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Nicosia Municipality has signed a €1.8m agreement with the Electricity Authority to replace 7,300 street lights with smart LED technology, expected to reduce energy consumption by more than 65 per cent. Signed ...

Hookahs, which had been prohibited under health protocols to prevent the spread of coronavirus, are now allowed outdoors but only for individual use under new rules published on Tuesday to ...

The Antiquities Department has started digitisation of ancient movable antiquities stored in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia and on display in other state museums, it said on Tuesday. The project, ...

Lidl Cyprus discount supermarkets have donated €45,000 to the Cyprus Red Cross this year in support of families in need and children with disabilities. The German company collected €40,000 by donating €0.30 for ...

A total of 64 rapid testing sites will operate around the island on Tuesday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Disy retained is position as the largest party in the House after Sunday’s elections for new MPs although it saw its number of seats reduced, as did the other ...

Seven parties were set to enter parliament following Sunday’s parliamentary elections but the three biggest each lost in or around 3% over the previous legislative elections in 2016 in what is ...

The health ministry on Sunday announced 44 new coronavirus cases and said no deaths have been reported from the virus. The total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic ...

Early exit polls indicate seven parties in the new House of Representatives emerging from Sunday’s polls, with the embattled ruling party Disy managing to hang on to first place, ...

Polling stations closed at 6pm on Sunday as Cypriots went out to vote in a new House of Representatives, in a process that was marked by abstention of many voters ...

The Turkish Cypriot side is ready to reopen the crossing points on Monday under specific conditions, ‘prime minister Ersan Saner was quoted as saying on Sunday. “From May 31, 2021, we will ...

A candidate for the hunters’ party is to be charged with assaulting a police officer at a polling station in Limassol, with police saying he had pushed and swore at ...

Nicosia Municipality on Sunday castigated vandalism at Eleftheria Square which it blamed on fans of Omonia29M on Saturday evening and said will cost several thousands of euros to repair. ...

Fifty-one testing locations for Monday as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol ( 17 points) “Grigori Afxentiou” Square, Limassol 7.30 am-7.30 pm TEPAK Building “Andreas Themistokleous”, Agia Zoni (Old Land Registry of Limassol, ...

Police have arrested a 27-year-old man who injured a policeman when fleeing a police check, having first thrown out eight pouches containing five grams of cannabis out of the window ...

The testing sites for Sunday are as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (20 points) Church of Agios Ioannis Eleimonos, Limassol 9 a.m.-7 p.m. TEPAK Building “Andreas Themistokleous”, Agia ...

The health ministry on Saturday announced there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 while 56 people tested positive from 56,456 PCR and rapid tests. a positivity rate of 0.1 per cent. There ...

The health ministry announced three deaths and another 73 positives for Covid-19 on Friday from 62,125 PCR and rapid tests with a positivity rate of 0.12 per cent. The deaths concerned two men ...

The health ministry on Thursday announced 75 new positives for coronavirus, for a positivity rate of 0.17 per cent, while the number of the hospitalised continue to drop. No new deaths occurred, ...

Police on Wednesday arrested an 18-year-old man after being reported by an underage girl of hacking into her social media accounts and sending her photos to others. He is being ...

The health ministry announced a total of 66 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Two drivers were caught speeding on the Limassol-Nicosia highway on Tuesday night, with the first found to be driving under the influence of alcohol and the second testing positive for ...

The transport ministry is inviting tenders for the construction of wave breakers and other work to protect Chlorakas coast between the St George and Laura hotels. The €3.73 million project includes ...

A list of hotels and other tourist complexes participating in a special scheme to boost domestic tourism is available online, the deputy ministry of tourism said on Wednesday. Open to ...