40% of students say it’s easy to get illegal drugs
Four out of ten university students say it is easy for them to access illegal substances within 24 hours if they wanted to, according to...
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Will Cyprus embrace ‘psychedelic renaissance’ for mental health?
Global research is positive but Cyprus remains resistant As society elsewhere finds itself in the grip of what has been coined as the psychedelic renaissance,...
HIO paying extortionate rates on medicines, MPs hear
The HIO is paying extortionate rates on medicines, far more than the government used to before the rollout of the national health system, it emerged...
Situation at Nicosia prison, ‘uncontrolled and dangerous’ AG says (Updated)
Management of the Nicosia central prisons is “neither adequate nor effective”, the facility is rife with drugs and criminal activity including witness intimidation both inside...
Tatar demands justice for murder of Turkish Cypriot inmate at central prisons
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Sunday demanded the identification and conviction of those responsible for the death of a Turkish Cypriot inmate at the...
Eight prisoners remanded in connection with murder of inmate
Nicosia district court on Saturday remanded eight prisoners following the murder of a 41-year-old Turkish Cypriot inmate at the central prisons. The suspects, who have...
Two kilos of cannabis seized from farmhouse, one arrested
Police seized two kilos of cannabis from a farmhouse in the Famagusta area on Saturday night and arrested the 27-year-old occupant, they said. Shortly after...
Arrest after 16kg of cannabis found
Limassol drug squad found around 16 kilos of cannabis in the Limassol house of a 41-year-old man late on Friday. The search was carried out...
Drug squad find 43g of cannabis in the mail
A package was found containing 43 g of cannabis at a mail collection centre by the police drug squad, Ykan, authorities said on Thursday. According...
Man arrested after police chase
Paphos police arrested a 34-year-old man after a high-speed chase on Mesogi Avenue, local police spokesman Michalis Nicolaou said on Thursday. Late on Wednesday night,...
