Cyprus

From car emissions to polluting factories, the state is failing its people By Charalampos Theopemptou People often ask me which is the biggest environmental problem that we face. My answer ...

It started with a refill station at Yermasoyia and is now spreading to other municipalities around the island By Eleni Kazelas Last Monday, March 22, was World Water Day, and to ...

Cyprus recorded the first win of their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign with a 1-0 victory over Slovenia at the GSP stadium in Nicosia on Tuesday night. Apollon star Ioannis Pittas ...

Deputy Shipping Minister Vassilis Demetriades said on Tuesday the government had not given up on establishing a ferry link with Greece and was hoping the European Commission would allow better ...

A cautiously optimistic picture of the coming months was painted by stakeholders taking part in a conference on the restart of the tourism industry on Tuesday with the consensus that ...

Energy and Commerce Minister Natasa Pilidou on Tuesday visited Lefkara to check out the embroidery training programme, which is part of a plan to save, strengthen and preserve traditional techniques ...

The health ministry announced two deaths and 439 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday. The deaths concerned a 67-year-old woman with underlying conditions who was being treated in the ICU and ...

Due to low demand for appointments, the vaccination portal for insulin-dependent diabetics, diabetics with other serious conditions and the obese will close at 7pm on Wednesday, the health ministry announced ...

News of the registration by the EU of halloumi/hellim as a protected designation of origin (PDO) was met in the north with calls for more clarity about how the ...

The government’s plan for revitalising old Nicosia – an endeavour with an approximately three-year timeframe – was presented to stakeholders on Tuesday by Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides. Petrides and Nicosia mayor ...

Around 40 missing people are set to be identified soon by the Committee for Missing Persons (CMP), Akel MP Skevi Koukouma told the Cyprus News Agency on Tuesday. Koukouma, who is ...

Paphos municipality on Tuesday announced there would be water cuts in various parts of town due to damage to the Water Development Department’s pipeline. “It is expected that there ...

Parents of children still following online classes on Tuesday called for “a reasonable amount of time” to be dedicated to determining what their children have learned during time away from ...

Any developments on the EU’s participation in the informal five-party summit next month in Geneva will be made known after the visit to Ankara by the presidents of the ...

A total of 55 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Wednesday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

All gymnasium students returning to school on April 2 must undergo a rapid antigen test, the health ministry reminded on Tuesday, while announcing that mobile units will be sent to remote ...

Police said Tuesday they were close to completing the investigation of several cases relating to sexual offences, which would be then forwarded to the attorney-general for instructions. The force has ...

The Turkish-made TV drama called ‘Once Upon a Time in Cyprus’, set to focus on the events of 1963, is to air on April 1. The series, which will depict events from 1963...

A bar owner in the old part of Nicosia will be taken in court for a series of violations of the measures against the spread of coronavirus after videos circulating ...

The five-year-old boy whom the court ordered must return to the US after his father took the mother in court for abducting the child in 2017 and bringing him to Cyprus, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades hailed the registration of halloumi cheese as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) product as historic, which also sent a strong message to Turkish Cypriots on the ...

Around 20 days after its launch, 7,723 people only have downloaded a contact tracing application – CovTracer – that alerts contacts of people who were found positive for the virus, a senior official said ...

Four patients and two health professionals at the Nicosia general hospital’s cardiological ward, including a fully vaccinated doctor, had tested positive for coronavirus, it was confirmed on Tuesday, as ...

Two cheques totalling €48,119 were on Tuesday presented to the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Association and the One Dream, One Wish charity organisation, by Bases Administrator Major General Rob Thomson. The money, which ...