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A boat with two people on board sank off the coast of Limassol on Tuesday afternoon, with the coast guard staging a rescue.According to the Search and Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC), at 4:15, the coast guard received information about a small vessel with two people on board sinking in the...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the workshop co-organised by the Office of the Environment Commissioner and the Cyprus Network for Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility-CSR Cyprus on "Green Infrastructure and Energy Upgrading of Buildings". At this point, I would like to...

The Larnaca Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (LRCRC) announces that today, 16 April 2024 at 16:15, the LRC received information about a small boat with two passengers, which was sinking in the sea area of Limassol Bay, near the fish farms. The KSEED proceeded to implement the National Plan...

Works by Greek painters and engravers from the 19th and 20th centuries are to be donated for the creation of a municipal art gallery in Larnaca, it was announced on Tuesday.The agreement was signed by donors Charalambos and Maria Christoforou to grant part of their collection to what will be the...

The legality or otherwise of deputy ministries may be taken to court, with lawyer Christos Clerides announcing on Tuesday his intention to bring the matter before the judiciary.In a post on social media, he said, “today, we laid the groundwork for the development of our submission to the courts...

An appeals court in Larnaca has released a 43-year-old Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in a money laundering case on bail, it emerged on Tuesday.The man was released on €30,000 bail and had to surrender his travel documents to police.His name will also be included on a stop list at the...

The Cyprus Shipping Chamber (CSC) this week joined forces with other international and regional maritime organisations in demanding the immediate release of 25 innocent seafarers.The crew, aboard the Portuguese-flagged container ship MSC Aries, was apprehended on April 13, 2024, by Iranian...

A 25-year-old man from Paphos was handed a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday after having carried out two armed robberies at the same kiosk.The man committed the two robberies on March 8 and March 10, 2023, with Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou telling the...

Deputy Minister of Tourism Kostas Koumis and Ambassador Khaled Yusuf Ahmed Al Jalahma from the Kingdom of Bahrain, who is based in Tel Aviv, held a meeting on Tuesday in Nicosia, according to an announcement released by the Cypriot tourism ministry on Tuesday.During the meeting, there was an...

The social insurance fund (SIF) is financially viable until at least the year 2080, meaning there is no need to raise the age of retirement, according to the findings of an actuarial study outlined by Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Tuesday.Panayiotou said the actuarial review was carried...

The Ministry of Health informs the consumer public that the Ministry's Health Services, in the framework of the official controls carried out in the market, have taken samples of the following products, following laboratory tests carried out at the accredited laboratories of the General State...

Minister of State for Tourism: "Establishing closer cooperation with the Kingdom of Bahrain is among our objectives." A meeting with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to Cyprus Mr. Khaled Yusuf Ahmed Al Jalahma, who is based in Tel-Aviv, was held today, Tuesday, April 16, by the Deputy...

"Agrotourism in our country is on the rise" The 18th Annual General Assembly of the Cyprus Agrotourism Society, held in Platres yesterday, Monday, April 15, was attended by the Deputy Minister of Tourism Mr. Kostas Koumis. Mr Koumis made a special reference to the incentive plans of the Ministry...

Is the programme just another tool for promoting real estate? We literally live in a world on the move. People choose to migrate to other countries in pursuit of better opportunities for themselves and their families, both in terms of career advancement and better lifestyles. Others are forced...

Police in the north announced on Tuesday the arrest of two men who had embezzled over $100,000 from a casino in Kyrenia at which they were working.The pair, aged 46 and 36, had reportedly embezzled $101,089 (€95,004) from the casino by sending it a litany of forged invoices between July 2022 and...