed their outrage on Thursday over the findings of the auditor general’s report which stated that the forestry department grossly overpaid for firefighting helicopters. The party ...

Cypriots remain amongst the most skeptical of the EU’s handling of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with 53 per cent approving overall of the bloc’s support for Kyiv. While ...

Tamasos Bishop Isaias said on Wednesday during a Q&A session that he grew up listening to Iron Maiden and ACDC – frequenting the former Africana disco in Nicosia. “Music ...

The New Cyprus museum – with a price tag of €144m – will be the number one tourist attraction for the millions of Cyprus’ visitors, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Wednesday. ...

Paphos residents are being called upon to partake in a Christmas food and core goods collection campaign. The Ladies Circle 5 Paphos, Round Table 7 Paphos and Tangent Club Cyprus are collecting ...