Cyprus authorities are on alert for the new COVID-19 Omicron variant and assure the public that situation is being monitored. On Sunday the Health Minister, Michalis Hadjipantelas, and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Christina Yiannaki, had a meeting with the management of the State Health Services Organization (SHSO) and the Directors of General Hospitals […]
Cyprus has redefined its tourism offering to satisfy a changing market, deputy tourist minister Savvas Perdios told British tour operators as he struck an upbeat note for 2022. Speaking at a working dinner in central London to a group of some 30 tour operators primarily of specialised forms of tourism, and travel journalists, Perdios said […]
Pope Francis is arranging to transfer a number of migrants to Italy from the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus, where he is opening a three-day visit next week, a Cypriot government official said on Thursday.Government spokesman Marios Pelekanos told The Associated Press the Vatican is now making the arrangements with Cypriot authorities. There are […]
Cyprus regained recently 38 of its antiquities. The Department of Antiquities of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, has announced that on the 11th November 2021, 38 antiquities belonging to various prehistoric and historic periods, were handed over to the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Washington, USA, by Katherine Grayson Wilkins, who […]
The Vatican will build an Embassy in Cyprus.
AKEL on the President’s statements on Crans Montana. How everyone on the domestic front interprets the UN memos on the meetings at the Crans Montana conference is of little importance. The crucial importance lies in how the UN and the Secretary General of the UN himself assess the stand of the parties involved at Crans […]
A press release from the Ministry of Defence said on Sunday that Minister Charalambos Petrides has been invited by his Greek counterpart Nikos Panagiotopoulos to watch the final phase of the Joint Aeronautical Exercise “MEDUSA 11” that will take place on Monday, 22 November, in Crete, in the framework of the Trilateral Cooperation between Greece, […]
Turkey has never discussed or accepted the abolition of the 1960 Treaty of Guarantee, President of the Republic Nicos Anastasiades said Saturday, commenting on a series of leaked documents concerning the 2017 UN-brokered negotiations over a Cyprus settlement in Crans Montana, Switzerland that ended in a deadlock.
Larnaka Tourism Board (LTB) and the Youth Board of Cyprus (ONEK) have received an international award for promoting Larnaka and Cyprus with their joint project, the video ‘Ancient Port of Kition 3D Virtual Reconstruction’. The award was presented by the International Confederation ‘The Phoenicians’ Route of the Council of Europe’, in the category ‘Innovative and […]
Tourist arrivals in Cyprus marked their highest monthly reading since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic in October 2021, with total arrivals for January – October 2021 reaching 1.69 million, lagging significantly behind the pre-covid levels.
