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Electricity prices will not be coming down for the foreseeable future By Elias Hazou Electricity prices will not be coming down for the foreseeable future due to a perfect storm ...

One death and 295 new coronavirus cases were announced on Saturday out of 55,492 tests with a positivity rate of 0.53 per cent. The death concerns a 77-year-old man who died on Friday ...

The first Intergovernmental Summit between Cyprus and Egypt was described as “historic” by President Nicos Anastasiades who laid the groundwork for closer ties on Saturday with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel ...

The health ministry announced the rapid testing sites for Sunday, 35 in total. Presenting an ID, passport or driver’s licence is necessary to get tested. Districts Testing Sites Work Hours ...

The In the Fight Against Cancer campaign, organised by the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Society and Bank of Cyprus (BOC) will run until September 12, with the holding of fundraisers island wide. “We ...

A 12-month-old baby who had symptoms of the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), which is linked with coronavirus, has been intubated in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the ...

A soldier serving at the British bases died in a road accident early on Saturday on the Kolossi to Akrtotiri road while two others who were in the same vehicle ...

If Greek Cypriots start drilling in the eastern Mediterranean Turkey will too, Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay announced. Oktay had a meeting on Friday in Ankara with Turkish Cypriot leader ...

President Nicos Anastasiades arrived in Cairo on Saturday for the first Intergovernmental Summit between the two states taking pace in the Egyptian capital. He was welcomed at the airport by ...

Delta continues to be the dominant Covid-19 variant in Cyprus, the health ministry said on Saturday after the latest sequencing results on samples of people found positive for the virus ...

A 47-year-old man died and three others were injured after a head-on collision early on Saturday in Kato Moni, police said. Doros Fterousios from Nicosia was driving on the Arediou-Ayios ...

The government will continue supporting economic activity so that after the pandemic is over, previous positive growth rates will return, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Saturday. In a written ...

Alix Norman meets the founder of Cyprus’ first Christian record label, a young man who hopes to inspire peace, love and hope through gospel music Robavine Azangu was born in ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) presented its annual report for the previous year to the President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades. The presentation of the report ...

If the Turkish side changes the status of Varosha, then it will be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to reach a Cyprus settlement, the Ambassador of Greece to Cyprus, Theocharis ...

Police fined 39 individuals and seven businesses in the past 24 hours for breaking Covid decrees. Most of the fines on individuals were related to not wearing a face covering. In all 3,644 ...

On the day that the Cabinet decided to start administering a third Covid vaccine dose, we asked a selection of people on the streets of Nicosia if they’ll be ...

European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) representatives will begin their post-memorandum inspection of the Cypriot economy on September 13 and conclude the process on September 22. The inspection, which will include ...

DeFi, decentralised finance, is the fastest-growing market in the cryptocurrency universe. More than $61 billion worth of trades have been executed in the market, up from about $15 billion at the start ...

A ceiling on fuel prices is not justified, according to the state consumer protection service, which rejected opposition claims that price hikes in Cyprus were higher than other countries. The ...

The health ministry will look into ways to help sufferers of ‘long-Covid’ once studies on the syndrome are complete, health minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said on Friday. ‘Long-Covid’ is a term ...

The health ministry announced four deaths and 238 cases of Covid-19 on Friday. The deceased are all men, three of whom died on Thursday and one on Friday. An 85-year-old man ...

Eighty per cent of school staff have received the Covid vaccine Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday during a House committee briefing. Prodromou said vaccination would work as an ...

The University of Cyprus physics department wants stricter protection from the coronavirus in the new school year, disagreeing with the senate’s decision to allow unvaccinated students and staff in ...