#Cyprus

The Magical Fairy Light Show, located in Petrides Farm Park, Marki offers visitors a unique experience, and due to popular demand will remain open until January 10. “With more than 500,000 lights, ...

The only approved app businesses and venues should use to check the validity of a SafePass is CovScanCyprus, the Ministry for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy said Tuesday. In a ...

On Monday and Tuesday Cyprus saw record numbers of daily Covid positives. The former reached almost 2,000, following a record number of tests, over 121,000. This was probably because people in various ...

A 53-year-old man was murdered in central Larnaca on Tuesday evening, police said. Police responded to reports of gunshots in the Touzhane area in central Larnaca late Tuesday night. The ...

Scientific checks have confirmed the bodies found buried in the garden of a holiday home in early December were indeed those of Alraeesi Khaiat, 43, and Mariia Gazibagandova, 33, police said on ...

The government has been transferring electricity to the north since last week to help meet needs during peak hours, it was reported on Tuesday. According to the Cyprus News Agency, ...

The health ministry announced 2,241 new cases of Covid-19 but no deaths on Tuesday. As there were no deaths, the total death toll remains 630, of whom 402 were men and 227 women. There ...

Seeking to facilitate parents and guardians of children aged 5 to 11, the health ministry said on Tuesday it will operate large vaccination centres for children in cooperation with the Society of ...

Members of the government’s coronavirus advisory team warned of a further rise in daily cases on Tuesday after Monday’s record-breaking spike, which saw them shoot up to nearly 2,000. ...

Conditions for patients and staff alike at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital are at breaking point, which could lead to a disaster, a nurses union warned on Tuesday. In a statement, ...

A 44-year-old man referred to trial at the criminal court for a hit-and-run fatality in Paphos earlier this month will remain in police custody until the start of proceedings on ...

Through food and culture, a YouTube channel looks at what it means to be from the island. Eleni Philippou meets the woman behind it Christmas is a time of family ...

After saying he would not veto a budget amendment that would see the dismissal of four presidential aides, President Nicos Anastasiades signalled on Thursday that the individuals in question would ...

Cyprus could hit 2,000 daily infections in the next few weeks once Omicron takes root, epidemiologist Michalis Voniatis said on Thursday, adding however that so far the variant appears to be ...

The Republic’s natural gas exploration programme will continue without interruption, President Nicos Anastasides said Thursday, as appraisal drilling by ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum was underway at an offshore field ...

A 30-year-old man has admitted to breaking into the home of the victim of Sunday’s hit-and-run and the case has been submitted to the district court, Paphos police deputy ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has reportedly sounded out a former foreign minister to return to his job, temporarily replacing Nikos Christodoulides who is thought to have aspirations for the presidency come 2023. ...

Larnaca is a step closer to getting the island’s biggest development project as an environmental impact study greenlighted the proposed €1.2bn port and marina. Planned to host cruise ships ...

The interior ministry on Tuesday defended government authorisation for a 10-storey building on Nicosia’s Kinyras avenue as Akel and the Greens scolded the government, citing objections from experts. The ...

No deaths from Covid-19 were recorded on Tuesday but 806 new infections were reported, the health ministry said as 176 people are in hospital receiving treatment for the virus. Of those in ...

Police have finalised their case against two men, brothers aged 33 and 44, involved in the murder of two Russian women and will face court on Wednesday. The case stems from a ...

Over the past five weeks, the highest number of coronavirus positives by age group belonged to the 6-17 bracket, the majority of all positives were tracked in the Nicosia district, ...

Condolences poured in from both sides of the divide for the death on Tuesday of the co-conductor of the Bicommunal Choir for Peace Lena Melanidou. “We lost our conductor Lena ...

A new wing will operate at the Eden Resort rehabilitation centre in Tersephanou for post-Covid patients, making Cyprus only the second EU country after Germany where such services are offered ...