Tuesday, August 18, 2026
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| Summary | ⛅️ Mostly clear throughout the day. |
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| Temperature Range | 22°C to 31°C (72°F to 87°F) |
| Feels Like | Low: 77°F | High: 97°F |
| Humidity | 68% |
| Wind | 13 km/h (8 mph), Direction: 251° |
| Precipitation | Probability: 98%, Type: No precipitation expected |
| Sunrise / Sunset | 🌅 06:10 AM / 🌇 07:32 PM |
| Moon Phase | Waxing Crescent (20%) |
| Cloud Cover | 27% |
| Pressure | 1009.74 hPa |
| Dew Point | 68.68°F |
| Visibility | 5.94 miles |
Larnaca’s upgraded Pattichio Municipal Park has opened to the public after an eight-month delay, with new walking and cycling paths, viewing points, a playground and a botanical garden.
The park, the largest in area in Larnaca, was handed over to the public a few days ago after construction began in October 2023.
The project had a budget of more than €5 million.
The upgrade was delayed mainly because of changes to the original plans following strong reactions from residents, who called for less concrete to be used in the park.
The redesign focused on respecting the natural environment and strengthening the connection between visitors, the park and the nearby salt lake wetland.
A circular elevated footbridge has been built around the existing amphitheatre, creating a new walking route through the trees at the level of the leaves and a viewing area that has already proved popular to watch the sunset.
The park also has a cafe restaurant, playground and botanical garden with aromatic plants.
Two new viewing points overlook the salt lake, while new pedestrian and cycling routes, planting and information signs have also been added.
“Users, residents and visitors alike, will be able to exercise, socialise, attend cultural events and take in, from viewing points, the salt lake and the broader natural beauty of the area surrounding Pattichio Park,” the municipality said.
Existing infrastructure has also been upgraded, including walkways, entrances, lighting, street furniture and fencing.
New parking spaces and toilets have been added, while the park has been made accessible to pedestrians, cyclists and people with disabilities.
The nearby Pattichio Amphitheatre was also upgraded with new seating, while permanent 24-hour security patrols were introduced.
Mayor Andreas Vyras said public reaction to the upgraded park had generally been positive.
The official opening is expected to take place in October or November.
The €6.6 million project is co-funded by the European Union through the THALIA 2021 to 2027 cohesion policy programme.
Head of the Cyprus blood bank Androula Panayiotou warned of a shortage of blood reserves with current needs falling critically short as needs tripled available supply on Monday.
Panayiotou said that only 100 blood donors visited blood collection centres nationwide on Monday, while the current need stands at 350 blood units daily.
She added that thanks to last week’s donor turnout, a small reserve is available to meet immediate needs. However, she appealed for increased turnout in the coming days to avoid any problems in meeting demand.
Assertions that photovoltaic/solar systems are loss-making are misleading and only serve to discourage investment in ‘clean energy’, the energy minister said in a letter made public on Monday.
Michalis Damianos was responding to a formal query submitted by Akel MP Christos Christofides.
The MP asked questions about the policy of cutbacks to solar systems at times when supply exceeds demand. Given the lack of storage systems, the surplus energy is lost.
Approximately 300 gigawatt-hours of solar energy was wasted in 2025 due to grid constraints and a lack of battery storage, amounting to nearly half of the distributed renewable generation. The trend has continued into 2026, with Cyprus curtailing 162 gigawatt-hours in just the first five months.
Damianos noted that the authorities responsible for curtailments are the Transmission System Operator (TSO) and the Distribution System Operator (DSO).
Cuts are made to ensure grid stability, particularly at times when production from renewables exceeds demand and/or the technical limits of the grid. They are not intended to discriminate against any group of producers or consumers, the minister stressed.
According to practice, curtailments to renewables are at first instance implemented for large commercial systems (solar farms) and large own-consumption systems, which are capable of gradually scaling back their production. If necessary, at a later stage curtailments are enforced on smaller systems, such as rooftop solar installations.
