Cyprus

Pig farmers pay the price as year of lockdowns has compounded existing problems Throughout the past year of pandemic disruption, Cyprus seems to have been little impacted in terms of ...

A motorist was arrested on Sunday for speeding after being caught driving at 197kph on the highway. The man was arrested, charged and released after police nabbed him on the ...

The Animal Party said on Sunday it had joined a campaign with other European animal welfare organisations against the transport of live animals inside and outside the EU. The party ...

With the chance of negotiations again becoming a reality, who is the man who leads the Turkish Cypriots? Agnieszka Rakoczy says he is seen as fast minded and innovative but ...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides is travelling to Brussels to participate in the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union, which takes place on Monday. During the Council, the foreign ministers ...

President Nicos Anastasiades and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have agreed that the EU needs to be represented at the informal meeting on Cyprus, which will be called ...

Three DJs and 14 other people were found at a “secret illegal club” in Larnaca on Saturday night, police said. The patrons of the establishment and the DJs were fined 300 euros ...

Booster vaccines to combat emerging Covid variants, and annual jabs for coronavirus can’t be ruled out, according to a government scientific adviser. Dr Christos Petrou, Associate Professor at the ...

The ‘vaccination passport’ deal reached with Israel last Sunday for Israeli travellers to Cyprus cannot be replicated with other countries at the moment, according to Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas ...

Health authorities announced 107 new coronavirus infections on Saturday from 31,755 tests, a positivity rate of 0.34 per cent, but no new deaths were recorded. Seventy-seven people were being treated in hospital with 22 ...

The ministry of health on Saturday announced 55 testing points for Sunday. District Location Time Limassol Ayios Ioannis Eleimonos church 9.30 a.m.-6 p.m. Panos Solomonides cultural centre 9.30 a.m....

Several thousand people marched in Nicosia on Saturday in a protest against state corruption and pandemic restrictions that ended peacefully, unlike a similar event last week, which ended in violence. ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘health minister’ Ali Pilli has been dismissed, reports said Saturday. Pilli was replaced by Unal Ustel, who until Saturday was ‘transport minister.’ The ‘transport ministry’ went to Resmiye ...

A court convening at Nicosia general hospital on Saturday renewed a remand order for a man accused of killing his wife and son for another eight days. The 59-year-old was ...

Hundreds of officers will be deployed in Nicosia and Limassol on Saturday to oversee protests considered high-risk following trouble during a demonstration in the capital last week where police were ...

To date, 19,221 people have received both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine and 37,570 were given the first dose, with most being elderly, the health ministry said on Saturday. Close to 43,000 vaccinations ...

Police reported 97 people and one establishment in the past 24 hours, while enforcing health and safety decrees issued by the government to stop the spread of the coronavirus. According to the ...

There’s lots of dudes with signs that have become something of an Instagram phenomenon but, here in Cyprus, it’s all about @cypriotwithsign: the young man who’s gaining ...

Two men and a woman in Nicosia were remanded in police custody for six days on Saturday in connection with possession of 1.5 kilos of cocaine and 625 grammes of crystal meth. ...

The most prevalent variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Cyprus at the moment is B.1.258, accounting for 90 per cent of infections since December last year, according to a study that was presented ...

The health ministry announced one death and 111 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday. The death concerned a 75-year-old woman with underlying conditions at Limassol hospital. Her brings the total number ...

The health ministry announced that 58 rapid test sites will operate nationwide on Saturday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and the obligatory weekly testing of employees. Self-employed ...

Reversing an earlier decision of a lower court, the Supreme Court on Friday approved the extradition of a Russian citizen to Russia where he is wanted for alleged serious offences, ...

Nicosia is cautiously optimistic ahead of an informal conference on Cyprus, government spokesman Kyriacos Koushos said, reiterating that Greek Cypriots rejected a two-state system as a solution, which is favoured ...