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Sixteen-year-old caught driving over twice the speed limit
Police in Famagusta district caught a sixteen-year-old boy driving over twice the speed limit on Thursday night. At around 9pm the car the youngster was driving down Modestou Panteli Street in Liopetri...
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Man driving under the influence hits presidential palace roundabout
A Paphos man nearly five times over the legal alcohol limit drove his car onto the roundabout outside the presidential palace in the early hours of Friday morning. At around 2.50am the 35-year-old...
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Road tax deadline looming
It was announced on Tuesday that September 8 (Thursday) is the deadline for the renewal of the road tax for motor vehicles. From September 9, the road transport department and police, will carry out...
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Man, 25, killed in road collision
A 25-year-old man was killed in Nicosia on Tuesday after his motorcycle collided with a car driven by a woman, 34. The accident happened on Makarios Avenue at 7.15am. Chistophoros Constantinou was...
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Sixteen-year-old dies in car crash
A 16-year-old, Dimitris Stylianou, lost his life on Thursday evening when the car he was traveling in, driven by his seventeen-year old cousin with no licence, slid off the road and smashed into an...
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Shipping the ‘steam engine of world economy’, Demetriades says
Transport Minister Marios Demetriades said that despite the financial crisis, shipping continued to be the steam engine of the world economy. Demetriades was addressing the International Maritime...
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LNG, fuel of the future for ships, transport minister says
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is the fuel of the future for ships, Transport Minister Marios Demetriades said on Friday. In his address at the conference LNG Fuelling the Future of the Eastern...
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Syllouris’ son jailed for traffic death
The Nicosia district court on Thursday sentenced Kyriakos Syllouris, the son of the House President, to one year in prison for causing the death of 26-year-old Sebastian Petros Karapateas through...
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Hijacker extradition request decision to be announced next Friday
A Nicosia court next Friday will announce its decision concerning a request from Egypt for the extradition of Seif Eldin Mustafa, accused of hijacking an Egypt Air flight and diverting it to Larnaca...
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Desperately needed speed cameras on the way
Speed cameras reduce accidents by up to 30 per cent, but it has been a struggle to get them on the roads By Angelos Anastasiou Nine years after a short-lived test-run of speed cameras in Cyprus, which...
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Cyprus second in EU for amount of trade done through shipping
Shipping was the main mode of goods transportation in a majority of EU member states in 2015, according to Eurostat. Cyprus ranked second from 28 countries in its dependence on shipping for the...
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State fleet GPS will help save over €300,000 per year
The state expects to save over €300,000 annually by installing GPS on public service vehicles to keep track of their movements, it emerged on Thursday, as an agreement was signed for the procurement of...
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Man injured in motorbike crash
A 26-year-old man from Aradippou was hospitalised on Friday night, after a motorbike crash. According to a police report, shortly before 10 pm Friday, the man had been riding his motorcycle on the...
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Taxi drivers say losing half their turnover to pirates
The head of the Nicosia taxi drivers’ association complained Wednesday that drivers were losing half their income to pirates and demanded something be done about it. Panatiotis Kylili and other...
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Hermes takes over airport security
The transport ministry on Tuesday signed an agreement with airports operator Hermes authorising it to outsource part of the security services of the island’s two international airports to private...
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BA: the fares, the fare and the not-so-fair
By Brian Lait IT HAS been expected for a long time, but by e-mail dated September 29 British Airways (BA) officially informed me (being a highly valued Executive Club member) that on all BA short-haul...
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Spending on infrastructure to rise 11 per cent
Spending on infrastructure will rise 11 per cent in 2017, MPs were told on Thursday, amid criticism over the low rate of completion of development works in 2016, which only reached 40 per cent by...
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New passenger record at airports in October
More than one million passengers travelled via the Republic’s two international airports in October, setting a new record, it was announced on Friday. “Between October 1 and October 31 this year,...
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Cyprus Airways reborn
The first Cyprus Airways aircraft arrived in Larnaca on Thursday, bearing the new airline’s livery which represents the island’s colours and symbols. “We are happy to present the first aircraft for the...
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AKEL considers new privatisation funds vote as Larnaca port deadlock looms
Transport Minister Marios Demetriades warned on Monday that the parliament’s decision to cut funds for consultancy services for privatisations may affect the long-awaited development of the Larnaca...
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