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From 6am on Tuesday until 6am on Wednesday police carried out 10,590 checks for breaches of coronavirus protocols and fined 168 individuals, including two business owners, for violations. The businesses concern a ...

Supposedly protected coastal areas are being nibbled away by development Uncontrolled development is destroying natural habitats and all that is unique about the island, environmentalists say. Nowhere more so than ...

The Paphos regional board of tourism is looking towards the domestic market to kickstart the sector and expects the government to give the green light to lift restrictive measures put ...

The House commerce committee is trying to afford small businesses protection from unfair terms and conditions included in standard bank contracts through a bill on consumer protection, MPs said on ...

The EastMed pipeline could be in place within five years, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Tuesday, describing it as an extremely important project. “In Israel we have a ...

Nicosia on Tuesday welcomed EU High Representative Josep Borrell’s comments which emphasise that “the Cyprus problem is clearly an EU problem”. Government Spokesman Kyriacos Koushos referenced Borrell’s comments ...

The fourth ministerial meeting of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) on Tuesday saw France become a member and the US join as an observer. Attended by Energy Minister Natasa ...

The health ministry announced 420 new cases on Tuesday from a total of 34,799 tests, a positivity rate of 1.21 per cent, although no new deaths were reported. The total number of deaths ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris visited a migrant and refugee camp Samos on Tuesday, during his two-day visit in Greece. The minister was accompanied by Asylum Seekers Reception General Secretary Manos ...

Italy strongly rejects any attempt to secure a solution to the Cyprus problem that is outside the scope of UN agreements and decisions, the country’s foreign minister Luigi Di ...

Parliament had no role in the approval of citizenships as part of Cyprus’ controversial investment programme, its director told an inquiry on Tuesday. Socratis Socratous said parliament staff had no ...

A group of Nicosia residents spend last Sunday morning cleaning up Pedieos riverbed, following reports of large amounts of rubbish dumped in the area. Large pieces of wood, plastic and ...

Rapid test prices fell between October and February as a result of the government stimulating competition through tenders, the health ministry said on Tuesday. In a statement, the ministry said ...

Cautious optimism following President Nicos Anastasiades’ morning meeting with the coronavirus advisory team for the next phase of gradual relaxations was brought into question later on Tuesday when the health ...

A total of 58 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Wednesday the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

Customs seized eight vehicles in February, most for them for using coloured diesel and one for the illegal transport of duty-free tobacco products from the north, it said on Tuesday. ...

Applications opened on Tuesday for a scheme that will cover up to 60 per cent of upgrades to make homes more energy efficient. The Scheme for Promoting Saving and Upgrading Residences ...

Beer sales for the local market declined by an annual 38 per cent in the period January–February 2021 with exports soaring 84 per cent compared with the same period last year. According ...

The Animal Party is calling on people to stop abandoning their pets in fields after a dog disrupted traffic in Limassol-Nicosia motorway early on Tuesday. Following a police announcement about ...

A 28-day-old baby diagnosed with Covid-19 is currently being treated at Makarios hospital in Nicosia, director of the paediatric ward Avraam Elia confirmed on Tuesday. The child was admitted to ...

Cyprus is not planning any actions as regards the AstraZeneca vaccine and will wait for official results of an investigation into a batch that Austria stopped using following a death ...

After a nine-year impasse, Israel and Cyprus on Tuesday reached an understanding over gas reserves straddling their maritime border in a development hailed as a “breakthrough” by Israel’s energy ...

Several items and a quantity of cash totalling over €200,000 were stolen from a house in Yermasoyia, near Limassol, police said on Tuesday. According to the 25-year-old owner of the house, ...

Nicosia water board announced that there would be water cuts in Tseri municipality on Wednesday due to repair works of a pipe at the Mazera pumping station. The board apologised ...