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Four companies licensed by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) banked with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank, the two US banks which recently collapsed, according to statements ...

House speaker Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday that the parliament had sent a letter of protest to the Bahrain parliament, following images that surfaced showing the ‘TRNC’ flag at an ...

Free dental checks will be available across all districts’ general hospitals on March 20 as the health ministry seeks to raise awareness of oral hygiene. Free oral hygiene checks will also ...

A bill on rolling out body cams on police officers and their vehicles is rife with “contradictions, inconsistencies and has serious potential for being unconstitutional”, Akel MP Aristos Damianou said ...

Between 60,000 and 100,000 people in Cyprus are estimated to be suffering from long Covid-19, the federation of patients’ associations (Osak) said on Wednesday as it announced the publication of manuals to ...

An ancient grave with two skeletons and vases were uncovered in Limassol on Wednesday as part of the ongoing anti-flooding roadworks. The find has been attributed as belonging to the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met separately with UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo on Wednesday, in efforts to find a way forward in stalled Cyprus problem negotiations. ...

The health ministry on Wednesday issued new advice on booster vaccinations against Covid-19 for adults. The health ministry’s national advisory committee on vaccination recommended the use of VidPrevtyn Beta ...

Firecrackers are neither toys nor are they a tradition, the police stated on Wednesday as they announced heightened clampdown efforts in the lead-up to Easter. The warning came shortly after ...

The government should take measures to relieve low-income households hit by inflation, Peo trade union said while the consumer protection service said prices last month showed a drop in the ...

A naked man who approached a woman in Ayia Napa was arrested four days later but attacked and bit police officers during his arrest. The case first emerged on March 10 ...

About 30 flights to and from Cyprus will be hit by a 24-hour nationwide strike in Greece, estimated to impact almost 3,000 travellers. Flights to and from Greek airports will be grounded ...

A 32-year-old man on Wednesday was handed a three-year jail sentence by Limassol district court after being found guilty of causing a triple fatal car accident in 2017 that ended the ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested after a 43-year-old reported being defrauded out of €200,000 in an alleged cryptocurrency scam, police said on Wednesday. According to Limassol police, on February 21 the ...

National flag carrier Cyprus Airways on Wednesday announced its winter flight schedule for 2023, during which it will be flying to 13 destinations with 51 weekly flights. According to the announced schedule, the ...

Larnaca municipality is again participating in Earth Hour which will take place on March 25 between 8.30-9.30pm, calling on the public to join in, too. The municipality announced that those ...

Not all politicians are the same, finds THEO PANAYIDES after meeting the man given a baptism of fire after the financial meltdown of 2013. He finds an outward looking, low-key former ...

A 3.9 Magnitude earthquake struck 16km southeast of Paphos at 8:27am on Wednesday, with the quake being felt slightly in Limassol district. The agriculture ministry’s geological survey department announced the ...

In today’s episode, Cyprus-based Indie gaming company Apella Games has won a major battle against tech giant Apple Inc., which tried to block the startup from registering its name ...

NiMAC’s (Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation) upcoming show directs the public’s gaze toward the moving image. We Can Only Begin To Notice presents a ...

Cyprus repatriated 20 third country nationals as the state took part in a coordinated EU-wide effort with Frontex. Tuesday’s repatriations raise the total number of third country nationals relocated this ...

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has reverberated around the world, sending shockwaves through the global economy, with numerous companies in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region being directly ...

Climate and social justice organisations come together in Nicosia By Josef Boraei and Myrto Skouroupathi Various initiatives and groups hosted the recent event in Nicosia, ‘Stories of Resistance’, as a ...

Explaining the mysterious world of company compliance By Dorina Mastora In recent years ‘compliance’ has become something of a buzz word in governmental, business and professional circles, whilst a perceived ...