Daily News Briefing
In today’s episode, centre-right Diko’s central committee unanimously decided to support the candidacy of former foreign minister and independent, Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday.
Elsewhere, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris ...
Teen arrested after attacking a police officer
Cannabis and cocaine, weighing 29 and eight grams, were found in the possession of a 16-year-old who caught the attention of police while riding a motorcycle in Limassol on Sunday night.
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Man in custody after posing as film producer
A 50-year-old man is being held in police custody after allegedly deceiving people by posing as an actor or film producer.
According to a police spokesman, the 50-year-old, who allegedly ...
UN special rep to hold separate meetings with Anastasiades and Tatar
The UNSG’s special representative in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, will hold separate meetings with president Nicos Anastasiades, and Turkish Cypriot leader, Ersin Tatar on Monday.
The meetings take place ahead ...
English school staff stage third protest (Updated)
The English School staff union (ESSA) is held a third protest on Monday morning outside the presidential palace.
In a statement, the organisation said that unfortunately while the minister of ...
Woman arrested in connection with subsidies fraud
Limassol police have arrested a 30-year-old colleague of a 41-year-old woman who is in custody in connection with a subsidies fraud.
The 41-year-old is being held in custody in connection ...
Search for remains of nurses killed in Tylliria in 1964
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is carrying out exhumations at the Paphos cemetery as part of efforts to identify the remains of people who perished in the Tylliria area ...
Podcast to show the island’s rich and diverse history
The history of Cyprus is being brought to life in an entertaining new podcast called, surprisingly enough, The History of Cyprus, aimed at both academics and the man on the ...
Primary school children involved in protecting under-threat vultures
Spanish experts were on the island this week to share expertise on protecting wildlife from poison baits as part of a wider campaign to bolster the island’s embattled Griffon ...
Post fact figments, sometimes of imagination: The Cyprus Airways crash of the 1960s
Nicholas Karides looks at a new intricately constructed account of a Cyprus Airways crash in the 60s
As if the collective Cypriot mind didn’t have enough trouble distinguishing myth ...
Cypriot authorities put Sunday’s tremor at 2.6, epicentre east of Limassol
A small tremor measuring 2.6 on the Richter scale was felt in some parts of the island on Sunday, the geological surveys department said.
It was mainly felt in the city ...
Disy: Christodoulides now the willing accomplice of Diko’s desire for power at all costs
Ruling Disy said on Sunday that as former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was now officially “the willing accomplice in the effort the Diko leadership to return to government at all ...
Sixty hours on the ocean wave: Checking out the new ferry service
Stavros Koniotis experiences what the first ferry from Cyprus to Greece in over 20 years has to offer. And then takes it back again
One week ago the passenger ferry Daleela ...
Nouris says ‘truth somewhere in the middle’ in acrimonious Akamas debate
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Sunday urged both sides in the Akamas debate to lower the tone, saying the truth of the new plan for the environmentally-sensitive area was somewhere ...
Diko central committee backs Christodoulides (Updated)
Centre-right Diko’s central committee has unanimously decided to support the candidacy of Nikos Christodoulides for the upcoming presidential elections.
The committee met on Sunday to cast their votes following ...
Slightly cooler temperatures to prevail in coming days
The weather over the next three days will continue to be slightly unseasonal with isolated showers and lower temperatures than would be expected this time of the year.
Sunday is ...
Police find more than 2kg of meth buried in open space in Limassol
Limassol police are investigating after finding more than two kilos of methamphetamine buried in an open space in a village in the district.
Police said they found 2.18kg of the ...
Anastasiades touts Cyprus as regional firefighting response hub
Cyprus would like to function as a regional hub to coordinate responses of neighbouring countries to fires, President Nicos Anastasiades has said.
In an interview with Politis following the devastating ...
Cyprus investing in social policies to battle drug addiction, health ministry says
The health ministry said on Sunday that Cyprus was investing a social policy to address addiction to narcotics, in a message to mark World Day Against Drugs and Drug Trafficking.
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Karousos orders investigation after ‘filthy bus’ breaks down on highway
Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos has ordered an investigation after photos and video of a broken-down and filthy Intercity bus went viral on social media on Saturday.
“As soon as the ...
Food crisis: are we ready for it?
With the UN warning of global famine, Cyprus is taking a ‘wait and see’ approach to food security
With the UN warning this week that 40 countries were on the brink ...
Volunteers swim 8km to support cancer patients
Volunteers swam eight kilometres in Limassol early on Saturday to support cancer patients, sending the message that “no one is alone”.
To meet the group of swimmers at the finish ...
Arrest for theft of copper pipes
A 39-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing copper pipes and wires from a construction site in Paphos earlier this year.
For the same case, a 44-year-old man ...
Driver arrested after fatal collision in Limassol
Police on Saturday said they had arrested a 39-year-old driver who was involved in a traffic accident that led to the death of 22-year-old Vasilis Chiras the previous day in ...