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Two men were arrested in a drug bust where 42kg of cannabis were found in Larnaca, police said on Friday. The drug squad, Ykan, on Thursday stopped a 21-year-old driving ...

The weather on Friday will be increasingly cloudy with a chance of scattered showers in the western parts of the island, the met office said. According to the met office, ...

Cyprus’ registered unemployment figures witnessed an eight-month low in December 2023, according to seasonally adjusted data by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). According to the report, the number of registered unemployed ...

The Cyprus Investment Funds Association (CIFA) this week released a statement expressing an optimistic outlook for 2024, anticipating another favourable year for the investment funds sector in Cyprus, despite any challenges ...

As the spat over government funding for theatre production continues, Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said that threats are not the solution, and actors will be the ones paying the ...

Access to nursing homes, hospitals and similar premises will be allowed to visitors only if they’ve tested negative for Covid-19, the cabinet formally decided on Thursday. The announced measures ...

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, on Thursday expressed concerns about the increasing militarisation of the buffer zone and said that the latest report on ...

The foreign ministry on Thursday expressed its condolences over the loss of life in the bombings in Iran a day earlier. “We express our deepest condolences for the loss of ...

How many musicians can a stage fit? An upcoming concert series will see Nicosia and Limassol audiences treated to a captivating musical occasion which will see 200 guitars on stage. A ...

Hermes Airports, which manages and operates Cyprus’ two international airports, on Thursday announced that it recorded a surge in passenger traffic during 2023, tallying over 11.6 million passengers by the end of ...

The cabinet on Thursday announced the new board of directors at the Natural Gas Public Corporation (Defa), the state-run entity with the exclusive rights to import and distribute natural gas ...

The road transport department is in the final stages of preparing regulations to start MOT safety checks motorcycles, road transport officer Evangelos Panteli said on Thursday. Speaking to CyBC in ...

Police cautioned the public on Thursday to be wary of scams on WhatsApp, where individuals posing as police officers have been trying to extort bank and ID details from unsuspecting ...

President Nikos Christodoulides assured his ministers on Thursday that he would personally inform them about the reshuffle, dispelling media reports suggesting the changes would be completed before the 18-month mark, ...

There was no flood or fire warning system in the server room that was brought down by a water leak in April last year, and no CCTV monitoring, a report ...

Limassol municipality is subsidising the purchase of 120-litre household bins throughout the city, as part of its effort to improve rubbish collection, it said on Thursday. Residents can secure the ...

Cyprus has ten days to submit the arrest warrant and other necessary documents for the extradition of Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat from Italy, where he was arrested in connection ...

In a chaotic time to launch something new, PAUL LAMBIS speaks to one of the UK’s leading businessmen who would encourage all to find your passion Cypriot-born Theo Paphitis ...

The government has expanded free pre-primary education from the age of four years and eight months to four years and six months with the aim of eventually bringing it down ...

An investigation into the alleged theft of electronic items confiscated by customs officials is in its final stages, reports said on Thursday. Three customs officials are under investigation as part ...

After weeks of an ongoing spat, the finance ministry approved on Thursday 29 positions out of the 56 the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) requested for its budget for the year. HIO chairman ...

Internationally acclaimed football star Cristiano Ronaldo has become an investor in UFL, a new free-to-play football video game, created by company in Paphos. Ronaldo is part of a group of ...

London-based firm Global Capital, which specialises in international capital markets, hailed Cyprus’ sustainable bond issuance of €1 billion in April 2023 as the top public-sector green and social bond for the year, ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Elias Hazou The government on Thursday proposed extending to February 21 the validity of an existing decree regulating the composition of halloumi cheese, in a last-ditch bid ...