“The spreading of inaccurate claims, such as that photovoltaic systems are loss-making, creates unwarranted insecurity among consumers, discourages new investments in clean energy, and adversely impacts businesses engaged in the renewables sector,” Damianos said.
Addressing another issue – the switch from net metering to net billing – he said this was deemed necessary for two reasons: first, so that compensation for surplus generated electricity can reflect real market conditions, and secondly, so that consumers without solar do not get disproportionately burdened by increased grid costs caused by net metering.
Nevertheless, the net billing regime, as currently applied by the Electricity Authority of Cyprus, includes first net metering within the billing period, and then net billing – and as such at this time, given that most household consumers are served by the EAC, the financial benefit for these consumers “does not differ materially from the previous regime”.
Despite this, even where constraints apply on the exporting of energy (by installing a zero-export device), provided that the sizing of a PV system is done correctly in relation to a household’s consumption profile, this can still yield savings on energy costs.
A zero-export device prevents excess solar energy from being exported to the utility grid.
The minister added that as part of the competitive electricity market – officially launched in October 2025 – electricity suppliers may shape their commercial products as they see fit and offer customers more favourable mechanisms of utilising the generated energy, “including netting schemes other than the basic net billing, provided these are compatible with the applicable regulatory framework”.
Responding to another question put to him, Damianos said that in the context of the competitive electricity market, large commercial solar parks trade in one of two ways: either via bilateral contracts with suppliers (the forward market), or directly contracting with the TSO (the day-ahead market).
A day-ahead market is a financial and physical wholesale electricity market where power producers and buyers trade energy one day before the actual delivery. Using daily blind auctions, participants submit hourly bids and offers, establishing binding schedules and clearing prices to balance supply, demand, and grid limits.
“The provision of generated electricity via bilateral contracts between producers and suppliers falls under private commercial agreements, and as such their content is confidential and is not known to the ministry,” said Damianos.
Concluding, the minister said that soon the government will publish a new grants scheme for energy storage for businesses.
Young people in Cyprus live with their parents until the age of 27 on average, a new Eurostat survey showed.
By comparison, young adults across the European Union leave their parents’ home at an average age of 26.
The updated data on the status of the youth across the EU was released on the occasion of International Youth Day. The survey concerned people aged 15 to 29.
The particular age group comprises approximately 17 per cent of the Cyprus population.
Regarding the Cyprus labour market, 55.2 per cent of young people stated that they are employed – a rate higher than the EU average of 49.1 per cent.
Meanwhile youth unemployment has fallen sharply since 2015 – from 24.5 per cent to 9.3 per cent in 2025.
A large percentage of Cypriot youth – 30.6 per cent – hold higher education qualifications, the survey showed.
At the same time, 27.4 per cent attended online courses in 2025, while 21 per cent possessed digital skills more advanced than the basic.
In addition, 99.3 per cent said they engage on social media – the highest rate across the EU.
Cypriot youth surveyed said they were generally satisfied with their life. On a scale of zero to ten, the average score they gave was 7.7.
The former migrant detention centre in Menoyia will serve as a temporary detention centre for people in police custody as part of measures to address overcrowding in police detention centres, the justice minister said on Monday.
Speaking at a meeting with representatives of the police and the public works department, Justice Minister Costas Fitiris gave instructions for the immediate launch of necessary works for the transformation of the facility, which is set to start operations in mid-September.
The measure is aimed at improving temporary detention conditions and contribute to the decongestion of existing police facilities.
Menoyia was initially used to detain foreigners, but has since been replaced by a new facility in Limnes where migrants are now gathered prior to deportation.
Heavy rains on Monday saw the fire service in Nicosia respond to several incidents including flooded basements, blocked stormwater drains and people trapped on flooded roads.
The fire service said that rainfall was concentrated in the Ayios Dhometios, Engomi, Lakatamia, Makedonitissa and Strovolos areas.
One of the worst affected places was October 28 street in Engomi.
