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The social insurance services’ subsidised holiday scheme is set to get underway for the summer period on Sunday. The scheme will operate until September 29, with successful applicants to the scheme ...

A 30-year-old female British tourist was injured in the early hours of Friday morning after falling eight metres from a hotel room balcony in Paphos. She was taken to Paphos ...

The new deputy culture minister Vasiliki (Lina) Kassianidou was sworn in on Friday in a ceremony attended by President Nikos Christodoulides. At the ceremony, Kassianidou thanked Christodoulides for appointing her ...

Ninety per cent of the Paphos forest has been closed off from public access due to extreme fire risk, Forestry Department Director, Charalambos Alexandrou announced on Friday. “We are always ...

Diving into the ins and outs of music promotion, the music scene and the performing arts sector is what a new event has on its agenda. Taking over a quaint ...

A 50-year-old man was taken to Paphos general hospital late Thursday afternoon, after being injured by the collapse of the fireplace in his home. According to the police, the fireplace ...

In this episode, after a fiery debate in the House of Representatives on Thursday, the plenum voted down two bills which the government had warned could threaten the financial system ...

Issues concerning Famagusta residents, local authorities and entrepreneurs, were discussed at a meeting between Disy head Annita Demetriou and the board of the district’s tourism, commerce and entrepreneurial company (...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

Police on Thursday arrested a man for attempting to import cannabis through Paphos airport. According to police statement, the drug squad in cooperation with the customs department, prevented the attempt ...

Police on Thursday arrested a 35-year-old man for an investigated case of vehicle arson. According to the police, on Wednesday shortly before 4pm a 37-year-old woman reported that in the ...

Police in Paphos on Thursday carried out a coordinated operation to crack down on illegal and undeclared work and made two arrests. According to the police spokesman, Michalis Nikolaou, between ...

Police on Friday arrested two persons, aged 34 and 27, to facilitate the investigations into a case of importation and possession of illegal drugs with intent to supply. According to police statement, ...

Cypriot startup Revolutionary Labs recently held a special ceremony to commemorate the successful conclusion of the mediSKIN entrepreneurship innovation project. According to an announcement, the event, which was held at ...

Three men believed to have been the captains of boats carrying 33 migrants, were remanded in Famagusta district court for seven days on Friday. Police said it had secured testimonies that ...

An orange alert for extremely high temperatures has been issued on Friday by the meteorological service, while the forestry department has also issued a red alert for fire risk. The ...

During his speech at The Economist business conference on the Eastern Mediterranean held in New York this week, Constantinos Herodotou, the Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), emphasised ...

The church of Agios Georgios in the Karpasia area, has undergone conservation works, as announced by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage. The event was attended by members of the ...

The House on Thursday passed a law that fast-tracks ‘strategic investments’ and regulates licensing procedures and timeframes, but some MPs decried the discretionary powers given to the minister and senior ...

Despite complaining about wasteful expenditures, MPs on Thursday gave the nod to the government’s second supplementary budget for fiscal year 2023. The €361 million budget bill passed with 45 votes for, and ...

In a just-published report on Thursday, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) said that persons being returned ...

Firefighters rushed to battle a blaze that broke out at around 1.40pm in the courtyard of a Polemidia residence in Limassol. The courtyard was shared with three other residences. Thankfully, ...

An amendment to the Refugee law drafted by Elam, which will mean that all asylum seekers who refuse to consent to medical examinations to determine their age will be presumed ...

As part of an ongoing series of workshops at Goethe-Institut, KENO Publications and Atlantis Culture present one more morning of poetry. Under the Performance Poetry 101 workshops, July 15’s session will ...