The government of Cyprus is getting rid of the mandatory requirement for visitors to show up with their vaccination or recovery certificates for COVID-19. The government is also removing the requirement for people to wear face masks in all indoor spaces. This of course does not include hospitals, nursing homes or any other indoor […]
The Cyprus police has arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with the fire which broke out in the night near the village of Dierona in Cyprus’ Limassol District, near to the state forest. According to the Cyprus News agency, the firefighters went on scene almost immediately after the fire broke out and were successfully […]
The Cyprus government is putting the full strength of its aviation capabilities into its firefighting efforts in Kantara. The country has sent a helicopter and two firefighting planes after the Turkish Cyprus authorities requested help to fight the disaster, which is taking place on the eastern part of the Kyrenia mountain range. In response […]
The Cypriot government has launched an inquiry into the alleged accusations from the country’s prisons’ director. The allegation in question is about a senior police officer who recruited an inmate for the purpose of gathering information about her private life and using the same to blackmail her. Lawyer Achilleas Emilianides has been appointed by […]
The Cyprus police has arrested two people, aged 41 and 40 in Paphos for physically assaulting a 46-year-old man. According to a spokesman for the police, the incident came to the police’s attention after the 46-year-old filed a complaint explaining how he was attacked by the two people while he was spending time with […]
The Pournara Reception Center in Kokkinotrimithiathe saw two fires breaking out within the span of a single day. The incidents, each of which took place on consecutive mornings, had the fire service sending out fire engines with expert personnel. While they did manage to put out the fires, the building sustained major damages. Investigations […]
The recent spate of strong winds that have been blowing all over the island nation have intensified, greatly increasing the chance of vehicular accidents. For this reason, the Cyprus police are actively urging people to drive slower and be extra careful when on the road. According to them, a vehicle with higher velocity makes […]
The results of the spring Eurobarometer of the European parliament has revealed that as less as 54% of participants in the island nation of Cyprus agree with the sanctions against Russia, as opposed to European Union average of 80%. Parallelly, as many as 80% of Cyprus citizens also believe that the Russian invasion in […]
The island nation of Cyprus has established a sea link with Greece – something that hasn’t been done in the last 21 years. According to president Nicos Anastasiades, who attended the ceremony that marked the launching of the sea link, the event is indeed historic. He called the connection between Cyprus and Greece an […]
A major traffic accident that occurred this morning in Limassol has left a 59-year-old woman in critical condition. The accident in question, which took place at Promachon Eleftherias street involved a car hitting said woman, who at that time was crossing the road. The woman, who was gravely injured on spot was first transferred […]
The District Court in Limassol, Cyprus has sentenced a 23-year-old man to a 15 months prison term for negligence that led to a major car accident. The accident in question, which occurred right after 12am on the 14th of September in 2020, had the 23-year-old as the driver of a car with an 18-year-old […]
A 72-year-old man in Paphos is in serious condition in the hospital after falling from his balcony. The man, a pensioner, was trying to climb up his balcony, which stood at two-meter-high, to get into his home as he had accidentally locked himself out. After neighbors informed the police, he was found and taken […]
The Cyprus police has arrested a 25-year-old British nation in connection to the traffic accident that led to the death of a Swedish tourist. The man was allegedly driving the dune buggy that struck the tourist on a crosswalk in Ayia Napa and killed him on the spot. The man, who will not be […]
The Courts in Cyprus have charged a 30-year-old in their investigations into the incidents that happened during the Anorthosis-Apollon football match, which led to a 20-year-old man getting gravely injured. The suspect in question willingly surrendered himself to law enforcement once the police published the information of the ten people who are wanted in […]
The Cyprus Police caught a driver driving much higher than the speed limit, and then discovered that he was under the influence of narcotics the whole time. At around 3am, the police caught the 27-year-old man speeding along the Kofinou-Larnaca motorway at 174 kph, much higher than the prescribed 100 kph limit. The police […]
The Cyprus Police have arrested a man for allegedly conducting a robbery at knifepoint at a hotel. The man, 26, is a Cypriot citizen who wore a hood, entered a hotel, threatened one of their employees with a knife, and forced him to give up his car. Paphos Police Director Nikos Tsappis has said […]
The Police in Cyprus has arrested a 22-year-old man who has reportedly confessed to having raped three women in the Ayia Napa area during the months of April and May. According to a statement from the police, the discovery was part of an ongoing investigation, which started when the police received complaints from three […]
The world has been seeing the concept of the four-day work week for a while now, and Cyprus is the latest country to see new plans being implemented surrounding this. For the first time on the island nation, PwC Cyprus has launched the four-day work week system for its employees during July and August. […]
A man died after choking on a piece of meat while having dinner in a restaurant. The man, 43, was having dinner at a restaurant in Germasoyia when he choked on said piece of meat. He panicked and asked someone nearby to give him a blow to the back to solve the problem. When […]
Community Democratic Party’s (TDP) leader Mine Atli has been ordered to pay a bond worth €3,000 for having “slandered” the name of Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar in public. Atli is required to pay the bond as part of the proceedings of the charges being pressed against her by Tatar, who claims that the […]