Earlier, the police had announced a warning due to water accumulation on Grivas Digenis Avenue, urging drivers to exercise particular caution, drive at a low speed, and maintain a safe distance from other vehicles.
The fine for operating a jet ski or similar vessel without the required licence is set to increase from €85.43 to €1,500 under new legislation.
A competent official told the Cyprus News Agency on Monday that the increase was part of the new recreational navigation law, which was passed earlier this year but has not yet come into force.
The new law will also give the deputy shipping ministry the power to impose administrative fines, while police will have greater powers to issue penalties.
The current fixed penalty for operating a vessel without the required licence is €85.43.
Under the new framework, that will rise to €1,500, while an administrative fine imposed by the ministry could be even higher, the official said.
The changes come after Saturday’s jet ski collision off Protaras, in which a 17-year-old was operating a jet ski that collided with a towed inflatable carrying five people.
A 48-year-old man was critically injured, and his seven-year-old daughter suffered a skull fracture and was seriously injured.
The new legislation does not, however, simply prohibit unlicensed adults from hiring jet skis.
Since 2020, adults aged 18 and over have been permitted to rent and operate certain high-speed rental vessels without an operator’s licence, provided specific conditions are met.
“The important thing is for professionals to implement the provisions of the legislation and ensure that those renting the vessels also comply with them,” the official said.
The legislation has yet to take effect as the ministry is in the process of “completing the necessary arrangements”, before returning the bill to cabinet.
Emerging security architecture in the Middle East risks leaving Cyprus with less control over its own security as regional powers are pushed towards competing alignments, area studies analyst and research fellow at the Institute of International Relations (IDIS) in Athens Ilya Roubanis warned on Monday.
Speaking to the Cyprus Mail about the Mecca joint defence agreement signed between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan earlier this month, Roubanis said its significance for Cyprus lies less in the prospect of a new military alliance and more in what it reveals about an increasingly polarised region.
He was quick to reject comparisons with Nato, particularly suggestions that the agreement amounts to an Article 5-style collective defence commitment.
“The Mecca agreement is not an alliance,” he said, stressing that the actual document has not been released.
There is no evidence, he explained, of a joint command-and-control structure, common security policy or established framework for political coordination.
“At best this is a sum of deep bilateral relations. We should not assume that a war of Turkey, say around Cyprus, would involve Saudi troops or indeed Pakistani troops.”
Asked specifically about the Article 5 comparisons, Roubanis said much of the discussion had come from commentators rather than diplomats or foreign ministries.
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan already had a deep bilateral defence relationship before the latest agreement, meaning it could, in some respects, be viewed as the existing Saudi-Pakistani relationship with a Turkish component added.
The same caution applies to speculation that Saudi Arabia could benefit from Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent.
“One should distinguish between facts and thought,” he said, describing discussion of an Article 5-style guarantee as “largely hot air”.
What is real, however, is deepening defence-industrial cooperation.
“There is deep and ever-expanding cooperation of the military-industrial complex of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. This is real, this is tangible, and it’s ever deepening.”
Turkey also maintains substantial defence relationships with countries including the UAE and Qatar, illustrating that the region is developing overlapping networks rather than clearly defined military blocs.
“There is no multilateralism here. There are strong networks. There are complementarities between these partners,” Roubanis said. “Military cooperation is real. But this is not Nato.”
For Cyprus, the concern is therefore not that Saudi or Pakistani forces could automatically become involved in a confrontation involving Turkey, but the wider political realignment taking place around the island.
Roubanis said an emerging divide was crystallising between Israel and the UAE on one side and Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey on the other.
Caught between them are countries including Egypt, Jordan and Oman, which have relationships and dependencies spanning both sides.
“Cyprus is likely to find itself in a polarising environment with neighbours that need to make mutually exclusive choices,” he said.
Nicosia could consequently have “less control over its own national security policy because a lot of its national security will depend on the goodwill and fortune of others”, both allies and adversaries with whom it does not have symmetrical relationships.
“So it’s a bad day for Cyprus because it has less control over its own destiny.”
