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Authorities are investigating 12 fires that broke out almost simultaneously in remote areas in the Paphos district on Sunday, with preliminary findings suggesting that these were not coincidental but deliberate, fire ...

Cabinet on Monday approved the administration of a booster dose to adults over who have received their second anti-coronavirus vaccine six months previously. The decision was taken amid concerns regarding ...

A total of 23 people were fined in the last 24 hours for violating coronavirus measures, police said early on Monday. The fines resulted from 2,857 checks in the government-controlled areas, most of ...

Rich with a history stretching back thousands of years, Cyprus has no dearth of ghost villages, however few of them have received as much attention as Foinikas, perhaps due to ...

No deaths were announced from coronavirus on Sunday as the ministry of health recorded 206 new Covid cases. These were from a total of 40,298, representing a positivity rate of 0.51 per cent. ...

In a message to mark 38 years since the unilateral declaration of independence in the north, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday said the people there live in their own ...

By Brian Lait Back in September 2019 when Gesy was in its infancy, I wrote an article entitled “Will messy Gesy clean up its act?” Apart from lengthily commenting on the ...

A village in the Paphos district has reportedly been left without water since Thursday because the village authority cannot afford to pay the electricity bill. The village of Prastio is ...

The endemic Paphos dandelion (Taraxacum aphrogenes) has been selected by the agriculture ministry as its plant of the month as it continues its campaign to inform the public about the ...

Praise indeed for the balanced, unbiased and factual reporting as exampled in Friday’s (Cyprus Mail, November 5) edition of the Covid pages. Long may you continue this sort of freedom ...

The second informal tripartite meeting of the foreign ministers of Cyprus, Greece and the United Arab Emirates was held on the sidelines of the Sir Bani Yas Forum in Dubai ...

Thousands of bullets found in an abandoned house in Limassol on Sunday are thought to be part of the large number stolen from a container last month. According to Limassol ...

An international body running ports and airports in the north could end its isolation and help conditions for a solution One of the basic mistakes that have been consistently committed – ...

Turkish moves in Famagusta will be outlined at the EU Foreign Affairs Council to be held in Brussels on Monday, the anniversary of the universal declaration of independence in the ...

The reality of the Cyprus problem has been repeatedly said, but in an organised way some people have taken care to place the blame on the Greek Cypriot side and ...

Police in Paphos are investigating after a hire car crashed with another driven by a 44-year-old woman on the motorway at 1.50 on Sunday morning. As a result of the crash, ...

When the Republic of Cyprus joined the EU in 2004 it surrendered to the EU her sovereign right to control its borders in refugee claims. A surrender of so much sovereignty ...

A small, hard-working shop owner fined €4,000 for not checking SafePasses is the sorriest aspect of a very sorry tale Last week, my greengrocer – a small-to-medium-sized business selling fruit and vegetables – ...

A blue Black Friday looms as chip shortage bites The ongoing global supply crunch of semiconductors means that shoppers in Cyprus are left with fewer products to choose from, delays ...

I WOULD never have thought that the majority of we Cypriots are suppressed eco warriors deeply concerned about climate crisis and prepared to make big personal sacrifices to save the ...

The group of 61 irregular migrants who arrived at Paphos port on Wednesday day spent the night on the boat, authorities said early on Thursday. The group consists of 11 women, 22 men ...

Police booked 23 people during 2,871 nationwide checks for the implementation of coronavirus protocols in the last 24 hours. Most fines were issued in Limassol, where the least number of checks, 221, were carried ...

A 19-year-old was arrested on suspicion of assaulting two people with a knife over the summer, police said on Wednesday. The case was reported to the police by two men, 18 ...

A total of 27 people were booked in the last 24 hours for violating coronavirus measures, police said early on Wednesday. The fines came after 2,576 controls in the government-controlled areas carried out ...