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An underwater museum is set to boost the island’s profile when it opens in July, but exactly what it will look like is being kept under wraps
An underwater ...
A total of 27 cases of sexual abuse have been investigated by the specialised police team, 15 of which have been sent to court for trial, police spokeswoman Eleni Constantinou said on ...
From tomorrow Cyprus will take a step towards the return to more normal rhythms of social and economic activity, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Sunday.
“This step is the ...
Residents of villages in or next to the buffer zone where the government is currently installing barbed wire have held a demonstration against it, saying the wire is affecting some ...
Huge queues formed on Sunday at rapid testing sites in all areas.
Due to increased demand the ministry of health said all sites will remain open until 7.30pm on Sunday ...
China’s Ambassador to Cyprus, Liu Yantao answers the Cyprus Mail’s questions on issues ranging from relations between the two countries and health cooperation on the pandemic to Hong ...
People using public transport as of Monday will have to have had a negative result from PCR or rapid test, have been vaccinated with at least one dose three weeks ...
Under the pandemic conditions of the last 14 months women have taken on a disproportionate burden largely because they are in the majority in working roles in the front line, Labour ...
Close colleague of former president Glafcos Clerides and director of his presidential office Pantelis Kouros died on Saturday, aged 89.
Condolence messages and donations in his memory can be made here: ...
Forty one new cases of coronavirus were reported in the north on Saturday out of a total of 8,276 tests.
The ‘ministry of health’ said these referred to one overseas traveller, 12 ...
A total of 138 individuals and three businesses were charged by the police in the 24 hours leading up to 6am on Sunday for breaking coronavirus restrictions.
A police spokesman told the ...
A total of 354,264 vaccines had been administered in Cyprus by Saturday, the ministry of health announced on Sunday, representing 40.3 injections per 100 residents.
Of these 270,101 (36.5%) were the first dose and 84,163 (11.4%) the ...
A further two people arrested in connection with the setting fire to a police patrol car in Limassol on Holy Saturday were remanded in police custody for five days by ...
The ‘safe pass’ -the colloquial term for documentation allowing people unfettered access to any venue – will be used “long term” and can be displayed in either electronic or print form, ...
Two people died from Covid-19 and 397 new infections were detected in the past 24 hours after 71,251 tests, a positivity rate of 0.56 per cent, the health ministry said on Saturday.
The ministry ...
The testing sites for Sunday are as follows:
District
Sampling points
Hours
Limassol
(21 points)
Church of Agios Ioannis Eleimonos, Agios Ioannis
9.30 a.m.-7 p.m.
“Grigori Afxentiou” Square, Limassol
9 ...
EU leaders are clear that Turkey`s position on Cyprus solution cannot be accepted or tolerated, President Nicos Anastasiades has said.
The president who is in Porto for the EU ...
A parliamentary candidate accused of rape committed over 10 years ago denied the crime Saturday and blamed it on political expediency.
In a post on Facebook, Andreas Ttaouxis, a Larnaca municipal ...
Authorities fined a 40-year-old man €11,000, after he was caught by Game Fund officers in possession of two turtle doves in a game reserve area in Limassol, police said on Saturday.
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As of Monday, May 10, people will have to display a so-called Safepass to be allowed entrance in certain venues and facilities, in line with government measures to stop the spread ...
Police said Saturday they reported 11 people for driving under the influence of drugs in the past 10 days with three also being over the alcohol limit.
The force said 11 people tested ...
GPs have so far ordered around 20,000 vaccine doses, which they will administer to their patients without them having to go through the vaccination portal.
According to health insurance organisation official, ...
Close to 36 per cent of the population has received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine while 11.2 per cent got both, the health ministry said on Saturday.
By Friday, ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres highlighted that conflict prevention and mediation was a key element of his activities and gave the example of the Cyprus 5+1 informal meeting that took place in ...