Egypt is particularly important in this equation given its close strategic, energy and security relationship with Cyprus.
Asked about Cairo’s absence from the agreement, Roubanis said Egypt had been invited to join.
Egypt maintains a strategic relationship with Israel while simultaneously depending heavily on its Gulf relationships, including with Saudi Arabia and the UAE. It also relies on the Suez Canal as a major source of revenue.
Choosing between Israel and Saudi Arabia could therefore be “devastating for its national security”, he said.
Joining the agreement could be interpreted as “a statement of regional agency and a commitment against both Israel and the Emirates”, something Cairo cannot readily afford.
While its relationships with Cyprus and Greece matter, Roubanis said Israel and the UAE inevitably carry greater weight among Egypt’s immediate security priorities.
For Cyprus, Roubanis said, the European question may prove more consequential.
He described the Mecca agreement as “a statement of regional agency for regional issues” at a time when the EU is being forced to reconsider its own role in an increasingly multipolar world.
He expressed doubts over whether the bloc could establish a consolidated security position towards its southern neighbourhood, but said Cyprus and Greece could no longer remain on the sidelines of that debate.
“They cannot anymore hide behind the normative, legalistic, procedural process of vetoing or nodding or agreeing. They have to address challenges,” he said.
“I’m not sure that either Athens or Nicosia are ready for that.”
Britain’s presence in Cyprus adds another layer, particularly following the drone strike at RAF Akrotiri in March.
Asked what the changing regional order means for Britain’s Sovereign Base Areas, Roubanis questioned London’s longer-term purpose in the region.
“What is the purpose of the British presence in Cyprus?” he asked.
“The British position in Cyprus is about being able to project power in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean.”
But why a middle power such as Britain, which also has deep ties with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, continues to need that ability is becoming an “existential question” for London, he said.
Paphos Mayor Angelos Onisiforou on Monday called for immediate action over work being carried out between Anavargos and Armos, claiming the hillside was being “demolished” without the required planning permission.
Onisiforou said the work was continuing during the holiday period and accused the owner of taking advantage of the holidays to continue undisturbed.
“He even takes advantage of holidays so that the work can be carried out undisturbed and completed,” he said.
He described the situation as “unacceptable” and called on the authorities to intervene immediately.
The complaint concerns a private plot where extensive excavation and levelling have taken place, creating large slopes and deep cuts into the land.
Paphos district government organisation (EOA) president Charalambos Pittokopitis previously said a decree was being prepared to order the suspension of the work.
He said the works required planning permission because of the scale of the excavation and the slopes created, but no permit had been obtained.
The decision followed an earlier complaint by Onisiforou, who said the owner had already been ordered three times to stop the work but had failed to comply.
The mayor has called for the site to be dealt with as a matter of urgency, citing the need to protect the surrounding environment.
Torrential rain is causing limited visibility on the Nicosia-Limassol highway, particularly around Kornos and Kofinou, police said on Monday afternoon.
Drivers were urged to exercise particular caution, reduce their speed and keep a safe distance from vehicles ahead.
Police also advised motorists to use their headlights while driving through the affected areas.
The rain is currently affecting visibility along parts of the highway, with authorities urging drivers to adjust their speed to the conditions.
A fire broke out in a car owned by a 36-year-old woman in the Aglandjia are of Nicosia on Monday.
According to police, the fire occurred at around 12.30pm
Members of the police and fire service arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire.
Investigations into the cause of the fire are ongoing.
Police have sought the opinion of the legal service on whether journalist Makarios Drousiotis can collect money raised through his crowdfunding appeal to cover his legal costs.
The request was made after the fundraising authority referred the matter to police.
Drousiotis launched the crowdfunding campaign to raise money for his legal defence and said on Sunday that it had collected over €50,000 within 36 hours.
According to Drousiotis, €46,586.49 remained after platform and payment fees, with a further €3,188.14 transferred to a Revolut account used for the campaign and €3,100 in cash due to be added.
