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Police have arrested five people for presenting forged travel documents over the past three days. According to a police statement, the five suspects were all arrested at Paphos airport intending ...

A German tourist attempting to take pictures fell from a height of seven metres into the sea and was injured on Sunday. According to a police statement, at around 3 pm ...

On Monday the weather will be mostly clear, with temporarily increased high clouds in the morning. Winds will be mainly north-easterly, light to moderate, up to 4 Beaufort, and transient on ...

A young mother was killed on Saturday night in a car accident that occurred after 10pm on the Akrotiri – Kolossi road near the village of Trachoni. The deceased has been ...

2022 in review: more migrants are coming than are being processed or sent back and authorities can’t keep up Migration is a polarising topic, although it’s probably fair to ...

2022 in review: progress of sorts in the case of Thanasis Nicolaou 2022 was the year in which the case of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a ...

Violence that broke out in Larnaca in the early hours of Sunday left a 26-year-old man with two of his fingers amputated and multiple fractures to the skull, while a 29...

2022 in review: cheaper housing is in short supply There’s a lot to whine about and I’m generally pretty good at it, so here goes: decent housing is largely ...

The island’s Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Sunday said President Nicos Anastasiades has the option of referring the law on pre-primary education to the Supreme Court. Prodromou’s comments ...

2022 in review: misinformation on a crucial topic for the young The debate in parliament on whether sex education should be mandatory in schools plummeted to one of the lowest levels ...

Paphos venue to stage a range of musical evenings in the first month of the year 2023 is officially here and with it, a new wave of cultural happenings arrives. In ...

Paphos police booked 34 individuals in a coordinated New Year operation to combat traffic offences, most of them related to driving under the influence of alcohol. According to Paphos Police director ...

A 33-year-old man was detained by police in Paphos on Sunday for illegal possession of drugs and copper wiring. According to a police announcement on Sunday Paphos police spotted a ...

2022 in review: Covid became endemic and we got back many of our freedoms, but it’s not over yet I wrote two dozen features for the Sunday Mail in 2022, but ...

The new president of Cyprus must learn to put aside ideological differences for the good of the country, as a slew of external crises are expected to continue into 2023, President ...

2022 in review: From Russia to Iran, we simply copy-paste the narratives of the main news networks A couple of weeks ago, during the foreign news segment on a local television ...

The Animal Party is organising a protest on January 8 outside the Kantou community leader’s offices, after a poisoned dog seen crying on the street was ignored for 24 hours. It ...

Over 28 kilos of cannabis have been found off the coast of Famagusta in the past 10 days, with police believing it is coming from the north. Police on Saturday also said ...

Sales across supermarkets have matched pre-pandemic levels this Christmas, largely driven by special offers which lure in customers, but retailers in other areas said consumer spending had been disappointing. Executive ...

As January 1, 2023 rolls around, Cyprus will for the first time be implementing a minimum wage. Set at €940 per month, the measure is expected to impact some 40,000 workers. For the first ...

Larnaca municipality has extended the deadline for all taxes until the end of January, it said in an announcement on Saturday. Taxes concerning rubbish collection, the cemetery tax, property maintenance ...

The new Archbishop Georgios will follow the line of late Archbishop Chrysostomos on the Cyprus problem, he said in an interview on Saturday. “Our views are aligned, meaning we should ...

In 2022 the Larnaca tourism board (Etap) carried out actions aimed at the quality upgrade and enrichment of the city’s tourism product and its marine protected area, it said in ...

Tourists from Switzerland, the US, Norway and Austria were the biggest spenders in Cyprus, which saw its tourism revenue for October amount to €319.8 million, figures from the statistical service revealed. ...