Cyprus

Move over Provence. Platres is the new Lavender Capital of the world! ALIX NORMAN finds out how one Cyprus village is renowned for the Queen of Herbs Prized for its ...

Dias employees on Monday said the police response to Sunday’s attacks on the media group’s offices was too little too late, but the force said their actions were ...

Under the slogan ‘We are all Famagusta’, members of the House of Representatives held a symbolic event on Monday morning in view of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s illegal visit ...

New army recruits started reporting for duty on Monday at recruitment centres around the island. Conscripts all over the island are reporting to camps in Paphos, Larnaca, Limassol and Nicosia ...

Occupied municipalities are saddened to have to stand by and wait for the ‘good news’ expected to be announced by visiting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, their president Petros Kareklas said ...

A 20-year-old man has been arrested in Paphos after stolen items were found in his possession after police caught him with a stolen car. On Sunday evening police spotted a ...

Rolling out stricter measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus will depend on hospitalisations, a member of the government advisory committee said on Monday. Professor of Microbiology and Molecular ...

Additional testimonies from the workplace and family environment of 60-year-old Andreas Poyiatzis in Paphos and Limassol are expected to shed light into his murder, police said on Monday. Investigations started ...

A Larnaca man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday after he was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of his 21-year-old sister with his army-issue G3 ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said they will never abandon efforts for a two-state solution nor the opening of Varosha, as the breakaway state in the north prepared to welcome ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested and subsequently remanded for eight days late on Sunday after police found illegal drugs and firecrackers in his house in Larnaca. Following a tip-off, the ...

Paphos police arrested a 21-year-old man late on Sunday who allegedly had two cannabis plants in his garden. The suspect was initially stopped by members of the drug squad while ...

Revolutionary method uses a bacterial immune system to detect Covid There is an urgent need for inexpensive new technologies which enable fast and reliable detection of viruses. The coronavirus pandemic ...

A group of attackers late Sunday broke into the Dias group building that houses Sigma, attacked staff, set fire to cars in the parking lot and trashed the offices. The ...

Eleni Charitonos loved her heavy spacesuit so much during her simulation astronaut mission that she wished she could sleep in it An aspiring Cypriot astronaut who saw her dreams coming ...

The health ministry announced one more death and said that 858 more people had tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday from 70,809 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.21 per cent. ...

Limassol has become the base for the Royal Caribbean’s cruise ship The Jewel of the Seas offering cruises to Greece and its islands. Katy Turner got to sample its ...

Reports on Sunday said two Turkish F-16s had flown over Cyprus in the afternoon ahead of the visit of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday. Speaking to SigmaLive, a ...

Thousands of people gathered on Sunday outside the presidential palace in Nicosia to protest against the blanket introduction of the SafePass as of Tuesday. The crowd at Human Rights Square ...

The testing sites for Monday are as follows: Province Sampling points Hours Limassol (15 points) “Grigori Afxentiou” Square, Limassol 7.30 am-7.30 pm TEPAK “Tassou Papadopoulos” Building, Agia Zoni (Iphigenia and Themidos Corner) 8.30 ...

Limassol police are investigating the theft of €15,000 from a woman’s bank account through an online scam. Police said the complainant told them that a woman speaking English called the ...

President Nicos Anastasiades expressed hope on Sunday that “intense diplomatic efforts” would prevent further threats by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to the north on Tuesday. In ...

Turkish and Turkish Cypriot media are focusing on five scenarios relating to the ‘good news’ expected to be announced by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to the north ...

Only ten applications remain to be examined under the Estia programme to assist distressed mortgage holders, it was reported on Sunday. Total applications for Estia assistance numbered 6,393 concerning loans worth ...