Cyprus

In today’s episode, we hear how the island’s reservoirs are only at just over 50 per cent capacity due to the dearth of rainfall for this time of the ...

British Bases personnel, units from the UK and Cyprus recently undertook a three-day joint bomb disposal training in Akrotiri to “share best practices and foster working relationships for future collaboration”, ...

A 34-year-old man has been arrested after police discovered 190g of cannabis. Following a court warrant, officers searched his home at around 7pm on Sunday. During the search four plastic ...

A supermarket was fined €4,000 because customers were not being kept further enough apart and a restaurant was fined €650 as for the second time it was found not checking that customers ...

A 32-year-old has been arrested following a knife attack and causing bodily harm in Paphos. According to the police a member of the community board of a village in Paphos ...

Around 65 per cent of Cypriots believe their lives will return to normal after the pandemic, according to a poll published on Sunday but the majority of those think it will ...

But it all comes down to air connectivity and airlines keeping winter flights in place October was this year’s best month by far for tourism as hotels experienced their ...

The health ministry announced on Sunday there had been no new deaths from Covid-19 while 133 positives were recorded from 39,447 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.34 per cent. There ...

Nicosia’s former main shopping street to be finished in time for Christmas The long-long-awaited revamp of Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue is set to be completed on December 7, but a ...

The following are the free testing sites for Monday. District Sampling points Hours Limassol (5 points) University Square (behind TEPAK Rector’s Office) 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cultural Events Hall, ...

Opposition Akel on Sunday called for a meeting of the National Council to discuss a six-page document for a decentralised federation that was drawn up by the Greek Cypriot side ...

The island’s reservoirs are only at just over 50 per cent capacity due to the dearth of rainfall for this time of the year, it was reported on Sunday. The ...

The government hopes the fast-track mechanism it has introduced to simplify processes for foreign businesses wanting to set up operations in Cyprus will finally end the long bureaucratic delays that ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Sunday launched a scathing attack on public service union Pasydy general-secretary Stratis Mattheou who blamed the government for a delay to the ongoing reforms process. ...

A 38-year-old man who crashed his car through the window of a taxi office in Limassol in an alleged attempt to kill another man aged 47, was remanded by the court ...

Police have issued an appeal to the public to help located a Limassol man missing from his home since November 2. Michalis Pelis, 36, was reported missing on Saturday after not being ...

The pandemic and Brexit created a perfect storm of delays for online shoppers last winter The Post Office is urging shoppers to place online orders as quickly as possible to ...

Turkey is ready for anything in order to defend its rights in the eastern Mediterranean but it is working for peace in the region, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted ...

Over 1,000 drivers were booked for traffic offences in 48 hours between Friday morning and Sunday morning, police said. The force said it had issued a total of 1,060 fines for various traffic ...

Incentives to companies to come to Cyprus and those already here to expand By Fabian Cabeza, Theodora Alexandrou, Maria Aristidou Cyprus is a long-established international business centre and through various ...

A drunk motorist aged 42, driving at five times the limit with a passenger aged 22 crashed into a traffic island in the early hours of Sunday in Larnaca. Neither was injured ...

A 58-year-old woman was killed by a car while crossing a road in Paphos on Saturday afternoon. The man she was walking with, aged 70, was injured in the incident and ...

Cold call ban meant Forex scam was not on regulators’ radar Regulators in Cyprus had no indication that an Israeli permanent resident involved in the Forex sector was suspected of ...

One person died from coronavirus on Saturday as 174 new cases were recorded. The death was an 83-year-old man who died on Friday at the general hospital in Limassol. His death ...