People not responding to recalls to lose MOT
The House commerce committee heard on Tuesday that vehicles with parts deemed faulty or unsafe will be called in to retest for an MOT if the owner fails to make ...
Deputy minister calls for better laws regulating personal helpers
Deputy Welfare Minister Maria Evangelou called for the institutionalisation of personal helpers for people with disabilities on Tuesday.
Speaking to the House Labour Committee, she called for legislation to be ...
Cyprus tourist arrivals up in September
A total of 487,350 tourists arrived in Cyprus in September, the Cyprus Statistical Service said on Tuesday, an increase of 17.9 per cent over the previous year.
From January to September 2023, the ...
Cyprus government focused on digital transformation and innovation, officials say
The priorities of the government are intertwined with the commitment to incorporate technology and digitisation into its policies, stated Undersecretary to the President, Irene Piki, on Tuesday, a sentiment echoed ...
SBA, police negotiators joint training
Negotiators from the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) police and the Cyprus police underwent refresher training alongside the Cyprus police,s emergency response unit (MMAD), the British Bases said on Tuesday.
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Larnaca Airport receives top honours at Routes World 2023
Hermes Airports, the company managing both of Cyprus’ international airports, on Tuesday announced that Larnaca Airport claimed the top spot in the highly competitive category for airports with 5-10 million ...
Man imprisoned after travelling on fake British passport
A man who travelled from the Republic to the north and then to Turkey using a counterfeit British passport was sentenced to a year in prison in the north on ...
Driver error, not road quality, behind accidents in the north
The idea of road quality being a major contributing factor to road traffic incidents in the north was rubbished on Tuesday by its ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli.
Speaking in ‘parliament’, ...
Wizz launches more flights to Poland
Commercial airline Wizz Air has launched a new route connecting Larnaca airport with the Polish city of Radom, it announced on Tuesday.
Flights to Radom, located approximately 100 kilometres south of ...
Christodoulides critical of EU role in Gaza crisis
Cyprus is the EU’s closest member state to the ongoing crisis in neighbouring Israel, but President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said he does not see the bloc taking a ...
Proposed changes to annual corporate levy spark political debate
The Finance Ministry is preparing a study to revise the laws surrounding the annual corporate levy, said a spokesperson for the Ministry of Finance in the parliamentary Trade Committee, with ...
Uniting nations through culture
Both Cyprus and China have wide ranges of cultural heritage, bringing them together and influencing countries around the world finds PAUL LAMBIS
For centuries, China and Cyprus have been countries ...
Presidential palace to become ‘beacon of ecological awareness’
The Presidential palace “seeks to be a beacon of ecological awareness”, First lady Philippa Karsera Christodoulides said on Tuesday launching a campaign to reduce landfill waste.
The overall aim appears ...
Anti-War protest to take place in Nicosia on Friday
An anti-war protest is set to take place in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria Square on Friday evening.
The event, at 6.30pm, has been organised by the Cyprus Peace Council, which ...
Syrian to be sentenced over Chlorakas incidents
Paphos court is to announce sentence against the 47-year-old Syrian man who threatened to “turn Paphos upside down” in relation to the Chlorakas incidents during the summer on October 30.
The 47...
Mother sentenced to 12 months after daughter drowns
A 42-year-old woman was sentenced to 12 months in prison by the Paphos district court on Tuesday, after her 10-year-old daughter drowned in the swimming pool of their villa in the ...
Procopiou meets scientists to boost forensic technology
Justice Minister Anna Procopiou met with scientists from the forensic laboratory of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (Cing) on Monday with the aim of boosting forensic technology to ...
Paphos mayor outraged over another squalid migrant block
Migrants living in a condemned apartment building without electricity or water has been cleared after the Paphos mayor intervened and expressed his outrage over the situation.
“It’s situations such ...
Third lewd videos on north’s ‘agriculture ministry’ Facebook page (update 2)
A third lewd video involving Japanese women appeared on the official Facebook page of the north’s ‘agriculture ministry’ at around midday on Tuesday.
The video, the most explicit yet, ...
First passengers arrive from Haifa at Limassol port (update 3)
Forty-five of the passengers who arrived from Haifa at Limassol port early on Tuesday morning have already been transferred to Larnaca airport.
They were among a group of 159 evacuees that ...
Pro-Israel protest to take place in Larnaca
An event entitled “Cyprus Stands with Israel” is set to take place in Larnaca on Tuesday afternoon.
The event is set to begin at 5pm outside the Cyprus Central Synagogue.
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Father and son run over outside Paphos primary school
A father and son were run over by a car outside a primary school in Paphos on Tuesday morning.
According to police, the father and son were attempting to cross ...
‘We have returned to the status quo in Pyla’ (updated)
The situation in Pyla has “returned to the status quo before the illegal actions of the Turkish army which led to the incidents with the peacekeepers”, President Nikos Christodoulides said ...
Psychology Week at Biennale explores memory and nostalgia
The doors to Larnaca Biennale 2023 have opened and its first themed week is here focusing on Home and the mind, the psyche. The parallel events of Psychology Week – the first ...