Cyprus

The cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal for a single referendum to be held on local authority reform whose discussion has been dragging on for years amid opposition from political ...

Presidential aide Victoras Papadopoulos has tested positive for coronavirus, forcing three other senior presidential staffers to quarantine, it emerged on Tuesday. Reports said Papadopoulos had symptoms, but a rapid test ...

Three frontline health professionals who opted not to receive a vaccine have tested positive for coronavirus, as around 50 per cent of state hospital staff were unvaccinated, officials said on Tuesday. ...

Rapid tests and their use have come in for a fresh round of criticism, with complaints that some are of poor quality, which raises concerns of profiteering. “The way in ...

The new Covid ward at Paphos general hospital was treating five patients on Tuesday, while it has the capacity for 48 people, including high-dependency patients, according to the state health services (...

For the second day in a row, the labour inspection department warned of high levels of dust in the atmosphere on Tuesday morning. The latest hourly dust concentration, measured at 9...

Police carried out 10,923 checks to curb the spread of the coronavirus from Monday until Tuesday and booked 141 individuals and two businesses for violating decrees. One of the establishments booked is ...

Police on Monday arrested a woman in connection with a car arson which happened on Sunday in Nicosia. Shortly after midnight on Sunday police were informed that three cars parked ...

The house human rights committee on Monday debated a bill to increase penalties for sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. The proposal, tabled by Disy’s Mariella Aristidou and ...

A fire at a Nicosia district pig farm on Monday evening killed many animals and destroyed part of the facility, the fire service said. Fire fighters were dispatched to the ...

EU foreign ministers agreed to keep all options on the table regarding Turkey in case recent signs of de-escalation proved unsustainable, the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said ...

The House finance committee is leaning towards extending a scheme that enables taxpayers to pay outstanding taxes in instalments, despite reservations voiced by the tax office, the Cyprus News Agency ...

The health ministry said Monday two people died from Covid over the past 24 hours and 410 new infections were detected from 43,173 tests, a positivity rate of 0.95 per cent. The ministry said 217 ...

Coronavirus rapid antigen testing sites for Tuesday District Location Operating hours Limassol (14 sites) Ayios Ioannis Eleimon Church 8.30 a.m. – 5.30 p.m. ‘Andreas Themistocleous’ TEPAK building, Ayia Zoni (old land registry, ...

Vulnerable groups and everyone aged 45 and over should receive their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by the first week of May, the health ministry announced on Monday. A total ...

Scores of Turkish Cypriots participated in a protest rally on Monday against the economic protocol the north signed with Turkey arguing that such agreements only consolidate Ankara’s grip. The ...

The parents of gymnasium pupils protested outside the presidential palace on Monday over the government decision to keep schools closed because of the Covid pandemic. The gymnasiums, which include the ...

Paphos registered a decrease in reported crimes in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to Paphos police spokesperson Michalis Ioannou. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency on Monday, Ioannou said ...

Greece’s ambassador to Cyprus Theocharis Lalakos delivered to Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Monday a copy of the flag used by the Cypriots who fought in the 1821 Greek revolution ...

Denying allegations of possible conflict of interest, Yiorgos Aresti, who headed the committee of inquiry on the collapse of the co-op, said on Monday he had no reason or intention ...

A new campaign is underway to press the government to scrap a 12 per cent ‘penalty’ on the pensions of those who retire at 63 and not 65. This follows a meeting at ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday said he had no intention of dismissing negotiating team member Tassos Tzionis after he criticised the way the government was handling the Cyprus problem. A ...

President Nikos Anastasiades on Monday visited Eleftheria square as part of a tour of new development projects, accompanied by mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis. “I feel particularly proud that Nicosia is changing, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades weighed in on the placement of barbed wire along parts of the buffer zone on Monday, saying that it is a necessary barrier to Turkey’s strategy. ...