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A total of three cars were destroyed by an arson attack in the car park of an apartment building in the Limassol village of Trachoni on Friday night. Police believe ...

The ancient art of contortion led one headstrong child out of her home nation to the circus and on to balancing business with wellness. THEO PANAYIDES meets her For best ...

Two men were arrested in Limassol on Friday night after having been found to be in possession of a total of 80 grams of cannabis between them. The pair, aged 27 and 26 ...

High temperatures and high concentrations of dust are expected to persist in Cyprus on Saturday. Temperatures are expected to rise to a high of 32 degrees Celsius inland, 30 degrees Celsius on ...

‘I was reluctant to torch my car in the name of journalism’. Alix Norman discovers the Stanley flask for sale on the island, and viciously tests it against Cyprus’ cats, ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis this week addressed the growing need for foreign workers in Cyprus’ tourism sector, attributing it to the surge in tourist arrivals exacerbating labour shortages. ...

The majority of the public who use the island’s citizens service centres (KEP) have reported being served within ten minutes, a survey released by the finance ministry revealed on ...

The Jennifer aid vessel departed from Larnaca port on Friday night to Gaza, sources cited by CNA said. All the humanitarian assistance was inspected in Cyprus before its departure. The ...

Cyprus and Kyrgyzstan successfully concluded negotiations over a Treaty for the Elimination of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and the prevention of tax evasion and tax avoidance, ...

Hundreds of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets on Friday evening to protest against the north’s ‘government’. The protest had been called on by a total of 32 political parties, ...

A slew of illegal developments have taken place in environmentally protected areas across the country, including Natura 2000 sites, the Audit Office revealed on Friday, in a report calling for a ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) on Friday reported an increase in both loans and total deposits within the Cypriot banking system for March 2024. According to the CBC, liquidity, measured ...

The ‘government’ in the north has secured £68 million sterling (€79 million) to pay compensation to Greek Cypriots who applied to the Immovable Property Commission (IPC) and whose claims were processed by ...

Thirty people lost their lives on the job since 2021 and more than 4,000 were injured in the workplace in the same period, the president of the Technical Chamber Etek said on ...

UK Cypriot Andreas Michli has thrown his hat in as an independent candidate in London’s upcoming mayoral elections. As described on his campaign page, “Michli is a proud father, ...

Around eight per cent of the workforce, or 40,000 people are illegally employed in Cyprus resulting in a loss of revenue to the social insurance fund of €10 million a year, Labour ...

A “political group” for the Cyprus problem has been created by President Nikos Christodoulides, it was revealed on Friday. The group’s creation was announced by government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis on Friday acknowledged that the Cypriot tourism sector is in need of foreign workers, noting that the increase in tourist arrivals has further exacerbated ...

The Larnaca criminal court on Friday sentenced a 29-year-old man to five years in prison today after finding him guilty of drug trafficking. A police statement said that “members of ...

A meeting was held this week in Guangzhou, China, which brought together the Deputy Minister of Shipping, Marina Hadjimanolis, the president of the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) ...

Households will be obliged to separate their hazardous waste from garbage that will go to landfills as of January 2025. Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Friday. “Hazardous waste such as ...

The next shipment of humanitarian aid from Cyprus to Gaza will probably set sail on Tuesday, April 30, Cyprus employers’ and industrialists’ federation (Oev) director general Michalis Antoniou said on Friday. ...

An 82-year-old who was jailed for shooting a cable thief in March had an appeal for his sentence to be commuted to a suspended sentence rejected on Friday. During proceedings ...

As part of the Nicosia Smart City Project, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed on Friday between the municipality and the non-profit organisation Green Dot on smart glass recycling. The ...