Despite Covid, cycle challenge raises more than €40,000
Despite coronavirus measures a cycle challenge has raised more than €40,000, the British bases announced on Monday. “The second annual SBA Police Cycle Challenge took...
British Bases
Bases release two healed birds into Akrotiri marsh
The British bases released two white storks and a cattle egret onto the Akrotiri marsh after having helped nurse them back to health, an announcement...
Bases launch Facebook page
The British Bases in Cyprus launched their official Facebook page on Wednesday, with the aim of sharing updates about life on the Bases. The page,...
Bases add 17 new recruits to police force
British bases police have added 17 new recruits to the force, the Sovereign Base Area (SBA) said on Wednesday. The recruits, 15 Greek Cypriots and...
Turkish Cypriots question Bases deal made without their consent
Say is against Treaty of Establishment as change of use requires signatures of all five parties By Elias Hazou Despite recent assurances that Turkish Cypriot...
Coronavirus: three remanded on suspicion of forging negative tests
Three individuals were remanded for five days on Saturday by the Famagusta District Court, suspected of forging negative Covid-19 PCR tests to cross back and...
Turkish Cypriot land on British bases safeguarded in development deal
The Turkish Cypriot religious endowment foundation Evkaf said on Wednesday they have received guarantees that Turkish Cypriots properties inside the British sovereign bases (SBAs) would...
Bases gear up for illegal bird trapping season
As the illegal bird trapping season looms ahead, the British bases announced that over €10,000 in fines have already been issued recently as well as...
New lease of life for poisoned falcon
The Akrotiri Environmental and Education Centre, working alongside the Game Fund, have successfully fitted a GPS transmitter to an Eleonora falcon which was found poisoned...
British bases aid in search for missing pensioner
The British bases on Wednesday said they were providing over 20 personnel to help police search for an 82-year-old missing man. Bruce Diggle, a British...
Evkaf stakes claim on British bases land (updated)
The British bases on Tuesday gave reassurances that all Turkish Cypriot land is safeguarded and cannot be developed without the consent of its owners, following...
Turkey weighs in on bases development, slams UK and Cyprus
Turkey criticised the UK and Cyprus on Friday over an agreement allowing development of certain areas inside the British sovereign bases 60 years after independence....
Cypriots on British bases can now develop properties
President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday hailed as historic the signing of an agreement with the UK to allow development of certain areas inside the British...
Two men remanded by SBA police for growing cannabis
Two men were remanded in custody for one day on Wednesday morning after being arrested by the SBA Police just outside of Ypsonas on Tuesday...
Government denies Turkish pressure over aircraft on British bases
The agriculture ministry on Saturday rubbished a report by daily Phileleftheros suggesting two fire-fighting aircraft leased by Cyprus through EU co-funding were going to...
‘We will do this together’
By Major General Rob Thomson This fight against Covid-19 is far from over but, following the President’s speech on Wednesday, it’s a good moment to...
Coronavirus: British Forces donate food to families in need
The British base of Akrotiri has launched a food aid programme to help struggling families during the Covid-19 outbreak. Representatives of the police’s Community Unit...
Coronavirus: British bases and Cyprus police ‘working together’
Police from the British bases and the Republic have been working together to ensure adherence to the restrictions on movement by carrying out checks. Joint...
Coronavirus: Bases say seven, not nine cases in SBA
The British bases on Wednesday issued a clarification as regards the number of confirmed Covis-19 cases within the sovereign bases areas (SBA). A BFC spokesperson,...
Coronavirus: SBA adopts new measures announced by Republic
Authorities at the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) have confirmed that the new measures introduced by the Republic of Cyprus on Monday to control the spread...
