MPs piled on the pressure to Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Wednesday to come clean over the contentious investigation on the Akamas road works. The topic has been cause for fury, with Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides embroiled after he requested the report last year as part of his investigation over...
Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group DJT.O surged 17% on Wednesday, extending gains from their stellar Nasdaq debut to the second day, fueled by retail investors including supporters of former President Donald Trump. Shares of Trump-controlled TMTG, which owns his Truth Social social network, have climbed over 30% since they began trading on Wall Street on...
Lumiere Contemporary Art Gallery in Limassol presents an evocative exhibition of paintings and ceramics by Christina Drakos, aptly titled Cityscapes Mindscapes Escapes, opening on Friday and running until the beginning of summer. “This series was born from a profound sense of displacement, one that reshaped our relationship with space and...
More than 4,600 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain on small boats so far in 2024, a record total for the first three months of the year and giving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a fresh political headache. Provisional data from the Home Office, or interior ministry, showed on Wednesday that...
The Supreme Court rejected a request from two Helios orphans seeking compensation from the government over the plane crash that killed their parents, it emerged on Wednesday. The case was filed by two siblings who lost their parents in Cyprus’ worst air tragedy 19 years ago, after the Helios Airways...
Overnight security guards and CCTV cameras are set to be installed to protect schools from potential vandalism and trespassing over the Easter holidays, school boards chairman Dinos Ellinas said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, Ellinas explained that the security guards will patrol schools on nights when there is...
The Audit Office said on Wednesday the defence ministry is riddled with financial mismanagement, while the national guard is failing to follow correct safety guidelines and procedures. One of the major findings, in a special report on the defence ministry in 2022, showed government failures in the ministry making an...
Israel bombed at least three homes in Rafah overnight, raising new fear among the more than a million people sheltering in the last refuge on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip that a long-threatened ground assault could be coming. One of the airstrikes killed 11 people from a family,...
As many as 95 people are still missing after last week’s attack near Moscow when gunmen sprayed concertgoers with automatic weapons and set the venue on fire, a Russian news outlet reported on Wednesday. The official toll from the attack on Crocus City Hall now stands at 140 dead and...
The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Keve) on Wednesday successfully held its ‘Cyprus-Estonia: Promoting Bilateral Collaborations‘ event, as part of the official visit of the President of Estonia Alar Karis to Cyprus. According to a Keve statement, the main aim of the event was to strengthen bilateral relations and...
Residents of the Paphos village of Yeroskipou on Wednesday staged a sit-in protest against plans to construct a new concrete stage for its amphitheatre. They gathered at the amphitheatre, which is located in the village square, and called on the local council to “stop experimenting with the square”. The protest’s...
Two Greek Cypriots appeared in court in the north on Wednesday after having been arrested for attempting to cross to the north with guns and bullets hidden in their car. In court, a representative of the police explained that the pair had been found by police in the car park...
Parliament is set to vote on a bill which will explicitly criminalise falsely accusing police officers of crimes or conduct violations, after the bill passed through the House legal committee on Wednesday. The bill is an amendment to the law facilitating complaints against the police. Speaking after Wednesday’s committee meeting,...
Several people were killed and more injured in a coach crash on a motorway near the eastern German city of Leipzig on Wednesday, police said. “Several people were fatally injured in the serious accident on the A9 motorway. There are numerous casualties,” police in the state of Saxony said on...
Cyprus saw a decrease in net demand for new business loans in the final quarter of 2023, continuing a downward trend observed since the first quarter of 2022, albeit to a lesser extent than the decline originally expected. However, according to the Central Bank of Cyprus’ (CBC) survey on bank...
Thousands of people said that they are concerned about “fabricated miracles” within the echelons of the church in Cyprus, following the multiple scandals that have rocked the now infamous Osiou Avakoum monastery in Fterikoudes, Nicosia. According to a poll conducted online by Philenews, the majority (48 per cent) of a...
Real estate investment has long been heralded as a cornerstone of wealth building, offering both immediate income through rental yields and long-term capital appreciation. Its tangible nature, combined with the potential for leverage, makes it an attractive addition to any investment portfolio. However, the path to real estate investment success...
Police in Paphos on Wednesday made a sixth arrest in connection with a case of forged documents being imported to the island. The latest to be arrested is a 37-year-old man. The arrests began last week when police received information regarding a courier shop in the town to which forged...
A municipality in the north is set to hold a census, breaking ranks with the current ‘government’ policy of calculating populations via projection and avoiding censuses. The municipality in question is the combined Lapithos, Karavas, and Myrtou municipality, with mayor Firat Ataser announcing the move on Wednesday. He said the...
The Bank of Cyprus’ appeal against a €950,000 fine levied against them in 2014 was accepted by the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The fine had been levied by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, which found that the bank had violated “various laws” in its investment in Greek government bonds....
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Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou is set to visit other European countries to continue promoting Cyprus’ effort to reassess Syria’s status and get some areas of the country classified as safe, he said on Wednesday. Ioannou was visiting the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Larnaca, where he said that Cyprus...
The recent flurry of rumours and speculation about the health and status of King Charles III serves as a fascinating case study in the power of the internet to rapidly spread misinformation. This phenomenon reached a crescendo when Buckingham Palace found itself compelled to publicly refute claims circulating online that...
International rating agency, Morningstar DBRS this week slightly downgraded its estimates for Cyprus’ economic growth in 2024 to 2.4 per cent, compared to the 2.5 per cent forecasted in December. However, it significantly upgraded the growth projection for 2025, raising it to 2.4 per cent from the previous rate of...
British satisfaction with the state-owned National Health Service (NHS) dropped to a record low for 2023, showing the challenge for the government over a key concern for voters ahead of an election expected this year. The British Social Attitudes survey found that 24% of people were satisfied with the service...
