Cyprus

Police on Friday announced they seized around 600,000 rapid tests as part of investigations relating to the alleged document forgery case unveiled earlier in the week. This came after a company ...

Police booked 21,000 people for speeding in the last two months, traffic police data published on Friday showed. The data, covering the period between March 24 and May 24, showed that speed was ...

People aged under 50 who have booked an AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine are able to change it, the health minister said on Friday. Speaking to the CyBC, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said ...

To boost tourism to specific groups Larnaca municipality and the Larnaca tourist board plan on grouping the city’s tourist attractions into clusters, starting with the Art Workshops Neighbourhood, they ...

Tenders were invited on Friday for the construction of a new mental health centre in Nicosia, part of the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, the transport ministry said. The ...

Cyprus’ epidemiological picture has continued its steady and dramatic improvement, with major reductions across the main criteria – from hospitalisations, cases, deaths and other indicators. In the last 14 days, the cumulative ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said the government will continue to work to secure the future of the young people of Cyprus. “I have realised how much more I owe to young ...

Campaigning for the parliamentary elections to be held on Sunday draws to a close on Friday night as government officials hand over the ballot boxes and 600,000 ballots to officers in ...

Police arrested a 20-year-old early on Friday for speeding on the Limassol-Nicosia motorway. The man was caught driving at 200km per hour, in an area where 100km per hour is ...

Police fined 20 people after 4,234 checks for the implementation of coronavirus measures in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Friday. Between 6am on Thursday and 6am on Friday, police fined ...

Cyprus Small- to Medium-sized businesses must undergo a transformation in order to survive – they need to jettison past ways of doing business and adopt those that are right for today. ...

Turkish Cypriot Ersin Tatar has sent a letter to the UN Secretary General laying out his side’s approach to the Cyprus issue and how he sees the process going ...

Sparks continued flying on Thursday over the resignation of Volunteerism Commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki, the affair bleeding into the last stretch of the election campaign showmanship, as more details came to ...

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, ...

Paphos municipality has awarded a grant of €8,000 to a doctoral student of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus, it announced on Thursday. Maria Ktoris received ...

The vaccination portal will reopen on Friday for 36–39-year-olds, the health ministry said on Thursday, announcing that almost 51 per cent of the population has received a jab. Members of the ...

The health ministry announced a total of 71 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Friday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

The ministry of health issued some clarifications on the upcoming measure relaxations that were announced earlier on Thursday. The new measures will see the curfew moved from midnight to 1am ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday morning announced that €23.5 million from the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan would be given to boost the Makarios hospital to cater for everything needed ...

The state health services (Okypy) on Thursday said that hospital wards previously used for Covid-19 patients were slowly emptying, allowing them to return to their original use. Despite this, Famagusta ...

Brits living overseas might get ‘votes for life’ as the British parliament is set to discuss a bill scrapping the 15-year limit on voting rights in the coming days, an ...

Voters living in the north wishing to cross to the government-controlled areas on Sunday to vote will have to present a negative PCR test not older than 72 hours on their ...

Police are investigating an online investment scam after a 43-year-old woman reported she lost more than €10,000 by investing in a fake international company. The woman, who lives in Paphos, told ...

Police said on Thursday they had arrested a 63-year-old third-country national in Kato Paphos on suspicion of forging a European passport. According to the police, a foreign woman visited a ...