Staff Reporter

A search and rescue operation was launched on Sunday afternoon to locate a missing kitesurfer off the coast of Maroni, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) said. According to the ...

By Richard Boxall The Cyprus Cricket Federation in cooperation with the International Cricket Council (ICC) will be organising a ICC Coach Level 2 course at Episkopi, Limassol. The course will be ...

Three more arrested over shooting of businessman Three more arrests were made in connection with the shooting of 49-year-old businessman Stavros Demosthenous, bringing the total number of arrests to four, ...

Monday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across the island, though with heightened dust in the atmosphere, and the possibility of sporadic increased cloud cover. Temperatures will rise ...

A 48-year-old man was arrested in the Famagusta district on Sunday after police discovered 860 grams of cannabis and 270 grams of cocaine at his home during a coordinated operation by the ...

Residents of Anarita staged a protest on Sunday over what they describe as serious accessibility problems caused by stalled roadworks in their community. According to the Coordinating Committee of the ...

Three volumes about a city totalling more than a thousand pages may appear over-long but not when it covers 37 centuries of history, starting from 1600BC. The three-volume work, titled Walking ...

Five people were arrested for various offences during coordinated police operations in Larnaca on Saturday night and early Sunday, police said. The checks were carried out as part of ongoing ...

A new community playground in Farmakas was officially inaugurated on Saturday by Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, marking what he described as “a meaningful investment in our children and in the ...

Police arrested a 19-year-old man in the early hours of Sunday after he was caught driving at 190km/h on the Limassol–Nicosia highway while under the influence of alcohol. ...

Police on Saturday night arrested a 44-year-old former footballer in connection with the murder of 49-year-old Stavros Demosthenous, which was committed on Friday morning in Limassol. The suspect was later ...

1.5 grams of cocaine and a sum of €760 in cash were found in the possession of a 22-year-old following an inspection outside a kiosk in Larnaca on Friday evening. According to ...

On Saturday, the weather will be mainly clear. Temperatures are expected to rise to around 28 degrees Celsius in the southern and eastern coastal areas, to around 25 degrees on the west ...

The office of the children’s right’s commissioner will have its budget increased by 23 per cent next year, its new commissioner Elena Pericleous said on Friday. Addressing the House ...

This is the kind of weekend that’s probably responsible for a lot of unhappy tourists! Why? Because our October visitors may go home and say: “No, no, Doreen! Cyprus ...

The Palestinian ambassador here on Thursday appealed to the Cypriot state to “immediately react” to the alleged beating up of a prominent Palestinian figure by his Israeli jailers. In a ...

Electricity supply to certain areas in Paphos will be interrupted next Monday due to maintenance work on the grid, the state-run power utility said on Thursday. The interruption will occur ...

In the centre of Cyprus — far from the island’s glittering coastline — stands a city unlike any other in Europe. Nicosia, or Lefkosia as locals refer to it, is the ...

On Cyprus’s southern shore, Larnaca greets the Mediterranean with an easy grace — neither boastful nor hurried, just quietly radiant. It’s a city that doesn’t need to shout ...

The civil registry and related online services, as well as the migration department, will be temporarily shut down on Friday from 1pm onwards for scheduled technical infrastructure upgrades, it was ...

The Cyprus tax department on Thursday announced that several of its online operations systems will not be accessible between 3pm and 7pm, due to a major computer system update. The ...

A 17-year-old boy was arrested in Limassol on suspicion of burglary, driving a stolen car, and possession of drugs, but not before driving the stolen car into a house, the ...

Thursday’s weather is expected to be dry, though there will be increased cloud cover across most of the island during the afternoon. Temperatures are set to rise to 28 degrees ...

The House legal committee’s discussion of a government-sponsored bill which aims to suppress violence at sports venues continued without a conclusion on Thursday, with committee chairman Nicos Tornaritis urging ...