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A report relating to allegations and counter-allegations between the central prisons director and the head of the Drugs Squad was handed over to the attorney-general on Thursday. The report was ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday the ministry would examine a bullying incident at a Limassol gymnasium, where a boy put another classmate in a headlock as other children ...

Bicommunal activist Andreas Soudjis, will remain in the north’s central prison until he is charged and the trial in the case against him begins, a military court in the ...

The transport ministry on Thursday announced direct air connection to three Saudi airports. The flights will start in April 2023. The first will be Larnaca–Riyadh. In July of the same ...

Police in Limassol arrested five people found in possession of a total of 45 grammes of heroin, according to their announcement on Thursday. The five individuals ages, 21, 36, 22, 21, and 34, were arrested on ...

Famagusta police arrested a 22-year-old tourist for drink driving and driving without a licence early Thursday morning. According to Famagusta police spokesman Steve Theodoulou, the 22-year-old was signalled to stop ...

Parents’ Associations in Paphos complained on Thursday that road works on the city’s roads have caused daily problems in traffic. Responding the parents, the city’s mayor Phedon Phedonos ...

Criminal acts were committed in the case of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou who died in 2005, one of the investigators charged with the third inquiry said on Thursday. The findings into ...

A demonstration against the barbed wire fences and gates along the buffer zone will be held on Sunday September 25 by affected villagers in the west of Nicosia, they said on ...

The government on Wednesday spun the new minimum wage in a positive light, saying that in terms of purchasing power, the €940 a month, seen by unions as inadequate, was in ...

Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides said on Wednesday that everything is ready for the 61st Wine Festival, which will start on Saturday and run for a week. During a press conference, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades praised the work done by the Karaiskakio foundation and pledged the government’s continued support through yearly donations at a philanthropic dinner at the Presidential Palace on ...

The remains of a fourth man killed by Eoka B, 48 years ago on July 16, were found on Wednesday in a grave on Limassol nearby a grave excavated in July, which ...

The House education committee descended into chaos amid a war of words on Wednesday with Akel MP Christos Christofides later accusing independent MP Andreas Themistocleous of debasing parliament. “Truly I ...

Two areas in Cyprus were on Wednesday declared by the cabinet as ‘white zones’, forbidding any development in the areas until September 2023, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said. The ruling affects ...

Cyprus is destined to become a desert in 50 years or even before if proper measures are not adopted, Diko MP Christos Orphanides said on Wednesday. Speaking during the House environment ...

New British High Commissioner Irfan Siddiq on Wednesday said he looked forward to strengthening ties with the island as he presented his credentials to President Nicos Anastasiades at the presidential ...

Two adult green sea turtles, named Damianos and Kostis, found injured in the sea off the coast of Limassol a few months ago, were released back in the sea on ...

In view of the coming elections the cabinet has announced a series of measures regulating visits by presidential candidates and their entourages to government organisations. According to an official announcement, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has accepted “with regret” Thomas Antoniou’s resignation as chairman of the health insurance organisation (HIO). The development on Wednesday finally came weeks after Antoniou had offered ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved the health ministry’s recommendation to proceed with the new ‘bivalent’ Covid vaccines as booster doses for those aged 12 and above. The booster (third dose) ...

Calling for an appropriate solution regarding issues plaguing the Housing Finance Corporation (HFC), Sek trade union on Wednesday said the government should be doubly worried that the organisation remains “dangerously ...

In the framework of the annual military cooperation programme between Cyprus and Israel, the exercise ‘Iason – 2022’ was held this week, the defence ministry said. The exercise took place within the ...

The report into the explosive central prisons row between its director and the now suspended head of Ykan (drug squad) is due on Thursday. Independent criminal investigator appointed to the ...