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Over 1,000 drivers were booked for traffic offences in 48 hours between Friday morning and Sunday morning, police said. The force said it had issued a total of 1,060 fines for various traffic ...

Incentives to companies to come to Cyprus and those already here to expand By Fabian Cabeza, Theodora Alexandrou, Maria Aristidou Cyprus is a long-established international business centre and through various ...

A drunk motorist aged 42, driving at five times the limit with a passenger aged 22 crashed into a traffic island in the early hours of Sunday in Larnaca. Neither was injured ...

A 58-year-old woman was killed by a car while crossing a road in Paphos on Saturday afternoon. The man she was walking with, aged 70, was injured in the incident and ...

Cold call ban meant Forex scam was not on regulators’ radar Regulators in Cyprus had no indication that an Israeli permanent resident involved in the Forex sector was suspected of ...

One person died from coronavirus on Saturday as 174 new cases were recorded. The death was an 83-year-old man who died on Friday at the general hospital in Limassol. His death ...

MPs from the House legal affairs committee on Friday got a first-hand look at conditions in the Nicosia central prisons in the first-ever visit by the committee to the facility. ...

The portal to apply for the bicycle purchase scheme, which crashed last week due to unprecedented interest, will reopen on Tuesday and Wednesday, the transport ministry announced on Saturday. The ...

A total of 45 free rapid test sites for coronavirus for eligible groups will operate nationwide on Sunday, the health ministry announced. Free rapid testing for the general population has been ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Saturday President Nicos Anastasiades will chair a meeting in the coming week to discuss migrant flows. The meeting has been scheduled to get the ...

A week since the start of the COP26 Climate summit in Glasgow, environmental NGOs organised two separate events on Saturday to draw attention to climate change, one in Nicosia and ...

Limassol district court on Saturday remanded for seven days a 32-year-old man arrested the previous day in connection with the theft of guns and thousands of bullets from a licenced ...

A mobile vaccination unit operated on Saturday morning in Palaichori as part of the health ministry’s efforts to expand vaccination coverage across the island. The unit operated from 8am ...

A five-month-old baby is being treated at Makarios children’s hospital for coronavirus, paediatric chief Dr Avraam Elia said on Saturday. Speaking to CyBC radio, Elia said that the baby ...

Police on Saturday arrested a 38-year-old man in relation with a murder attempt against a 47-year-old. The man is suspected of deliberately crashing his car into the victim, injuring him ...

A 32-year-old man sought for the illegal import and possession of drugs with intent to supply was located and arrested abroad, police said on Saturday. He was being sought in ...

Nine businesses in Nicosia and Paphos, and 27 individuals were fined for violating coronavirus measures in the past 24 hours, police said on Saturday. In Nicosia, five businesses were fined because employees ...

The United Nations is trying to get new Special Representative and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus Colin Stewart on the ground as soon as it can, Deputy ...

In Yesteryears of Nicosia one man has set up a collaborative Facebook page looking back on the glory days of the island’s capital. Alix Norman meets him The earliest ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday outlined the government’s Action Plan, aimed at establishing Cyprus as “a prosperous, reliable and competitive business hub.” “We are keen on providing the conditions ...

Taking place over November 10-12 at the Cyprus International Fair in Nicosia, the Eastern Mediterranean Energy Conference and Exhibition (EMC) will focus on a wide range of crucial issues related ...

Cyprus Deputy Minister of Shipping Vasilis Demetriades travelled to Glasgow on Friday to take part in the shipping industry’s official COP 26 sideline event, entitled ‘Shaping the Future of Shipping’, ...

Cyprus aspires to cover its entire road network with an intelligent transportation system within the next three years, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said following the signing of a new contract ...

It’s time to make some decisions that will take educational reform a step further, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday during a press conference on the ministry’s ...