Sarah Ktisti

Tourism revenue for February increased by 42.9 per cent over last year, the island’s statistics department (Cystat) said on Tuesday. Revenue from tourism reached €56.6 million in February 2023 compared to €39.6 mn in the same month the previous year. For the period of January-February 2023, revenue from tourism is…

An overhaul of school bus safety criteria is on the cards in light of an incident on Wednesday involving a school bus packed with school children skidded across the motorway when it lost one of its wheels, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeadis said on Friday. Vafeadis told reporters that he would…

Medical experts and cancer patients alike hope to see new and innovative diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the disease on the island with the inauguration of the Nicola David-Pinedo Cyprus Cancer Research Institute (CCRI) on Monday. President Nikos Christodoulides, who attended the ceremony hailed the creation of a “pioneering research…

Around a third of tourist nights spent in Cyprus, and the EU, in 2022 were recorded in July and August, data released by Eurostat on Wednesday showed. On an EU wide basis, 18 per cent of overnights in 2022 were recorded in August and 16 per cent in July. The…

Traffic police caught a 35-year-old man driving at almost triple the speed limit on a Limassol road on Tuesday night. According to a police report, shortly before 10pm, the man was driving at a speed of 130 km/hour on Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, which has a 50 km/h limit, when he…

A group representing the Ukrainian community in Cyprus on Thursday boldly urged the president and authorities on the island to crack-down and shutdown any pro-Russia support and rallies organised on the island. In an open letter to President Nikos Christodoulides, the head of the Ukrainian-Cypriot Friendship Community, Tetyana Ioannou, expressed…

Nicosia was the focus of discussions on Friday to come up with ideas that will inject some new life and a new interest in the historic city. The island's interior minister Constantinos Ioannou on Friday convened a wide-ranging meeting in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Tourism Costas Koumis…

Political parties in Cyprus on Friday exchanged sharp words in response to Thursday's controversial debate on foreclosures. After a fiery debate in the House of Representatives on Thursday, the plenum voted down two bills which the government and banking authorities had warned could threaten the financial system as well as…

Firefighters in Paphos safeguarded homes from a fire that broke out on Friday near the community of Polemi in Paphos. According to the Cyprus News Agency (Cna), local's homes were saved thanks to the immediate intervention by the fire brigade, meanwhile, firefighters remain on alert in case of any flare-ups…

The island's national broadcaster Cybc on Friday held a small ceremony in honour of the outgoing National Guard chief, Lieutenant General Demokritos Zervakis. Defence minister Michalis Giorgallas and chairman of Cybc Giorgos Kentas were also present at the event to mark Zervakis' long service on the island. Kentas praised the…