Cyprus

Two escaped detainees alleged to have committed over 40 crimes may have had help from the inside, while the police acknowledged that mistakes were made. The escapees are Alexandros Sarkisides, aged 28, ...

In today’s episode, three police officers in Paphos have been suspended pending an investigation into how two suspects escaped detention cells at the city’s police headquarters. In other ...

Police fined 16 individuals and seven business for breaking coronavirus restrictions in the 24 hours up to 6am on Monday. A police spokesman told the Cyprus News Agency that these were the ...

Paphos castle will be lit up red all week to raise public awareness over congenital heart defects, the department of antiquities said on Monday. The campaign is being led by ...

Four more people are to be taken to Limassol District Court on Monday after a fight broke out at a party in Limassol on Saturday night. Police said the individuals ...

‘It’s madness to keep building when we have more than enough’ By Bejay Browne Peyia residents are up in arms over a number of big building projects earmarked for ...

Free testing sites for Monday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Limassol (7 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” store) 9 am – 6 pm 94041843 Pano ...

The health ministry announced that four people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,214 had tested positive from 85,567 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.59 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

A remarkable woman who clung on to power for as long as she could Caterina Cornaro, one of Venice’s most influential female aristocrats, demonstrated that a queen could be ...

Charalambos Theopemptou was on Sunday re-elected as head of the Green Party – Citizens Cooperation during the party’s 12th annual congress. Alkis Papis was elected vice president, while Kyriakos Tsimilis ...

Journalist Nikolaos Katsikas, the correspondent in Egypt for the Cyprus News Agency and the Athens News Agency (APE) was found dead in his Cairo home on Saturday night, it was ...

A photo taken on Sunday in the Troodos area shows ‘two suns’, an atmospheric phenomenon commonly known as a ‘sun dog’. A sun dog, also known as a ‘mock sun’ ...

And says we shouldn’t follow some fellow European countries yet in scrapping other Covid measures The SafePass is still effective in the age of Omicron, while the need for ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday he had conveyed his best wishes for a speedy recovery to Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar by telephone. Tatar contracted the virus last week. ...

House President Annita Demetriou said she would not be taking an executive role in the presidential election campaign of ruling Disy leader Averof Neophytou, following reports last week that she ...

Centre-right Diko will be the ruling party or a main part of a coalition government in order to bring about change after the presidential elections in 2023, leader Nicolas Papadopoulos said ...

Two man aged 25 and 20 have been arrested and remanded for eight days by the Limassol court following a fight at a house party in Kato Polemidia during which two children ...

A woman has to work until February 6 to reach the same wage as a man received in the preceding year, Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said on Sunday. Emilianidou said that ...

The audit office on Sunday hit back at reports that it was somehow culpable in the growing concern over delays to the construction of the LNG terminal in Vasiliko. The ...

Police fined 13 individuals and 22 businesses were fined for violating Covid measures over the past 24 hours. They carried out a total of 2,484 checks islandwide. In Nicosia, there were 611 checks, booking 10 people ...

Three police officers in Paphos have been suspended pending an investigation into how two suspects escaped detention cells at the city’s police HQ on Saturday. According to the latest ...

An 18 year-old man has been arrested in Nicosia after losing control of his car and smashing into four teenage girls standing in front of a supermarket wall in Lakatamia. The ...

A 32-year-old man was killed in a road accident on Saturday night on the Limassol-Platres tree after he lost control of his car and crashed into a tree. In statements ...

The health ministry announced that one person had died of Covid-19 and that 2,568 had tested positive from 87,025 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.9 per cent. The death concerned ...