He said the money would be used exclusively for the purpose for which it was donated and that all accounts, documents and payments would be audited by an approved firm, with the report made public.
The campaign has raised legal questions because of the island’s fundraising legislation.
Lawyer Simos Angelides said the appeal did not appear to fall within the legislation as currently written.
“Based on the law as it currently stands, this crowdfunding campaign does not appear to fall within the interpretation of the legislation,” he said.
Drousiotis’ lawyer Maria Theristi has argued that the appeal concerns “the expenses of a specific court case and his personal legal defence” rather than a charitable or social cause.
The interior ministry referred the matter to police after the campaign came to its attention.
Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou has said no prosecution would follow if authorities established that the appeal does not fall under the legislation.
Drousiotis is facing criminal proceedings in a case involving a woman known as Sandy, as well as separate proceedings concerning alleged personal data offences arising from Mafia State.
He has denied the allegations and described the prosecution as “vindictive in nature”.
The journalists’ union (ESK) has also raised concerns over the cases and their implications for freedom of expression.
Rainfall in the free areas of Cyprus has reached 41 per cent of the average amount for August, the meteorology department reported on Monday.
The average rainfall recorded from August 1 to 9am on Monday was 1.2mm, compared with the monthly normal of 2.9mm.
The highest totals were recorded in Saittas, with 13.9mm, equal to 103 per cent of average, and Platania with 13.2mm, or 96 per cent.
Athienou recorded 9mm, or 360 per cent of average, while Lythrodontas received 7mm, or 233 per cent.
Rain and thunderstorms were reported in several areas on Sunday, with hail also recorded in some places.
The unsettled weather is expected to continue until Wednesday.
The meteorology department forecasts local showers and isolated thunderstorms on Wednesday, mainly in the mountains and inland, with hail possible in storm areas.
Temperatures will gradually rise, reaching seasonal averages by Thursday.
Pilots have reported unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs) over Cyprus, including a sighting involving six crew members on a flight south of the island.
As reported by Euronews, the Cyprus incident was described by Dutch airline pilot Rob Ackermans, who said he and five other crew members observed unusual lights for more than two hours during a flight from the Middle East to the Netherlands in 2023.
Ackermans said the phenomenon first appeared while the aircraft was south of Cyprus.
“We saw a light suddenly become very bright and then slowly fade away,” he said.
“The strangest thing was that one of the three lights would sometimes manoeuvre around the others. It looked like a chase, what the air force calls a dogfight, and then two or all three would disappear again.”
The crew initially considered whether the lights could have been connected to a military operation over the Balkans.
However, Ackermans said the phenomenon remained visible in the same direction after the aircraft reached the Balkans.
One of his colleagues reported seeing the same phenomenon from the Netherlands the following day.
Euronews said the European Commission had become more active in monitoring UAP reports, citing a response from its defence department to two amateur astronomers in Malaysia who had submitted images of 37 unexplained objects.
The reports concern phenomena officially described as UAP, a term increasingly used instead of UFO.
There is at present no evidence that such sightings are extraterrestrial in origin.
Another pilot, Christian van Heist, described a separate incident over Greece in 2005, when he and colleagues saw a bright light moving at what appeared to be extremely high speed.
The sighting occurred around the time the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier was enroute to the Persian Gulf, in preparation for the second Gulf War.
France is currently the only EU member state with a dedicated state funded centre for investigating UFO reports.
The appeals court on Monday ordered the extradition of a Russian national to Russia to face trial over alleged fraud involving a state funded space programme worth more than €160 million.
The ruling overturns an earlier decision by Paphos district court that had rejected the extradition request.
The court also ordered his detention until he is handed over to Russian authorities.
The case concerns a major Russian space programme funded by the government with 15.15 billion roubles.
The man, who worked for a Russian space company and is believed to have held a senior role in decision making, is accused of helping ensure that a particular company was awarded a 1.32 billion rouble contract without a competitive tender.
