#alcohol

Kuwait’s health ministry said 63 people had suffered methanol poisoning from contaminated alcoholic drinks in the five days to Wednesday, resulting in 13 deaths and 21 cases of blindness or impaired vision. ...

The police are to conduct an “intensive” operation of heightened roadside tests with the aim of clamping down on people driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. During the ...

The World Health Organization released new findings on Friday about an “alarming” lack of awareness about alcohol’s link to cancer across Europe and called for clear and prominent tobacco-style ...

Police in Limassol on Sunday evening arrested a 49-year-old man for a case involving repeatedly running into a 34-year-old woman with his vehicle. The incident happened last Monday and the ...

The addictions authority on Friday called on consumers to “rethink their relationship with alcohol”. The call was made as part of alcohol awareness week, which the authority launched this year ...

Almost 14 per cent in Cyprus used alcohol for the first time when they were under the age of 12 and over 24 per cent tried it out between the ages of 13 and 14, ...

A 76-year-old woman from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday evening, accused of having stolen alcoholic beverages and other items from a supermarket in the town. The woman was initially noticed ...

A man was punched in the face in the early hours of Monday morning after driving with headlights which were “too bright”. The man, aged 33, had been driving on the ...

A 47-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday after police said they found 29 boxes containing a total of 174 bottles of illegal booze hidden in his car. In ...

The sale of alcohol to minors or the consumption thereof by minors is illegal, Law Commissioner Louiza Zannetou said on Wednesday. Zannetou was speaking during a round table discussion organised ...

Cypriot children drink more alcohol than their counterparts in the rest of Europe, but in a smaller quantity, according to survey released on Tuesday. The Espad survey questioned 15 and 16-year-olds ...

Around half of schoolkids in Cyprus have tried alcohol at least once, according to an HBSC survey on health behaviour in school-age children, with officials saying the data is alarming. ...

Police in Paphos arrested two people in the last three days during traffic checks for illegal possession of narcotics. According to Paphos CID chief Michalis Nikolaou, two people in two ...

Smoking – cigarettes and shishas – and drinking alcohol have been banned in parks in Kyrenia following an announcement by its ‘mayor’ Murat Sengul, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Saturday. According to ...

The transport ministry on Saturday announced that the House plenum has approved an amendment to the Road Safety Act 2022, allowing it to regulate advertisements and other such activities that concern ...

Supermarkets in the north were emptied of alcohol after news hit of a big price hike to be slapped on them through increased taxation. Some shop owners pre-emptively took bottles ...

In an unprecedented decision, the Larnaca district court on Wednesday found three teenagers guilty in the bullying death of 16-year-old Panayiotis Stefani in 2019 who died from alcohol poisoning. The three, ...

Cyprus alcohol prices were slightly higher than the European Union average in 2020, according to the latest figures released by EU statistics agency Eurostat. Eurostat said that in 2020, the price of ...

Beer deliveries in Cyprus have increased year-on-year during the first seven months of the year, a report by the Cyprus Statistical Service has shown. According to the service, 19.49 million litres ...

Four per cent of the adult population in Cyprus consumes alcohol daily – half the EU27 average — while 29 per cent never consumed or had not consumed any in the last 12 months, ...

Major drinks companies are making deals and reaching joint ventures to boost their offerings of spirits priced at $200-a-bottle and up, the fastest-growing segment in the $1 trillion global market for ...