Our Travel Journal – Page 24
Police to launch seatbelt campaign
Police will start an island-wide campaign on Monday to ensure those travelling in cars wear seatbelts. In co-operation…
Young voter apathy ‘tragic’ yet expected
An alarming 77 per cent of young Cypriots have said they will not vote in May’s parliamentary elections mostly because…
Cyprus and France to conduct joint search and rescue exercise
A joint Search and Rescue (SAR) Exercise, titled “CYPFRA-01/16,” will be conducted on Friday, south-east of Cyprus,…
Forty fake invoices worth €200,000 found at Helector offices, Paphos court hears
Ioannis Kokotsis, the sixth suspect in the case of alleged overcharging related to the Marathounda waste management…
Green light for casino from Parliament
The House on Thursday gave the nod to the regulations governing the establishment and operation of an integrated…
Law on specific sales periods abolished
By a unanimous vote, parliament on Thursday amended the law on sales, abolishing provisions that set specific periods…
PASYDY nurses distance themselves from disgruntled colleagues
Nurses affiliated to the civil servants’ union PASYDY explicitly distanced themselves from their colleagues of the…
Electricity cable theft leads to small outage
Thirty metres of cables were stolen from two electricity poles in Psematismenos early on Wednesday. According to…
Environmental scientists to be brought in from professional wilderness
A new bill is in the works that provide for the recognition of environmental scientists as professionals in the field,…
Hope For Children and University of Nicosia medical school sign deal to help kids
The International Humanitarian and Independent Institution Hope For Children (HFC) UNCRC Policy Centre and the Medical…
Cyprus and Israel in joint military exercise
Cyprus and Israel are engaged in the annual Onisilos-Gideon military drill which has gotten underway and will carry on…
Cyprus can be a model for religious coexistence
Cyprus can be a model for coexistence between Muslims and Christians for this entire region, US Special Representative…
Entries invited to Commonwealth essay contest
Entries to the annual Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition, won last year by a Cypriot, are being invited from…
February was one of the warmest and driest on record
February this year has been one of the warmest and driest on record, the met service said on Tuesday. According to…
Laiki loans given out without enough collateral says report
Significant discrepancies existed between loans paid out by now-defunct Laiki Bank in Greece and collateral backing…
New rule on dog training
The Game Service is about to announce a new rule on training for hunting dogs, delimiting both areas and time periods,…
Nicosia town hall to be ‘greened’ for St Patrick’s Day
For the second year, Nicosia is taking part in global celebrations to mark the March 17 St Patrick’s Day, Ireland’s…
North spending more on alcohol
Money spent on alcohol in the north has jumped by nearly €6 million from 2014 to 2015. According to recent figures,…
Taxpayers paid out €3.2 million for unusable Cyprus Airways tickets
The taxpayer footed a bill of €3.3 million paid out to those who had booked tickets with now-defunct Cyprus Airways,…
Women praised in International Day addresses
International Women’s Day was marked by officials around the island on Tuesday with speeches and positive words for…
Central Bank objects to proposal to make banks liable for loan-sharking
A legislative proposal tabled at the House finance committee aims to make commercial lenders criminally liable for…
Cyprus golf tourism is par for the course
A group of professional golfers from Austria were in Cyprus recently to learn more about the country’s sporting…
Cyprus mulls ‘parcels by drone’
The thought of parcel delivery by drone would have been unheard of a few years ago, but the Cyprus Postal service has…
Floors cleared as Ledra Street’s Debenhams prepares for closure
Goods were loaded into trucks parked outside Debenhams department store in Ledra Street in Nicosia on Monday morning,…