About 478 million roubles was allegedly used for the project, while around 840 million roubles, worth about €7.8 million, was allegedly distributed among members of the group and transferred through financial transactions.
The man was arrested in Cyprus in November 2024 under a provisional warrant.
The justice minister authorised extradition proceedings the following month, however Paphos district court rejected the extradition request in November 2025, saying it had not been shown that the Russian arrest warrant was still in force.
The attorney general appealed, arguing that the warrant remained valid, to which the appeals court agreed, finding no legal basis for concluding that the warrant had expired.
The judges said the evidence had not been properly considered by the lower court and was important to the case.
The man had also challenged the extradition request, arguing that the warrant did not contain a criminal case number and that no official copy had been provided.
The court has rejected those arguments, finding that the missing case number does not affect the validity of the warrant.
The man further argued that Russian authorities had withheld important evidence concerning proceedings against alleged accomplices.
The court found no specific risk that his fundamental rights would be violated if he was extradited.
The Greek Cypriot side is seeking a “substantive discussion” when President Nikos Christodoulides meets Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman next week, competent sources said on Monday.
The two leaders are due to meet on August 26.
Sources told the Cyprus News Agency that the aim was to hold a substantive discussion on the issues addressed during the UN Secretary-General’s visit to Cyprus, with particular emphasis on preparations for the next expanded meeting on the Cyprus problem.
Guterres visited the island in late July, during which time he met both leaders and announced a new enlarged meeting would be held if the right preconditions were met.
Meanwhile, the negotiators of the two sides are expected to meet in the coming days to prepare for the leaders’ meeting.
Speaking on CyBC radio, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said the meeting between the two leaders would be approached by Christodoulides with a “constructive attitude”, with the government seeking progress on issues including the opening of new crossing points.
Declarations of willingness to reach a Cyprus settlement cannot produce results unless the two sides first agree on the nature of the problem, Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said last week.
He said he agreed with repeated comments by Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman that the Turkish Cypriot side is committed to finding a solution to the Cyprus problem.
But he questioned why decades of negotiations have failed to produce a settlement despite both sides repeatedly stating that they want a solution.
A 19-year-old woman was arrested in Ayia Napa on Sunday evening after she reportedly shouted at and insulted officers carrying out traffic duties, police said on Monday.
The incident happened at about 10.50pm when the woman approached officers and began shouting and insulting them.
Officers attempted to arrest her for the alleged offences, but police said she resisted and assaulted an officer during the arrest.
She was taken to Ayia Napa police station and charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, insulting, causing a disturbance, and disturbing the peace.
The woman was later released and is due to appear in court.
Investigations into Saturday’s jet ski collision in the Famagusta district are examining the circumstances under which a 17-year-old was operating the vessel when it collided with a towable inflatable carrying five people, leaving a man critically injured and his seven-year-old daughter seriously hurt.
Kyriakos Aliouris, an official at the deputy ministry of shipping, told the Cyprus Mail on Monday that the investigation remained at a preliminary stage.
“The vessel is a Category B vessel. Initially, the 18-year-old was driving and afterwards the 17-year-old,” he said. Aliouris said that a 17-year-old holding a learner’s licence must be accompanied by someone over the age of 18 who holds the appropriate licence for the Category B vessel.
Five people were on the inflatable, two men aged 48 and 43 and three children aged 13, 11 and 7.
The seven-year-old daughter of the 48-year-old suffered a skull fracture and was transferred to Makarios hospital in Nicosia, where she was admitted in a serious but stable condition.
Her 48-year-old father was taken to Nicosia general hospital, where he remains in critical condition.
Under the Recreational Navigation in the Republic and Other Related Matters Law of 2026, which was passed earlier this year, a learner’s operator licence can be issued from the age of 17, while a full operator licence requires a minimum age of 18, completion of approved training and successful examinations.
The law generally allows a learner to operate a vessel provided they are accompanied by someone holding the appropriate licence for the vessel and navigation area.
However, the legislation also contains separate provisions allowing people without an operator’s licence to use certain Category B rental vessels, including personal watercraft, under specified conditions.
