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PANIC IN TURKISH CYPRUS AFTER TURKEY-SYRIA EARTHQUAKE

  • March 6, 2023
  • Current Events
  Many are panicking in Turkish Cyprus in the aftermath of the multiple quakes which devastated southern Turkey and happened due to movement over the very Faultline that Cyprus lays upon. Fearing aftershocks and/or other earthquakes, the government of Turkish Cyprus has speeded up the evaluation of earthquake resistance for all public buildings, especially hospitals […]

LEADERS OF DIVIDED CYPRUS NATIONS MEET IN THE BUFFER ZONE

  • March 3, 2023
  • Current Events
  Turkish Cypriot President Ersin Tatar and Nikos Christodoulides, the new President-elect of Greek Cyprus had their first meeting in the buffer zone. They, however, could not come to any conclusions regarding reunification and peace negotiations. According to a statement by the UN Peace Keeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), while the “informal” talk did not […]

POLICE ARREST 10 ILLEGAL GAMBLING

  • March 1, 2023
  • Current Events
  In the latest incident, the Cyprus police have arrested 10 people who were found gambling in a Paphos pub. The police carried out the operation, after a citizen tipped them about the activity. The ten people in question are currently in custody and being charged; their court appearance is due. They were found playing […]

ROMANIAN WOMAN KILLED IN ACCIDENT

  • February 27, 2023
  • Current Events
  A road accident claimed the life of the Romanian woman who was a permanent Cypriot resident. The woman, Adriana Mocanu, 53, was in the rear seat of a car which collided with a different car at the intersection of Neofytos Nicolaides Avenue and Gregori Afxentiou Street. Adriana was killed on the spot. The car […]

HISTORY OF CYPRUS AIRWAYS OBSERVED IN EXHIBITION

  • February 24, 2023
  • Current Events
  Cyprus Airways has been a mainstay of the Cypriot aviation sector, and its long history and legacy has now been celebrated in a brand new exhibition. The exhibition was inaugurated in Nicosia on January 9 – the date of the company’s shutdown in 2015. It continued to operate till January 13, whereupon gave visitors […]

OVER 150,000 CYPRIOTS ARE SUFFERING FROM ADDICTION, SAYS STUDY

  • February 21, 2023
  • Current Events
  Larnaca-based KENTHEA (Centre for Education about Drugs and Treatment of Drug Addictions) has revealed that no less than 150,000 Cypriots over the age of twelve are clinically suffering from substance addiction. Said substance ranges from alcohol and nicotine to psychotropic drugs & illegal substances. KENTHEA also found that this number is significantly higher than […]

SIX ROAD ACCIDENT DEATHS RECORDED IN JUST TWENTY-FOUR DAYS

  • February 18, 2023
  • Current Events
  A total of six road deaths have been recorded in all of twenty-four days. The latest of these casualties is a 24-year-old man, Kyriakos Oxynos, a recent university graduate, who was killed when his car collided first with an island, and thereafter a tree nearby. The loss of Oxynos, who was a champion footballer […]

AIR SURROUNDING CYPRUS HAS HIGH DUST LEVELS, SAY AUTHORITIES

  • February 15, 2023
  • Current Events
  The Meteorological department issued a warning, stating that the air all over Cyprus will have high dust concentrations. They further advised people to spend as less time as possible in open areas. According to the Department of Labour, the dust levels per square meter at noon are as high as 85.4 μg, 133.8 μg, […]

CYPRUS CRITICIZES “BLOODY” SYNAGOGUE ATTACK IN JERUSALEM

  • February 12, 2023
  • Current Events
  The Mediterranean Island nation of Cyprus has not held back in expressing its grief over the synagogue in Jerusalem, Israel. Cyprus’s foreign minister expressed his horror over a tweet, mourning and loss of lives and echoing the sentiments of thousands of Cypriots. In what is being considered the worst attack right at the onset […]

