Cyprus

The 2022 budget will mark the move to recovery, which will cover the ground lost in 2020, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Saturday as the government plans to end pandemic support ...

The ministry of health announced 47 testing sites will operate on Sunday for people in eligible groups still allowed to have a free test. They also need to have ID with ...

Justice Minister Stefi Drakou on Saturday gave assurances that the police presence in the old town of Nicosia would be stepped up to make residents feel secure. Speaking from Phaneromeni ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said he had nothing personal against Paralimni Mayor Theodoros Pirillis who went on a tirade on Saturday over a damning audit report about the municipality after issuing ...

Main opposition Akel said Saturday the president was correct to highlight Turkey’s aggression during his speech before the UN General Assembly, but he should have also sought to break ...

Cyprus and South Sudan have signed a Joint Communique establishing diplomatic relations. The communique was signed by Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides and South Sudan’s deputy Foreign Minister Deng Dau ...

Police reported 496 drivers for various traffic violations during a crackdown across the Republic between 7pm Friday and 6am Saturday. According to a statement, the bookings included 228 for speeding, 25 for using ...

ERA Department Stores and Woolworth (Cyprus) Properties have appealed Paphos district court’s decision concerning the companies’ unauthorised possession, use and operation of a building without the necessary permits issued ...

Fitch ratings agency has affirmed Cyprus’ long-term credit rating at BBB- with a stable outlook, reflecting the island’s institutional strength and a record of robust economic growth and sound ...

Police said Saturday they have arrested two youths who had been caught speeding in two separate cases in Nicosia and Larnaca. One of them was arrested at 2.10am after he ...

Police said Saturday they have reported 30 individuals and four businesses in the past 24 hours for various violations of Covid measures. Officers carried out 2,831 checks across the Republic, with most bookings ...

President Nicos Anastasiades and ExxonMobil discussed the company’s drilling plans in Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) block 10, during a meeting in New York, a presidency statement said Saturday. The ...

The European Commission has approved a €2.7 million scheme by Cyprus to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the agricultural and livestock production, affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The ...

Migrants’ support NGO Kisa on Friday called for an independent criminal investigation into the treatment of refugees sent back to Lebanon – including the husband and two children of a pregnant ...

About four per cent of Cypriots said they were affected by asthma in 2019, below the EU average of 5.7 per cent, a report by Eurostat showed on Friday. The EU average ...

Citing lack of progress in the case of two blind children who continue not to attend school, the Pancyprian Organisation for the Blind said on Friday that it would ask ...

Sea daffodils are in bloom on the beach in the fenced city of Famagusta, having sprouted up among the umbrellas and sunbeds that the authorities in the north have set ...

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Friday visited the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (Cing) with Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas, where she learned about the institute’s work and ...

For the first time in two decades, Eleftheria Square in Nicosia hosted the start of the Cyprus Rally on Friday evening but the usual razzmatazz was noticeably missing: due to ...

The health ministry announced 109 new cases of Covid-19 and no deaths on Friday. As there were no deaths, the total death toll remains at 550, of whom 350 were men and 200 women. ...

Cyprus aims to see electric cars make up at least one quarter of all newly registered vehicles per year by 2030, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said at the informal meeting of ...

The fire service is expected to be fully independent early next month after parliament approves a bill on employment terms, Justice Minister Stefi Drakou said on Friday. The minister was ...

President Nicos Anastasiades met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. In a written statement, the president said he had a “...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Friday underlined the importance of sports in schools during a visit to the Apostolos Markos Lyceum in Nicosia. Prodromou’s message came during European School ...