Article 27 allows an unlicensed person, subject to conditions laid down in regulations, to operate Category B personal watercraft offered for hire by a water sports business for a geographically and time-limited trip, provided the vessel falls within prescribed power and speed limits.
Asked how this applies in practice, Aliouris said both tourists and Cypriots can sign a binding declaration before renting such a vessel.
“In the case of a tourist, but this also applies to Cypriots, you sign a binding declaration,” he said.
“The binding declaration is co-signed by the person renting it and the owner. It is clear that the declaration is signed after some training has taken place before the vessel is rented.”
The law itself provides that where the operator of a Category B vessel does not hold either an operator’s or learner’s licence, they must carry the binding declaration required under the relevant regulations. It also places an obligation on water sports businesses to ensure that legal and regulatory requirements are met before a vessel is rented out.
The circumstances surrounding the rental, what training was provided, who signed the relevant documentation and how the jet ski came to be operated by the 17-year-old are among the issues now potentially relevant to the investigation.
Aliouris also clarified that the towable inflatable involved in the collision was being operated under the responsibility of the water sports company. “The towable inflatable is also Category B and the operator is the company,” he said.
Police spokesman Vyron Vyronos told the Cyprus Mail that Paralimni police station was investigating “all aspects of the case to establish whether any offences arise”.
The collision occurred on Saturday when the jet ski, being driven by the 17-year-old with the 18-year-old as passenger, collided under circumstances still under investigation with a towable inflatable, commonly known as a “sofa”.
The 2026 legislation also provides for potential responsibility on the part of a vessel owner or representative where they expressly or implicitly allow a vessel to be used in a manner constituting an offence, unless they can demonstrate that they were unaware of the offence and that it did not result from their own act or omission.
No determination has yet been made that an offence was committed in Saturday’s incident, with both police and the deputy ministry investigation ongoing.
A newborn kitten was rescued by a Nicosia district emergency response team during heavy rainfall in Dali on Sunday, authorities said on Monday.
According to alphanews.live, three teams were deployed to the Idalion area to clear blocked gutters and deal with problems in the storm drain system.
During works, one of the teams found a kitten in the road and an employee with a nursing cat took it home to care for it.
Police have launched an investigation into the causes of two fires that broke out in Lysos on Saturday, following concerns from the forestry department that the incidents may have been deliberately started.
The investigation comes after the department’s director Savvas Ezekiel said on Sunday that repeated fires in Paphos were raising concerns about possible arson.
The two fires that broke out in Lysos yesterday were reported around 500 metres apart, with the first breaking out at about 4pm in the Potamoudes area.
It burned approximately seven hectares before being brought under control at around 6pm.
A second fire broke out shortly afterwards in the Mersinia area.
Forestry department spokesman Glafkos Kyriakou said on Saturday that “the two incidents point to a malicious act”.
Ezekiel informed that the two outbreaks came amid a series of fires reported in recent years between Droushia and Prodromos, as well as in Skoulli and now Lysos.
“We cannot have five fires starting from Droushia to Prodromos as consecutive incidents,” he remarked.
“The phenomenon in this ‘triangle’ that I mentioned to you occurs every year. Why does it happen every year? Something is up and we must identify it.”
He said the repeated incidents required closer investigation, further commenting that he was prepared to submit proposals concerning the area at forthcoming meetings.
| I was writing a status page for phpscript, and kept upgrading it to the point I wanted to make it reusable between projects, as a quick live view. It was too nice to keep it hidden away under internals. If you want to start with observability without pulling in opentelemetry or run additional services, oida lets you collect traces and view them, monitor memory usage, GC. The initial implementation was meant to be closer to lighthttp/nginx status page where you can see requests in flight. I spent a lot of time polishing the front end, migrated to templ, and spent too much time on timeline visualizations (discarded several other attempts - voronoi, voxels, circles, lines, and timeline). It outgrew the basic use case. I used claude to assist with migrating/updating/extracting the package from phpscript, usage docs. I did heavy manual QA as well, polishing it for usage. Would love some adoption by solo devs or small teams, people doing local development who maybe don't have telemetry at all. If you're missing something, shout out! Edit: here are the screenshots, to save you a click. [link] [comments] |
Hi all, it's been a while since I've added any new content to LGWT! Here's a small chapter on testing/synctest. Hope it's useful.
https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests/build-an-application/revisiting-time-with-synctest
This is the weekly thread for Small Projects.
