National Guardsman died from severe head injuries
The death of 32-year-old National Guard officer Xanthos Kyriacou from Limassol who fell on Tuesday from a 40-metre height during training was due to severe head injuries and multiple injuries ...
Coronavirus: Rapid testing sites for Thursday
The health ministry announced a total of 66 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Thursday.
The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...
Facebook to work with AFP to monitor fake news in Cyprus
Facebook has announced that it will be working with the French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) as an independent fact checker for Greek-speaking Cyprus and Greece.
The social media ...
Speeding drivers test positive for drugs and alcohol
Two drivers were caught speeding on the Limassol-Nicosia highway on Tuesday night, with the first found to be driving under the influence of alcohol and the second testing positive for ...
Tenders invited for Chlorakas wave breakers
The transport ministry is inviting tenders for the construction of wave breakers and other work to protect Chlorakas coast between the St George and Laura hotels.
The €3.73 million project includes ...
List of hotels with special offers for residents now online
A list of hotels and other tourist complexes participating in a special scheme to boost domestic tourism is available online, the deputy ministry of tourism said on Wednesday.
Open to ...
Coronavirus: Police investigating alleged fraud in rapid test tender
A company that allegedly forged documents for a tender involving 1.2 million rapid tests is under investigation after being reported by the health ministry, police said on Wednesday.
This is the ...
Top court overrules suspended sentence, orders four years jail for fraudster
The Supreme Court has set aside a two-year suspended jail sentence for forgery and money laundering as inadequate and ordered the defendant be jailed for four years, the Cyprus News ...
Coronavirus: Decision expected following AZ review, experts divided (Updated)
Decisions about the AstraZeneca vaccine will be made by Wednesday evening after epidemiologists submitted their suggestions, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said.
No new AstraZeneca appointments will be allowed “until the ...
Coronavirus: Government defends nightclub support as owners protest (Updated)
Nightclub owners protested outside the presidential palace on Wednesday to press for state aid to mitigate 60 weeks of compulsory closure because of the pandemic.
Scores gathered at the GSP stadium ...
Dherynia wants beekeepers to use land near buffer zone
Dherynia Municipality is asking the agriculture ministry to allow beekeepers to use land near the buffer zone.
This would generate business and help clean up an area that is being ...
Over €74m in EU funds to boost health system (Updated)
Over €74 million from the €1.2 billion allocated to Cyprus from the Cyprus Recovery and Resilience Plan will go to strengthening the health system over the next five years, Health Minister Constantinos ...
Coronavirus: Rescheduling of appointments for second AZ dose underway
Rescheduling of appointments for the second dose of the AstraZeneca is underway, with 12,500 jabs already brought forward and another 25,000 due to be arranged in the next few days, the health ...
Singer-songwriter juggles a day job and a global audience
THEO PANAYIDES meets a girl writing songs on her piano, when she isn’t working at the bank, who has just released her second album. Young at heart and delicate, ...
British bases say army does not tolerate drug abuse within its ranks
The British bases on Wednesday did not confirm or deny reports from the UK that ten of its soldiers had tested positive for cocaine.
Ten SBA personnel who allegedly failed ...
Volunteerism commissioner resigns amid probe over qualifications (Updated)
Volunteerism Commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki has resigned amid a police investigation that his academic qualifications had allegedly been forged.
Police confirmed on Wednesday that they had on Tuesday received a letter ...
Arrest for father of boy 5 who had cocaine in his system
The 45-year-old father of a five-year-old boy who tested positive for cocaine last week in Limassol has been arrested, police told the Cyprus Mail.
Police also issued an arrest warrant ...
EU Commission agrees to tender changes for Cyprus-Greece ferry link
The European Commission has agreed to changes in the tender framework for a planned ferry link to Greece, raising hopes the long-discontinued service could attract interest from potential bidders, deputy ...
Coronavirus: 16 fined for breaking decrees
Cyprus police fined 16 people after 4,454 checks for coronavirus measure violations in the last 24 hours.
No violations were reported in Nicosia, Larnaca, Paphos or Morphou.
In Limassol, nine people were fined ...
Small explosion outside health ministry (Updated)
Police said on Wednesday investigations were underway into an explosion outside the health ministry in Nicosia late Tuesday.
An explosive device was set off outside the ministry building, causing damage ...
Cyprus stock exchange privatisation moves forward — Chairman
“Privatisation is coming soon to the Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE),” Chairman Marinos Christodoulides told the Cyprus Mail in a note.
“Hopefully, a foreign stock exchange will be the new shareholder ...
How green focused are our political parties?
The final part of the Cyprus Mail’s look at the environmental policies of the main political parties ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary elections focuses on their main priorities in ...
MPs taken to task over stance on green issues
Just seven MPs responded to questionnaire by environmental groups
A study looking at the track record of MPs on environmental issues was both inconclusive and disappointing, as it did not ...
‘Former minister had nothing to do with passport applications’
The brother of former Transport Minister Marios Demetriades on Tuesday flatly denied the latter had anything to do with applications filed by their family’s law firm on behalf of ...