Cyprus

According to a 2019 report from Imperial College London, a very important factor in mitigating climate change is changing our individual lifestyles, but this goes beyond reduce, reuse, recycle. The world ...

The House finance committee has decided to set up an ad hoc committee to examine 13 different bills on foreclosures with the main aim of finding a common approach to the ...

Over 6,000 tonnes of halloumi remain unsold as a result of the coronavirus, cheesemakers and cattle farmers said on Tuesday, highlighting a score of problems for both industries. Halloumi exports have ...

The tender competition for the redevelopment of Lady’s Mile beach in Limassol is expected to be announced towards the end of 2022, it was announced on Tuesday. The issue of ...

By Jonathan Shkurko and Nick Theodoulou The health ministry rolled back controversial requirements imposed on restaurants, bars and cafés on Tuesday after business owners expressed dismay and some measures ...

Energy Minister Natasa Pilides visited a listed building, which is being renovated in accordance with a new energy efficiency programme, to promote the Economising – Upgrading Households plan on Tuesday. “The ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday night criticised groups of people in Limassol for not complying with the Covid-19 health decrees, in an address to the nation. “It is with great ...

The health ministry announced one death and 475 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, with a positivity rate of 0.99 per cent, taking Cyprus past the 40,000 cases mark. The death concerns a 73-year-old ...

A 30-year-old man on Tuesday confessed that he attended a party at a house in Paphos despite coronavirus restrictions, while a woman is due in court on Wednesday for attending ...

Downtown Nicosia was in a cheerful mood on Tuesday morning as bars, cafés and restaurants welcomed customers for the first time in months. As staff carried out the finishing ...

The rapid test locations for Wednesday have been announced by the health ministry, the first day after restaurants, cafes and bars reopening to the public after months of being closed. ...

The creation of a deputy ministry for culture was described as an “historic moment” by Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Tuesday. A bill for the creation of a deputy ministry ...

A Greens candidate MP has been referred to the party’s disciplinary council after hurling insults on social media at Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis, it emerged on Tuesday. Party head ...

The British government is to invest significantly in the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus, and other Overseas Territories (OT) according to a 100-page strategy, Global Britain in a Competitive Age, ...

The European Commission has set a date to vote on the PDO status of halloumi, spokeswoman Miriam Garcia Ferrer said on Tuesday with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar saying an ...

Russian tourists are expected to be welcome in Cyprus as of April 1, according to sources close to the deputy ministry of tourism. Phillip Orphanides contributed to this article. Tourism operators ...

One of the government’s scientific team said on Tuesday he expected restrictions would be lifted by the end of April. Dr Petros Karayiannis, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Virology ...

Political leaders in their majority said they would accompany President Nicos Anastasiades to the informal five-party summit set to take place next month in Geneva to support and advise him, ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Tuesday he had launched a series of contacts with parties in a bid to secure the maximum possible consensus so that the local government ...

In 2020, some 20.6 per cent of the EU population was aged 65 years or over; 3 percentage points higher than the corresponding share from a decade earlier, Eurostat reported on Tuesday. In Cyprus, 16.3 ...

Police are investigating the theft of jewellery worth €4,000 from a house in Paphos. A 70-year-old woman reported to police on Tuesday the jewellery was stolen from her home in Moutallos, ...

Port workers employed by DP World who began an indefinite strike on Tuesday over layoffs agreed after a labour ministry intervention to call off their action and begin a dialogue ...

It has been decided to buy an amount of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine once it will be approved by the European Medicines Agency, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos told state ...

Some 208 coronavirus patients are currently in public hospitals, while another 800 are treated in state hospitals for other illnesses, with the result that more than 80 per cent of the beds are ...