The point of this thread is to have looser posting standards than the main board. As such, projects are pretty much only removed from here by the mods for being completely unrelated to Go. However, Reddit often labels posts full of links as being spam, even when they are perfectly sensible things like links to projects, godocs, and an example. r/golang mods are not the ones removing things from this thread and we will allow them as we see the removals.
Please also avoid posts like "why", "we've got a dozen of those", "that looks like AI slop", etc. This the place to put any project people feel like sharing without worrying about those criteria.
So i have a CLI app built with go , really simple one actually I start the program I get menu option I enter input something happens .
But i want to change it to make it like a tool that runs in background and i enter toolname to access its functionality through terminal anytime . I have never made something like this so i though I could ask community for help
I have been working on Stackdome, a self hosted application delivery platform. (Currently in Alpha). Think of it like a railway equivalent that you can run on your own infra or locally.
Repository: https://github.com/Stackdome/Stackdome
With Stackdome, you can deploy an application from GitHub, connect multiple services visually, add a managed database, create preview environments.
The go control-plane packages the whole application as a "Stack" (A new custom resource created by stackdome) and deploys it on k8s. Each deployment happens as a release and can be rolled back.
Basically, the idea is to package the tooling in the CNCF/cloud-native ecosystem into an opinionated platform, so that developers can get a well engineered platform without learning Kubernetes YAMLology or a dozen other projects from the CNCF landscape.
Architecture:
Stackdome has a hub and spoke architecture. Hub is the control-plane and spokes are the k8s clusters (Which run our custom controller which lifecycles our CRs). The hub can place the workloads in clusters. (Currently we support only one cluster, but the architecture is supports multicluster).
- The hub exposes a REST API, stores application and release state in PostgreSQL.
- Establishes controller runtime watches for each of the registered cluster using a cluster manager.
- We also use client-go rate-limted queues in the hub to "reconcile" the desired resources from the backend on to the cluster. See: https://github.com/Stackdome/Stackdome/blob/main/pkg/worker/types.go
You can use this command to setup Stackdome on a bare linux server:
`curl -fsSL https://get.stackdome.com/install.sh | sudo sh`
One cool thing about the installer is that it uses stackdome constructs to install itself.
So we dogfood our own constructs to run stackdome. :))). [See it here]
Or you can use our cloud playground at cloud.stackdome.com
Steps to run it locally: https://github.com/Stackdome/Stackdome/blob/main/DEVELOPMENT.md
Hey all. I just release v0.6.2 for dskDitto. It now supports ref-links as a deduplication mode so as long as your filesystem supports them.. Check it out if your heart so desires! The project is hosted on GitHub:
https://github.com/jdefrancesco/dskDitto
Cheers!
I've been working on this pet project for a few months now, is a distributed cache you import directly into a Go service instead of running as a separate process or sidecar. Currently using it on a couple of my other projects.
A few design notes if you're into the internals:
It's deliberately not trying to be Redis, no persistence (outside replication rebalancing), eventually consistent. It's aimed at session caches, rate limiters, presence tracking, leaderboards, job queues, etc. things where staleness or a restart-loss is fine and you'd rather not stand up a separate service.
Repo: https://github.com/EmilioRosiles/hive
Would love feedback on the API and config defaults, and bug reports/feature requests are welcome.
I just added a new "New in Go" feature to the open-source Go Interview Practice platform.
Instead of just standard release notes, it pairs explanations of new Go features (like os.Root, synctest, new(expr), and errors.AsType) with interactive hands-on coding challenges.