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The Republic of Cyprus’ customs department on Wednesday announced they had found and confiscated more than two tonnes of meat which were headed for the north. The meat was found ...

A truck driver was fined after he was caught trying to bring 4,500 litres of fuel from the north to the Republic, the customs office said on Wednesday. Police pulled the ...

Legislation has been prepared for the creation of the role of a “patient advocate”, with the bill expected to be brought to parliament in the near future. The bill is ...

Arranging with friends where to go for dinner provided the perfect opportunity to go to a restaurant I had been wanting to try for ages because it boasts a combination ...

The government will not deviate from its goal to complete the Vasiliko terminal and gain the capacity to bring natural gas to the island, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said ...

Prices of fruit and vegetables at Cyprus’ supermarkets are “unfair both on producers and consumers”, Cyprus Consumers’ Association chairman Marios Drousiotis said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, he ...

The Paphos tourism development board (Etap) on Wednesday announced various undertakings aimed at boosting tourism to the Akamas region communities. Ongoing experiential workshops, smart signs, and audiovisual material on social ...

A 57-year-old man is being treated in intensive care on Wednesday after a collision in Larnaca. According to the police, the collision occurred shortly before 7pm, on a rural road ...

Police on Tuesday arrested a 42-year-old Limassol resident for an investigated case of motorcycle theft. The owner of a company in Limassol had reported two motorbikes as stole between last ...

Water will be cut all day on Wednesday to Latchi, the Polis Chrysochous Municipality announced. The water cut is due to the a replacement of the main pipeline supplying the ...

Military cooperation between the Republic and the USA is intended as a threat against the ‘TRNC’ the north’s ‘foreign ministry’ has said. In response to the threat the necessary ...

A renewed yellow weather warning is in place for high temperatures on Wednesday, in effect from 11am until 4pm. The day will be mostly clear with increased afternoon clouds in ...

By Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou My journey into environmental advocacy began long before my appointment as the Commissioner for the Environment on January 10, 2024. My deep passion for the interplay between ...

The current state of affairs in the Cyprus problem is “not viable” and holds “serious dangers”, President Nikos Christodoulides said, opening the Cyprus diaspora convention. He also said “we should ...

The Nicosia district court has issued a four-day remand order against the fifth person arrested for the car bombing of July 4 in Nicosia. The suspect, a 27-year-old man, was arrested ...

Controlled pharmaceutical and drug products were confiscated on Tuesday during a police and heath ministry operation in Limassol. Two shops were searched after information that illegal substances were being traded. ...

Cyprus was the EU member state with the second highest percentage of workers who couldn’t afford to go on holiday in 2022, Eurostat data for the European Trade Union Confederation (...

The government on Tuesday kicked off a campaign to promote a new set of rules for the storage of hazardous substances, with Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou visiting the Vasiliko cement ...

A 28-year-old was on Tuesday sentenced to six years in prison for possession of drugs with the purpose of selling them, as well as a concurrent four-year sentence for importing ...

The International Press Institute had by Tuesday joined the chorus of voices against the contentious fake news bill currently being discussed in Cyprus’ parliament, which has been slammed as a ...

The energy regulator (Cera) said on Tuesday it is “under pressure” to consent to Cypriot consumers paying a fee from now for the Great Sea Interconnector, the mooted subsea electricity ...

The presidential palace coughed up almost €60,000 on catering and restaurants in 2023, according to a report published on Tuesday. Details of the state expenditure were reported in Philenews though it did ...

The government will invite two tenders in a bid to complete the LNG project, one for remaining construction work on the jetty at the land-based facilities at Vasiliko, the other ...

A plan called Nafkratis has been updated for migratory flows in case Cyprus needs to become a safe junction for evacuees due to an explosive situation in Lebanon and the ...