Cyprus

A 45-year-old man was arrested under suspicion of drug possession, after police found cannabis plants and packages in his home, authorities said on Wednesday. According to police, the drug squad ...

The Leventis Foundation was handed a substantial fine on Wednesday after being found guilty of breaching health and safety legislation. An official statement released by the labour ministry’s department ...

Cyprus along with all countries that imposed sanctions on Russia have had their double taxation agreements suspended, an announcement from the finance ministry said on Wednesday. The decree was signed ...

The veterinary services on Wednesday detailed the procedure for getting cat-covid medicine, after cabinet last week approved the use of covid meds for humans to be repurposed for cats. The ...

Hundreds of applications from low-income families and borrowers overdue on their loans have been preliminary approved by the Housing Finance Corporation (HFC) and sent to the accountant general for further ...

Health authorities on Wednesday said they have issued a recall on a specific herbal dietary supplement on the market, after sample testing detected a substance that requires medical prescription before ...

A whopping 4,000 new sunbeds have been placed on the beaches of Ayia Napa. Ayia Napa mayor Christos Zannettou spoke about the move on Wednesday, thanking the workers who placed the ...

The Cyprus Public Transport (CPT) announced on Wednesday that from September 1 the cost of a single route bus ticket in the Larnaca and Nicosia districts will increase from €2 to €2.40. Furthermore, ...

In local comic Cypriot Smurf and his popular character Souvlaki, PAUL LAMBIS meets a man keen to take his outlook to a wider audience It is said that if you ...

Russia is to “begin providing consular services” in the north “in the very near future”, according to Russian news agency Tass. According to the reports, an official from the Russian ...

A not-for-profit university in Troodos is feasible and would rejuvenate the mountain communities, according to Platres’ community leader and head of the Troodos network Panayiotis Papadopoulos. Plans for the university ...

Foreign firefighting aircraft began departing from Cyprus on Wednesday, as the fire in the Alassa dam area of Limassol that has been burning since last week has now been put ...

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu has touted a shift to a ‘presidential’ system, saying he “believes in [it] until the end”. The north has had a parliamentary system ...

The government’s deputy spokesperson Doxa Komodromou has said the ongoing row between health minister Popi Kanari and the ministry’s permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki is an “internal matter for ...

The organised beach in Gialia is not compliant with the restrictions set to protect the turtles that nest on it, it emerged on social media on Wednesday. A series of ...

With a focus on transparency, the 4th Cyprus Forum will be held in Nicosia this September, organised by the Oxygono NGO in collaboration with the Delphi Economic Forum. Held under ...

A high-ranking UN official is expected to visit Cyprus in late August to hold meetings with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, the Cyprus News Agency reported ...

Limassol municipality on Wednesday opened a call for tenders for a linear park connecting Ayia Sophia and the seafront area, a new project that aims to improve and upgrade the ...

The Bank of Cyprus Group on Wednesday announced an after-tax profit of €220m for the first six months of this year, a five-fold increase on the €43m posted for the ...

Nicosia police on Wednesday said two arrests have been made in relation to attempted arson and car arson. Around 5pm on Tuesday police were alerted that a private vehicle, owned ...

Dozens if not hundreds of unpaid Covid-19 fines are pending in court, while a judge has stated that re-registering the cases would burden the state with unnecessary costs. The issue ...

A Turkish government office has corroborated Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s claims that the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) fabricated a quote after a recent interview. Turkish Presidency’s Communications ...

Potential clashes between football fans were prevented on Tuesday night as the police received unconfirmed information which tipped them off. Footage from football hooligan accounts on social media showed dozens ...

In a journalist and award-winning novelist who follows stories across the continents, THEO PANAYIDES finds a vivacious woman in love with Cyprus Anais Llobet is moving on. This is not ...