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Police fined 139 individuals and the owner of one establishment for violations of Covid-19 measures after 11,203 checks carried out across the island between Friday and Saturday morning. The owner of the ...

A palliative care centre for cancer patients in Famagusta is coming, says deputy head of KEPA Agios Christophoros in Paralimni. Dimitris Papaevelthontos told the Cyprus News Agency that the idea ...

Saying that the earthquake which rattled Cyprus on Thursday only underscored the sorry state of their current premises, employees working at the social insurance department on Byron Avenue in Nicosia ...

President Nicos Anastasiades welcomed the approval of the 2021 state budget by parliament, urging all parties to leave the toxic climate behind and focus on its implementation. “The government’s will ...

With the approval of the 2021 state budget, the education ministry said on Friday it was now in a position to announce implementation of a €900 grant for artists as well as ...

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 ...

A total of 260 forged euro banknotes were taken out of circulation in 2020 by authorities in Cyprus, down 43.1 per cent on the previous year and only a minute fraction of the ...

One in two labour fatalities result from a fall from a height, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday, a day after a 66-year-old man was killed after falling while ...

A total of 3,711 coronavirus cases were diagnosed in the two-week period from January 6 to 19, with Limassol and Nicosia accounting for two thirds of these. According to the latest national surveillance ...

It has been a grim January, with 61 coronavirus-related deaths so far, 24 of them in one week alone, according to figures published by the health ministry on Friday. This follows on ...

Nearly 1.3 million coronavirus tests, both PCR and rapid antigen tests, have been carried out in Cyprus since the start of the pandemic in March, the health ministry said on Friday. ...

Work to support listed buildings on Larnaca’s Ayios Lazaros Street is underway in preparation for a wider revamp to make the neighbourhood more accessible to the disabled, the Cyprus ...

A 66-year-old man died Thursday after falling from an external staircase while doing repair work on a private residence in Nicosia. The deceased is Efstathios Panteli Hadjialexandrou, a resident of ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday and 164 new cases from 11,170 PCR and rapid tests. The positivity rate stood at 1.47 per cent. Total positives since March number 29,636. ...

The health ministry has announced 21 sites where rapid coronavirus tests will be available on Thursday. District Testing Sites Time Limassol SupermarketParking”Sklavenitis”, Germasogeia (Columbia) 8.30 a.m.-4.30 p.m. “Lidl” ...

A man was remanded on Wednesday for eight days in connection with a case concerning child grooming and possession of child porn. The suspect was arrested after reports that a ...

The Limassol criminal court jailed three men for eight, seven and three years on Wednesday after they were found guilty of assaulting and mugging a 66-year-old woman last June. The ...

The Larnaca district court on Wednesday temporarily took away the driving licence of a 24-year-old man, who on January 3 was caught driving at 207kmph – more than twice the speed limit – ...

Cyprus Post announced Wednesday that the Lakatamia Post Office would remain closed for disinfection, due to a Covid incident. Until further notice, the office from tomorrow will be only operating ...

Limassol police are questioning a 27-year-old professional soldier (Syop) in connection with an explosion at a Cyprus telecommunications authority (Cyta) branch on December 13, the Cyprus News Agency reported late on ...

UN special representative Elizabeth Spehar on Tuesday briefed the UN Security Council on the secretary general’s good offices mission in Cyprus, focusing on efforts to convene an informal five ...

Movement restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic have limited contacts across the Green Line and deepened estrangement between two communities, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said in his latest report ...