Cyprus

Police on Sunday night warned the public not to be fooled by posts on social media falsely claiming to be made by victims of the recent wildfire that tore through ...

“We receive nothing,” the union of Cyprus municipalities told the Cyprus Mail, outlining the long-standing structure governing traffic fine revenues in Cyprus. The union confirmed that local councils currently do ...

Seven people were arrested on Sunday afternoon as police investigated a case of abduction of two people in Limassol, which was reported to them earlier in the morning. According to ...

A 49-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday as police investigate a case of misappropriation of property by false representation and money laundering. According to a police report made on June 11 ...

August is one of the driest months of the year here and it is unlikely that we will get any rain to help our gardens along. There was not much ...

Despite not seeing any real negotiating framework develop in the four years he has been on the island, departing UN envoy Colin Stewart on Sunday said he thought the Cyrus ...

Val’s Place in the quiet village of Gialia will host yet another edition of the Paradise Jazz Festival this summer. This will be its 25th anniversary and so the ...

More than a week after the devastating wildfires struck, the 16 affected villages in Limassol find themselves surrounded by ash. A burnt smell lingers in the air, and even though the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides “insulted” the Turkish Cypriots with his statements over the detention of five Greek Cypriots in the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Sunday. In a ...

The legacies left to us by Archbishop Makarios III are the only ones that will lead us out of the current impasse, Archbishop Georgios said on Sunday. He was speaking ...

A 23-year-old was remanded in custody for eight days by the Limassol district court on Sunday after he was found collecting a drugs-stuffed package from a courier office the previous ...

A mobile desalination unit with a capacity to output 10,000 cubic metres of water a day is in the process of being installed in the Potima area of Kissonerga, director general ...

Police are searching for a 34-year-old in Larnaca, who is believed to have created a series of fake credit cards and insurance documents. “Yesterday afternoon, after receiving information, Larnaca CID ...

Cyprus must act fast to tackle a worrying rise in road deaths, especially among young men, motorcyclists and elderly pedestrians, transport engineer Neophytos Zavrides has said. Zavrides explained that recent ...

Police on Sunday urged Pafos FC fans planning to go to the airport to greet new player David Luiz to show respect for other airport users. The celebrated defender is ...

An injured person was found in the road in Latsia on Sunday morning and police are trying to work out who he is and what happened. Police called to the ...

A man was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning after overturning a car in a field in Paphos, after which an alcotest showed he had been drinking. The ...

At around 2.20 on Sunday morning a six-year-old child was seriously injured after falling from a height of nine metres. The child was looking for his mother who was working at ...

Why do so many tenders for large public projects crash and burn? Sometimes the bidding competition gets bogged down in endless legal wrangling, eventually scrapped, and authorities have to go ...

A 54-year-old woman was caught driving under the influence on the Nicosia-Larnaca motorway on Saturday morning, police confirmed. The incident took place shortly after 9.30am near Aradippou. Officers from the ...

More than €730,000 has already been disbursed to families whose homes were destroyed or damaged in the deadly July wildfires, with authorities aiming to complete all emergency payments by early next ...

An extra 852 BMW cars in Cyprus must be taken off the road immediately due to a serious safety risk from faulty Takata airbags. The recall was ordered after BMW informed ...

Arriving in China from Cyprus, it is easy to be overwhelmed by the size of everything. The airport itself was enormous, as it should be for what is one of ...

The Cypriot government has strongly condemned the ongoing detention of five Greek Cypriots by the Turkish Cypriot authorities in the north of the island. In a written statement, the director ...