Archive 2023

“Fairies, princes and princesses, knights, pixies, pirates and superheroes, gather round,” says CyHerbia Botanical Park & Labyrinth as it prepares to host another edition of its annual Fairy Festival. The ...

Archbishop Giorgios in his first Easter message, placed a heavy focus on the national issue, the ‘Turkification’ of the island and the influx of ‘Muslim immigrants’ channeled to the island ...

Police said on Saturday they had found around 10kg of cannabis hidden in 11 separate bags, hidden under grass at different spots in a rural part of Nicosia. The find began ...

By Gavin Jones Ever since I can remember, I’ve been addicted to films and have watched many hundreds – if not thousands. I’ve always been astonished at the way ...

Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides this week spoke on the city’s efforts to prepare for a busy tourist summer season, particularly in terms of visitors arriving on cruise ships. According ...

A 17-year-old was in intubated and is in critical condition after his motorcycle collided with a car in Xylofagou on Friday afternoon. The driver of the car, aged 72, who tested ...

Two men were injured and several arrested after an assault involving a number of people in Nicosia on Friday. Police said that they had received information about a fracas outside ...

Paphos police arrested a 22-year-old late on Friday after they found a cache of low-level explosives in his possession. According to police, the arrest came about after a search warrant ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission CySEC this week announced its decision to impose a fine of €1 million on the Cyprus Investment Firm Itrade Global (Cy) Ltd. According to an ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has signed into law a bill to raise the state pension age that sparked mass protests, the government’s official journal showed on Saturday. The proclamation ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) reported this week that its January 2023 Bank Loan Survey had recorded stricter lending criteria for all categories of loans, resulting in reduced supply and ...

A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air National Guard accused of leaking top secret military intelligence records online was charged on Friday with unlawfully copying and transmitting classified material. ...

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday expressed a desire to deepen and upgrade their ties as Washington seeks to solidify ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unhurt after a suspect threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb at an outdoor speech in western Japan on Saturday, domestic media ...

Paphos plans to strengthen its tourism industry through development and innovation, according to Kyriakos Drousiotis, chairman of the district’s regional board of tourism (Etap). Drousiotis emphasised the agency’s ...

Police, members of public struggle to deal with unruly gangs of teenagers Youth criminality in Cyprus has become a social problem being dealt with across the island, as incidents across ...

Cyprus’ natural gas reserves, ever since the first discovery in the Aphrodite field in September 2011, have been politically, never commercially, exploited. Politicians never skipped an opportunity to tell us about ...

One more performance presented by the Nicosia International Festival will arrive this month bringing an adaptation of Frank McGuinness’ play Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me. The Irish dramatist’s ...

A 23-year-old man was found guilty of threatening behaviour on Friday after throwing at least five eggs at King Charles in November when the monarch visited York in northern England, ...

Widespread blackouts in the north are continuing, while a tense situation arose between employees of the Turkish Cypriot El-Sen union, and the private Turkish company Aksa, which the ‘government’ instructed ...

Trading and investing platform eToro said on Thursday it has partnered with Elon Musk-led Twitter to let users access real-time prices of cryptocurrencies, stocks and other assets, and to enable ...

The 5th edition of the CASSINI Hackathon, which was organised by the non-governmental organisation C.I.P Citizens In Power in Cyprus, was held under the auspices of the Cyprus ...

The deadliest earthquake in Turkey’s modern history has reawakened fears on the other side of the country that Istanbul is an even bigger disaster waiting to happen, sending hundreds ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ pick for board member in the public service commission (Edy) resigned only a day after being appointed to the job when his academic credentials were called into ...