Archive 2024

A 24-year-old food delivery worker was remanded in custody for four days by the Limassol district court on charges related to illegal possession of drugs, the distribution of counterfeit currency ...

BidX1, the online auction specialist, has announced that it will hold an auction of Cypriot real estate on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, offering property hunters a wide selection of investment opportunities across ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou, sang the praises of Athienou village as she reaffirmed the government’s commitment to developing Cyprus’ rural economy by strengthening rural businesses and communities. Speaking at ...

The use of tools to find or pick mushrooms is prohibited, the forestry department said on Monday ahead of the mushroom picking season. Those caught using tools to find or ...

Cyprus’ doesn’t really care for walking. It was different a century ago. The first petrol car (a Peugeot Type 69 Bebe, should you be interested) arrived on the island in 1907, ...

Resigning in the wake of a convicted murderer’s escape under police guard would be a cowardly move that would only satisfy populism, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Monday. ...

Environment commissioner, Antonia Theodosiou, said the government was committed to the financial support of the wine industry. Speaking at the Afamia – Grape Festival in Koilani, of behalf of the president, ...

US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live, the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is in a “position of strength” ahead of his informal dinner with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said ...

Pope Francis criticised on Monday what he called the “shameful inability” of the international community to end the war in the Middle East, one year after Hamas’ devastating attack on ...

The government aims to bring a bill to reform pensions before cabinet by the end of 2025, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Monday. Speaking after a meeting with the labour ...

“God save the Tsar!” was one of the first public birthday wishes for President Vladimir Putin who turns 72 on Monday and who has been Russia’s paramount leader for nearly ...

Paphos district court ruled on Monday that the 26-year-old accomplice of convicted murderer Doros Theofanous, who escaped while on a visit to his family in Choletria, remain in custody until ...

The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation’s (BoCCF’s) series of events “Moments at the Museum ’24” will launch this year’s activities with the interactive family workshop “Camila Kamilari, let’...

The sudden inflows in the crypto sector, notably in Bitcoin and Ethereum, revived investors’ hopes globally. Many analysts predict a bullish reversal in October, and any potential sentiment changes keep ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos travelled to New York ahead of the election of members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the ministry announced on Monday. Cyprus is a candidate ...

“Leave the gun, take the canolli,” says the mobster to his partner, moments after carrying out an execution. This bone-chilling scene from The Godfather will forever be etched in our ...

PwC Cyprus is announcing the launch of PwC’s Academy Business Professionals Certificate (BPC) this October. Developed in partnership with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), ...

Ongoing and unacceptable dangers faced by their staff are a grave issue, nurses’ union Pasyno said on Monday, laying the blame with the ministries of labour and justice as well ...

Tech firms have warned that soaring rents for offices – higher in some cases than in London and Amsterdam – were threatening Cyprus’ ambition to become a tech hub. The rising cost ...

Russian state media company VGTRK has been targeted in an unprecedented cyberattack, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, saying that specialists were working hard to determine who was responsible. ...

A former Russian deputy defence minister arrested in April for bribery is facing new charges of embezzling more than 3.2 billion roubles ($33.4 million), sent to the accounts of companies in Hong ...

Water being pumped to the north from Turkey was completely cut off from the north’s water supply due to ongoing power cuts in the area near the Panagra reservoir, ...

Cyprus airspace is safe and passengers do not need to fear travelling to the island, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said. The Republic is strictly enforcing any updates it receives from ...