Charalambos Stylianou

The Cypriot system for assessing disability is riddled with serious shortcomings and delays, MPs warned on Tuesday after a House committee session. Chair of the House labour committee Andreas Kavkalias ...

Fines totalling €35,000 have been issued to supermarkets selling imported agricultural products wrongly labelled as local, director general of the agriculture ministry Andreas Gregoriou said on Tuesday. Since 2022, when a law ...

Former president Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday continued his testimony before the Anti-Corruption Authority, marking the second consecutive day of his appearance in the ongoing investigation into allegations raised in Mafia ...

Cyprus recorded a drop in road deaths for the second year in a row, data released by Eurostat on Tuesday showed. A total of 34 people lost their lives in traffic ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday met Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro during a short working visit to Lisbon, as Cyprus intensifies preparations for its upcoming presidency of the council of ...

There will be no water cuts in Larnaca this summer, the district’s water authority announced on Tuesday. The Larnaca District Organisation (EOA) confirmed that existing water reserves, combined with ...

Fast-track clinics in A&E departments in Nicosia and Paphos general hospitals will increase the level of care on offer, Health Minister Michalis Damianos said on Tuesday. Speaking at ...

Customs officers confiscated banned pesticides and seeds found in a vehicle at the Astromeritis-Zodia crossing point, it was announced on Tuesday. The inspection took place on April 25, when officials from ...

A parked car was severely damaged after it went up in flames just before midnight in Strovolos, the fire service confirmed on Tuesday. The incident occurred in an open-air parking ...

Six teenagers appeared before Larnaca District Court on Tuesday in connection with a string of robberies committed across the district between April 21 and 26, where they were remanded for eight days. ...

Two young men were attacked and robbed in their own flat in Kato Paphos on Monday night, police said. The violent robbery happened around 10.30pm, when two masked individuals forced ...

A suspected arson attack on a car parked in a Nicosia apartment block is under investigation, police confirmed on Tuesday. The incident happened shortly after midnight in the residential area ...

Fire service receives approximately 13,000 calls annually, with 8,500 related to fires and 4,500 to humanitarian assistance, chief fire officer Nikos Logginos said on Monday. Logginos highlighted that over 90 per cent of these ...

The police on Monday issued a warning to the public following multiple reports of fraud involving individuals posing as government officials. The scammers are attempting to steal money from victims’ ...

A 23-year-old man, wanted for a series of serious criminal offences, has been arrested in Paphos after evading capture for over three months. The suspect, who had been on the ...

A new case of online fraud has come to light, with a Cypriot company losing more than €642,000 after falling victim to a sophisticated scam. The incident, which is now under ...

Authorities on Monday stepped up efforts to tackle illegal taxi operations, with dozens of violations recorded last week in Limassol and Larnaca. The campaign took place on April 14 and 15, led ...

Dealing with drought was a “matter of the highest national priority,” director-general of the ministry of agriculture, Andreas Gregoriou, said on Monday. Government is stepping up efforts to tackle drought ...

Human rights committee MPs on Monday branded the high cost of car insurance for drivers aged over 70 as “discrimination”, warning that no evidence has been provided to justify the rising ...

Mismanagement and a problematic contract are at the heart of the sewage leak plaguing Yeroskipou’s coast, the president of the Paphos district organisation (EOA), Charalambos Pittokopitis, said on Monday ...

One teacher’s mission to promote Esperanto across the island In a quiet classroom of 15 in Limassol, a language once feared by dictators is being brought back to life. Dr ...

A new bilingual publication highlighting Cyprus’ living heritage has been unveiled by the Cyprus national commission for Unesco, marking a milestone in efforts to preserve the island’s cultural identity. ...

Friday marked 21 years since Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations’ Annan plan in a landmark referendum held on April 24, 2004. In a statement issued on the anniversary, the group Adouloti Keryneia ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met with his Montenegrin counterpart, Jakov Milatovic, in Podgorica on Friday, in a visit focused on deepening ties and reaffirming support for Montenegro’s path to European ...