POLICE ARREST TWO FOR ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING

  • February 8, 2023
  • Current Events
  Cyprus Police has arrested two men who were trying to kidnap another adult male. In a statement to the press, the police stated that the two men, aged 27 and 26 were in the process of kidnapping a 30-year-old man. According to the victim, the 26-year-old man approached him, asking for his help with […]

EARTHQUAKE HITS CYPRUS

  • February 5, 2023
  • Current Events
  The island nation of Cyprus was hit by a major earthquake. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported that the earthquake, recorded 5.9 on the Richter scale, actually originated near the city Rhodes in Greece. The organization further reported that tremors of the quake were felt within a 500 km radius as far as Turkey, […]

WORKERS STRIKE IN CYPRUS

  • February 2, 2023
  • Current Events
  A country-wide three-hour strike is set to take place in the afternoon over the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) issue. The strike will involve gathering and protest marches in all major cities of the island nation, in support of indexing wages according to inflation rates automatically. The labor movement will include workers from the […]

POLICE FIND MAN GUILTY OF MURDER

  • January 30, 2023
  • Current Events
  The Cyprus Police have finally found a man guilty of murdering his girlfriend by pushing her off a cliff. The man, aged 30, was presented before a Mixed Jury Court in Syros, which collectively judged the man as guilty of committing premeditated murders. According to the case history, the man and his girlfriend, then […]

LUXURY CAR DESTROYED IN FIRE

  • January 26, 2023
  • Current Events
  A high-end car was destroyed in a fire in Pegeia. The car in question belonged to a Cypriot citizen, aged 31, living in an apartment complex in the same area. It was parked right outside the apartment where the owner resides. According to initial investigations by the fire department, the disaster seems to be […]

SECOND SUSPECT ARRESTED IN OROKLINI ATTEMPTED MURDER

  • January 22, 2023
  • Current Events
  Another suspect has been arrested in the attempted murder case in Oroklini. The Police has arrested a man, 34 in Famagusta, and are currently searching further connected with said suspect. They have also issued an arrest warrant for another man, 35, who was initially reported missing. Prior to this, another man, 31, was put […]

SCHOOL ATTACKED IN LIMASSOL

  • January 19, 2023
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  A secondary school in Limassol was attacked and vandalized. The attackers – a group of youths, threw firecrackers, Molotov cocktails, and smoke bombs. They also attacked a parked car nearby with the same weapons, which caught fire but was extinguished by a civilian before it could spread. The Police arrived on the scene not […]

CYPRUS EXPECTING ISOLATED STORMS & RAINS

  • January 16, 2023
  • Current Events
  The Cyprus Met office has announced that isolated rainfall, along with a considerable drop in temperature levels are to be expected. They further said that the week would begin with sunny skies, with temperatures of 13 and 21 degrees Celsius in the mountains and inland respectively. The week, however, will likely soon descend into […]

NUMBER OF TOURIST ARRIVALS INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY SINCE JANUARY 2022

  • January 13, 2023
  • Current Events
  The number of tourists arriving in the country has increased by a significant percentage. According to reports from the CNA, the total number of tourist arrivals in 2022 surpassed 3 million as of November 2022, which is much more than the numbers from the year prior. This, despite the war in Ukraine and the […]

POLICE LOOKING FOR YOUTH WHO FLED THEM & CRASHED THEIR CAR

  • January 10, 2023
  • Current Events
  The latest incident has the police looking for two youths first led the police on a car chase, then crashed the car and proceeded to flee the scene of the crime. According to Michalis Nikolaou, the chief of Paphos police, the incident happened just after dispatch received the report of the youths breaking traffic […]

NEW ARCHBISHOP TO BE APPOINTED IN CYPRUS

  • January 7, 2023
  • Current Events
  The Holy Synod of Cyprus has announced that the island nation’s new archbishop shall be announced soon. The announcement comes after the potential list of successors to Chrysostomos II were narrowed down to a total of three candidates. The three candidates in question are Limassol Bishop Athanasios, Paphos Bishop Georgios, and Tamassou Bishop Isaias, […]
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