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By George Coucounis Very often, builders are employed to carry out repairs, construction or extensions in houses or other buildings, even to build them. The builder or the contractor, before ...

Sadio Mane showed bravery and mental strength in putting behind him an early squandered penalty to power Senegal to their first African title and bring to an exciting close a ...

Cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos could this week become only the second Cypriot ever to be nominated for an Oscar. THEO PANAYIDES talks to his old friend about loving what you do ...

More than two years after the contract signed to build a liquefied natural gas import terminal at the port of Vasilikos, the project is stuck at 4 per cent at most, ...

Two escaped detainees alleged to have committed over 40 crimes may have had help from the inside, while the police acknowledged that mistakes were made. The escapees are Alexandros Sarkisides, aged 28, ...

In today’s episode, three police officers in Paphos have been suspended pending an investigation into how two suspects escaped detention cells at the city’s police headquarters. In other ...

Police fined 16 individuals and seven business for breaking coronavirus restrictions in the 24 hours up to 6am on Monday. A police spokesman told the Cyprus News Agency that these were the ...

Paphos castle will be lit up red all week to raise public awareness over congenital heart defects, the department of antiquities said on Monday. The campaign is being led by ...

Four more people are to be taken to Limassol District Court on Monday after a fight broke out at a party in Limassol on Saturday night. Police said the individuals ...

Switzerland’s Beat Feuz won gold in the men’s downhill at the Beijing Olympics on Monday with 41-year-old Frenchman Johan Clarey taking silver. Feuz, winner at Kitzbuehel last month, ...

Facebook’s parent Meta Platforms said on Friday it is launching a tool for people using its virtual reality social platforms to maintain personal space boundaries, as concerns have mounted ...

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson a state of emergency to help deal with an unprecedented 10-day occupation by protesting truckers that has shut down much of the core of the Canadian ...

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is targeting a date on or near March 8 to unveil a low-cost 5G iPhone and an updated iPad, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people with ...

Staff at Tesco (TSCO.L) deserve to be protected from inflation and it was wrong for the governor of the Bank of England to tell workers to restrain their demands ...

Sony announced on Monday that it had completed its acquisition of game developer Bungie, the studio behind multiplayer first-person shooter Destiny, as well as the original creators of Halo, a ...

‘It’s madness to keep building when we have more than enough’ By Bejay Browne Peyia residents are up in arms over a number of big building projects earmarked for ...

Free testing sites for Monday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Limassol (7 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” store) 9 am – 6 pm 94041843 Pano ...

By Gwynne Dyer Military coups are back in fashion in Africa. There have been over 200 attempted coups in the continent since 1960, about half of them successful, but in the past ...

The health ministry announced that four people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,214 had tested positive from 85,567 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.59 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

A remarkable woman who clung on to power for as long as she could Caterina Cornaro, one of Venice’s most influential female aristocrats, demonstrated that a queen could be ...

By Achilleas Demetriades Climate change is on our doorstep. There is an urgency to address this global concern and Cyprus cannot drag its feet on this any longer. No individual ...

Charalambos Theopemptou was on Sunday re-elected as head of the Green Party – Citizens Cooperation during the party’s 12th annual congress. Alkis Papis was elected vice president, while Kyriakos Tsimilis ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The circulation of the euro began 20 years ago, two years after it was formed virtually. This article aims to critically evaluate the evolution of ...

Russia could invade Ukraine within days or weeks but could still opt for a diplomatic path, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday. “We are in the ...