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Port and maritime police on Wednesday announced they will be conducting an exercise in the sea, in the area adjacent to the Limassol coastal walk.
The exercise is scheduled to ...
In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday announced an upcoming plan to address the housing crisis, and that moves are underway to improve bicommunal ties, in addition to ...
The stationing of school nurses is to be gradually introduced, President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Tuesday, in the context of his 100 days in government press conference.
The president spoke of ...
On Wednesday the weather will be mostly clear, with locally increased clouds and showers possible in the afternoon, mainly in the mountains. Winds will be variable, light, up to 3 Beaufort, ...
Two young motorbike riders were hospitalised on Tuesday following a collision in Nicosia.
The crash happened around 5pm on Amathoustos Street, in Dali, according to police information, when the 18-year-old ...
Police on Wednesday are investigating an explosion in a car owned by a 27-year-old man in the early morning hours in the small Paphos village of Argaka.
According to the ...
Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Philippos Hadjizacharias this week described the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) as a fundamental pillar for knowledge and research on the island.
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The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) this week announced that its business mission, led by Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis, departed on Tuesday for the city of ...
EU effort to bring in an ambitious plan to restore natural systems has taken a battering in Cyprus and elsewhere in the bloc
Nature restoration makes total good sense. We ...
The Polis Chrysochous mayor on Tuesday called for an extension of the four-month objection window for the local Akamas plan.
The deadline is set for June 24 and in a letter ...
Understaffing and a lack of interest have left the prisons psychiatric department without fulltime employees for the past year, the justice ministry said on Tuesday, after the subject surfaced at ...
The European Commission on Tuesday announced the allocation of €7 million for Cypriot sheep and goat farmers.
The allocation of funds is aimed at ameliorating the financial losses faced by farmers ...
Deputies were on Tuesday trying to rush through a bill to regulate remote work in the private sector, hoping to have it voted into law before parliament goes into recess ...
Four buses were destroyed in a fire on Tuesday evening, that plunged Aglandjia in a plume of smoke.
The flames were under control shortly before 10pm, around an hour and ...
MPs on Tuesday sounded the alarm over the possible discontinuation of the Kormakitis Centre for Cooperation, but also the EU potentially halting all funding to Maronite community projects in Cyprus ...
Outraged residents of Dali on Tuesday complained the planned hosting of the AfroBanana festival in the nearby forest will damage local wildlife.
The Commission of Residents and Friends of Dali ...
Increasing figures of forced displacement are a tragic reality for humanity, Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides said on Tuesday, in light of World Refugee Day.
She stressed the importance of more solidarity ...
An EU Commission delegation was in Cyprus for two days to carry out meetings over the island’s sanctions implementation and enforcement, it emerged on Tuesday.
The purpose of the ...
Cyprus on Tuesday along with Belgium, France, Estonia, and Hungary signed a letter of intent to jointly procure Mistral anti-aircraft missiles.
The letter was signed by defence ministry permanent secretary ...
The prices of VAT-free products have increased “more than expected”, the Cyprus Consumers’ Association said on Tuesday.
A total of 92% of VAT-free products have seen price increases, with the association ...
Cyprus has made “some progress” in implementing anti-money laundering measures, but it still needs to improve on certain aspects, a Moneyval report released on Tuesday said.
In its annual report ...
Nikos Christodoulides’ first 100 days in power presentation on Tuesday drew a mixed reaction from parliamentary parties with opposition Akel saying major changes are needed, and Dipa saying it is a ...
More than €2 billion in taxes are owed to the state, of which €668 million is at risk of never being received, the Audit Office said in a report released Tuesday.
In ...