CRIME ROUND UP

 Pafos Live 22 April 2026

Members of the Anti-Drug Service stopped for control yesterday afternoon in the area of Paphos, a car driven by a 27-year-old foreigner, with a 33-year-old foreigner as a passenger.

During the subsequent search of the vehicle, five packages containing green dry cannabis plant matter, with a total weight of about 6 grams, were found. Two packages containing a white substance, similar to cocaine, with a total weight of approximately one gram and six packages containing a white crystalline substance, similar to methamphetamine, with a total weight of approximately one gram were also found.

CYPRUS RECORDED ONE OF THE EU's LARGEST DEBT REDUCTIONS IN 2025

CYPRUS RECORDED ONE OF THE EU's LARGEST DEBT REDUCTIONS IN 2025 - Cy Mail 22/4 by Kyriacos Nicolaou


Cyprus maintains rare budget surplus as EU deficits persist

Cyprus maintained one of the strongest fiscal positions in the European Union in 2025, according to figures from Eurostat, recording a budget surplus while most member states posted deficits.

Specifically, the figures showed that Cyprus was among only a handful of countries to achieve a government surplus (3.4 per cent of GDP), alongside Denmark (2.9 per cent), Ireland (1.8 per cent), Greece (1.7 per cent) and Portugal (0.7 per cent).

Cyprus and its fellow fiscal outliers mentioned above defied the deficit-heavy trend seen across the rest of the EU.

GIBRALTAR TO ALIGN WITH SCHENGEN AREA IN TIME FOR SUMMER HOLIDAYS FOLLOWING POST-BREXIT DEAL

GIBRALTAR TO ALIGN WITH SCHENGEN AREA IN TIME FOR SUMMER HOLIDAYS FOLLOWING POST-BREXIT DEAL - The Independent 15/4 by Simon Calder

Exclusive: Treaty ‘removing all physical barriers between Spain and Gibraltar’ will take effect on 15 July


Three months from today, British travellers to Gibraltar will have to comply with EU red tape – including having their biometrics registered. The change will take place just ahead of the main school summer holidays for England and Wales.

GREECE GOES ITS OWN WAY AND DROPS EU ENTRY-EXIT BIOMETRICS FOR BRITISH TRAVELLERS

GREECE GOES ITS OWN WAY AND DROPS EU ENTRY-EXIT BIOMETRICS FOR BRITISH TRAVELLERS - The Independent 19/4 by Simon Calder

You might remember the term “Grexit”. It was floating around towards the end of the last decade when there was talk that Greece might follow the UK in taking the brave decision to leave the European Union. You will have noticed that never happened. Neither did the rumours that Greece might tumble out of the euro – abandoning the single currency in favour of a new drachma – come to anything. Talk of vaults full of freshly printed banknotes ready to enter circulation from Athens to Zante proved false.

RARE CANCER TREATMENT NOW WITHIN REACH FOR CYPRUS PATIENTS

RARE CANCER TREATMENT NOW WITHIN REACH FOR CYPRUS PATIENTS - KNews 22/4

A new door is opening for cancer patients in Cyprus, and it leads to one of the most advanced treatments available anywhere in the world.  Proton therapy, available in just 1% of hospitals worldwide, can now be accessed through Cyprus, offering more precise care with fewer side effects.


A new door is opening for cancer patients in Cyprus, and it leads to one of the most advanced treatments available anywhere in the world.

IMMIGRANTS RESIDING IN THE EU INCREASE TO 64.2 MILLION, UP 60% SINCE 2010

Germany remained the bloc's biggest host of foreign-born people at nearly 18 million • Credits: DepositPhotos

IMMIGRANTS RESIDING IN THE EU INCREASE TO 64.2 MILLION, UP 60% SINCE 2010 - Cy Mail 22/4 by Reuters News Service



The number of immigrants residing in the European Union climbed to a record high of 64.2 million in 2025, up about 2.1 million from a year earlier, according to a report published on Wednesday by the Centre for Research and Analysis on Migration at RFBerlin.

The figure compares with 40 million in 2010, the report said, citing Eurostat and U.N. Refugee Agency data.

CYPRUS FLYCATCHERS' HISTORIC ATTACK ON DISEASE

Malaria team with Aziz in middle, Melahat next to him

CYPRUS FLYCATCHERS' HISTORIC ATTACK ON DISEASE - Cy Mail 21/4 by Agnieszka Rakoczy

The little known story of the Turkish Cypriot who helped wipe out malaria

The little known story of a Turkish Cypriot health inspector credited with eradicating malaria on the island and making Cyprus the first country in the world to be free of the disease (and keep it that way) has become the subject of a new documentary.

Described in the film The Flycatcher as the “Great Liberator”, Mehmet Aziz became the chief health inspector for the British colonial government of Cyprus in the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Kalo Chorio near Larnaca in 1893, he is little known on either side of the divide, the story of his struggle against the deadly parasite having been disputed and nudged to obscurity by the claims of envious rivals abroad and further obfiscated in the fallout of the island’s political history.