All traffic cameras currently installed have passed the piloting phase and are in full operation, while a second phase is underway that will see the installation of 66 additional cameras, head of the electromechanical services said on Tuesday. The initial installations were prioritised after police studies determined the location of...

Construction works start on Monday for the redevelopment of Theoskepastis Square and the surrounding roads in Kato Paphos. According to the municipality’s announcement works are expected to last for the next three months until the end of January 2024. Roads affected include a section of Leda Street (from the Papantoniou...

The road at the arrivals level of the Larnaca Airport will remain closed to all vehicles except taxis until further notice, according to a statement by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works. According to the statement, those wishing to pick up passengers can use the road at the level of departures or the airport […]

A study on the impacts of tall buildings has been commissioned by the urban planning council of the interior ministry. According to a statement, the study, to be carried out by the architecture school of Neapolis University in Paphos, focuses on evaluating the impact of the construction of tall buildings...

The trial of five Israeli nationals accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old British woman in a hotel room in Ayia Napa started today. The defendants appeared before the Famagusta Criminal Court, where they were required to enter pleas in response to the charges they are facing, including rape, sexual assault, forced sexual intercourse, coercion into […]

The Paphos Ethnographic Museum was targeted by burglars in the early hours of Thursday. According to local news sources thieves entered the museum through a small window which had been left unlocked, and stole coins, watches and jewellery. The burglary was noticed around 1.30am by a domestic worker who lives...

Apartment owners who do not pay due common expenses in full will not be able to sell or rent them, according to a draft bill already sent to the island’s parliament. The proposed bill aims to end the prevailing anarchy via a “certificate of payment of common expenses” from one’s management committee of the condominium […]

Fuel prices are set to increase “by four or five cents per week until at least the end of the month”, according tο Christos Christodoulou, chairman of the petrol station owners’ association (Povek). Christodoulou told newspaper Politis that the primary cause of fuel increases is the “global reduction in production”....

Five Israeli tourists, including two 20-year-olds and three 19-year-olds, were ordered in custody for eight days on Monday in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a woman, 20,  from the UK in Ayia Napa. The young woman reported that a group of Israelis sexually assaulted her yesterday afternoon in a hotel room in Ayia Napa. […]

The tender for the installation of smart traffic lights will be announced on October 15, according to Transport minister Alexis Vafeades. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), he said he estimates that the lights will begin to be installed in mid-2024, with installation set to be complete in 2025....

The violent incidents in the buffer zone where UN peacekeepers were attacked between the Pyla and Arsos villages, were widely condemned in Cyprus on Friday as political parties hammered against Turkey’s actions. In total, 12 UN peacekeepers were “violently” pushed back from their positions in the buffer zone, apparently by...

For over five years now vehicle crime is still ongoing in Paphos. The Paphos police and Paphos mayor have all been made aware of this ongoing situation. Highly organised crime gangs constantly demand money after damaging people’s vehicles. Wind screen wipers are ripped off cars and replaced with the gangs’...

President Nikos Christodoulides was on Monday urged by one of his government allies to get the state-run power utility to refund people in the next batch of electricity bills to go out, claiming that the Electricity Authority (EAC) had ‘cheated’ customers out of the subsidy from May to June. In...

Ancient human remains, stone anchors and Late Roman amphorae are amongst the “significant cultural treasures” atop and near Geronisos island uncovered during a three-month archaeological programme. The antiquities department announced on Wednesday that a team of local and international experts investigated an ancient necropolis, harbour and other key sites near...

The risk of wildfires in all forest areas remains extremely high on Wednesday, the Forestry Department announced. “The public is urged to be extremely careful and to completely avoid actions and activities likely to cause a fire,” the announcement stated. Meanwhile the department of meteorology issued a new yellow warning...

Cyprus has recorded a fiscal surplus of €155.5 million, equivalent to 0.5 per cent of GDP, during the first half of 2023, according to the latest preliminary results, released on Monday by the state’s statistical service. This marks a notable improvement compared to the same period in 2022 when Cyprus...

Another hot with a blazing sunshine day on Thursday with the island’s Meteorological Service issuing a health alert. This is in effect between 11 am and 5pm. Health authorities warn that the danger of dehydration and heat stroke if outside for extended periods of time is high. In fact, the temperature will rise to 41 […]

Anecdotal evidence that numbers of loggerhead turtles increasing A team of biologists from the Mediterranean Turtle Research and Conservation Society with local youth volunteers are braving the heatwave to document this year’s turtle hatchling data. The team of researchers are currently combing the beaches from Akamas to Argaka, section by...

Ninety per cent of the Paphos forest has been closed off from public access due to extreme fire risk, Forestry Department Director, Charalambos Alexandrou announced on Friday. “We are always at our battle stations during the summer season but today we are literally with our fingers poised above the trigger,”...

Cyprus is bracing for a heatwave from Thursday, the Department of Meteorology said. The heatwave, named “Cleon” which combines high pressure and a warm air mass, is expected to affect the island from Thursday, after also hitting neighbouring countries such as Greece and Israel. Until Friday, temperatures are expected to rise well above the average […]

A 33-year-old tourist riding a quad bike fell 50 metres down a cliff in the area of Kakoskali in Akamas at around 12:30pm on Tuesday. According to police, an operation is underway to rescue the man and transfer him to Paphos hospital via helicopter. Police say an investigation is underway...