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Limassol criminal court on Monday sentenced a 33-year-old man to five years in jail after finding him guilty in the manslaughter of Christakis Siakou in Moni in July. The defendant ...

The Larnaca criminal court jailed a 39-year-old man for nine years on Wednesday after he was found guilty of trafficking one kilo of cocaine. The man was arrested in June, ...

The Larnaca criminal court on Tuesday sentenced a 34-year-old and a 24-year-old to four years in prison, and a 52-year-old to one year in prison in cases concerning possession of 5.8 ...

A 70-year-old man was arrested in Limassol as the third suspect in connection with the discovery of 645 kilos of MDMA two years ago, police said on Thursday. The illegal drugs ...

Paphos police on Tuesday declined comment on allegations made by Mayor Phedonas Phedonos about an apartment block whose tenants included a drug dealer and a trafficker in migrants. “The police ...

A 53-year-old man was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm and drugs at the Ayios Dometios crossing point, police said early on Thursday. He was arrested after drug squad ...

Two Greek Cypriot teenagers are in police custody in the north pending their court appearance after they were found with almost half a kilo of cannabis in their possession, the ...

Police seized two kilos of cannabis and arrested a 36-year-old man on Tuesday after a car chase in rural Larnaca. According to drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos, the man, who ...

Reports said Wednesday a 24-year-old man who escaped from a Limassol police station early in September has been arrested in the north. No more details were immediately available. The two ...

Two people, 27 and 38, were remanded for two days on Saturday in Limassol on suspicion of importing and dealing drugs. The arrests came after police received information that two women, aged 25 ...

A 56-year-old has been arrested by the drugs squad after police found 37 cannabis plants and a number of dead wild birds in his home in the Limassol district. According to ...

Two men, aged 37 and 38, were arrested late on Sunday on suspicion of illegal possession of property and drugs. Following a tip-off, officers stopped the car of the two men for ...

Nicosia drug squad arrested two men late on Tuesday in connection with two separate cases of illegal drug possession. The first man, 27, was stopped by members of the drug squad ...

Police made a third arrest on Monday in connection with the seizure of over seven kilos of cannabis in Limassol. A 23-year-old man is the third to be arrested since ...

Police in Paphos have arrested two men for driving under the influence of drugs in two separate cases, it was announced on Monday. According to the Police, members of the ...

A second suspect, aged 18, was remanded for seven days by Limassol district court in relation to a suspected drug trafficking case for which a 21-year-old has already been arrested, police ...

An eight-day-remand order was issued against a 21-year-old man by the Limassol District Court on Friday after he was arrested with over 7 kilos of cannabis on Thursday, while police are ...

Larnaca district court on Tuesday sentenced a 22-year-old man to two years in jail for illegal drug possession and intent to sell. The man was arrested on April 2 after the ...

Eleftheria Square will be symbolically lit in purple on Tuesday evening to honour International Overdose Awareness Day, to pay tribute to those who lost their lives to overdose and recognise ...

Over 23 kilos of cannabis was found on Saturday in the luggage of a man aged 25 who flew into Paphos airport from Greece, police said. A search of the luggage uncovered 40 ...

The pragmatic v the quixotic – there are lots of ways to divide people over Covid vaccines but Theo Panayides asks what is driving people to make a decision over getting ...

Around 269 million people worldwide use drugs each year. Often forgotten in this story is a problem of basic biology. What goes in must come out. Sewers are inundated with drugs ...

A 50-year-old man who was driving drunk without a licence and under the influence of drugs injured an officer and crashed into a police car late on Monday in Paphos. ...

Developing new drugs takes time and money, which is why repurposing existing ones to fight coronavirus makes so much sense. THEO PANAYIDES speaks to a local scientist involved in a ...