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There will be no special treatment for people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios said on Tuesday, stressing that the country is open to ...

President Nicos Anastasiades testified under oath on Tuesday that he never favoured any foreign investor seeking a Cypriot passport, and denied any conflict of interest or quid pro quo in ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday the citizenship by investment programme will not be returning but other incentives will be offered to attract investors. Anastasiades was speaking after testifying before ...

Amid concern over the South African variant of the coronavirus, advisory committee member Petros Karayiannis said on Tuesday that screening at the airports was the best way to keep it ...

The approximately 300 vaccinations scheduled for Tuesday at the Latsia health centre in Nicosia where an explosion occurred on Monday evening will not be affected, the health ministry announced. No one ...

Concerns over what are now valuable Cypriot artworks that lay locked away within a former nightclub in Varosha have surfaced after the city’s controversial partial reopening last year. The ...

After almost two years of political bickering and accusations flying in all directions the notorious Georghadji List, naming politically exposed persons (PEPs) and others with non-performing loans (NPLs) was posted ...

Paphos has won another European award, the local tourism board has announced. The Paphos Regional Board of Tourism has been awarded, ‘Best Strategy in Creative Tourism Development 2020’, by the creative ...

The House interior committee appears to favour harsher punishments for people smugglers and their accomplices, chairperson Eleni Mavrou said on Monday. MPs discussed the proposed changes to the law upgrading ...

Three people have died from Covid in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Monday, as 120 new infections were detected from 27,248 tests, a positivity rate of 0.44 per cent. The ...

Lawmakers on Monday said the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) must remain a public utility, but urged the state-run power corporation to give back to taxpayers by reducing the cost ...

The state health services organisation (Okypy) said on Monday it would launch a probe into claims that a man, 80, who died of coronavirus in hospital on Sunday had earlier been ...

The attorney-general asked the chief of police on Monday to immediately launch an investigation into claims of match fixing in the third division. The case concerns a report by the ...

The government on Monday unveiled a series of upcoming schemes aimed at supporting businesses and helping them transition to the circular economy, with planned government disbursements of some €90 million for 2021. “...

The health ministry announced that Covid screenings for people returning to work next Monday will start on Tuesday, February 2. The mandatory tests include people working in the retail sector, museums ...

Over 43,000 beneficiaries of the national health scheme (Gesy) have received inpatient care since its launch, the health insurance organisation (HIO) told the health minister in a conference call on Monday. ...

The church-sanctioned bulldozing of four listed buildings in old Nicosia on Monday has been widely condemned, with the municipality demanding the archbishopric rebuild them. The buildings on Isokratous Street were ...

The European Commission has approved Cyprus’ €10.2 million Cypriot scheme to support self-employed and businesses affected by the coronavirus outbreak, it was announced on Monday. The scheme, which includes direct grants ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to visit Cyprus within the coming days for consultations with President Nicos Anastasiades ahead of the informal five-party summit to be convened by ...

The first phase of easing restrictive measures started on Monday morning as people returning to work have tested for the coronavirus. Barbershops, hairdressers and beauty salons will reopen. There is ...

Professor Leontios Kostrikis has resigned from the advisory committee on coronavirus, a health ministry spokesperson confirmed on Monday. Kostrikis, head of the University of Cyprus’ laboratory of biotechnology and molecular ...

Police in anti-riot gear gathered outside the Pournara migrant reception centre on Monday morning after residents there staged a protest calling for permission to leave the premises. The migrants said ...

The term ‘starving artist’ has taken on a whole new layer of meaning In an open letter published last Friday, Limassol’s Pattihio theatre director Vasos Argyridis extended an apology ...

The health ministry on Sunday announced two deaths and 106 new cases of Covid-19 from 28,364 PCR and rapid tests with a positivity rate of 0.37 per cent. The deaths concerned a man ...