Eleni Panayiotou

Persistently high temperatures and recent rainfall have created favourable breeding conditions for mosquitoes across Cyprus, while monitoring has shown their numbers increasing over the past three years, health services said. ...

Israel sees Cyprus as an increasingly important defence partner and believes there is clear potential for the two countries to deepen cooperation between their defence industries, including through joint projects ...

Neither diesel nor natural gas can provide a long-term answer to Cyprus’ energy needs, Cyprus Institute president Stavros Malas said on Friday, stressing the need to develop sustainable energy storage ...

Cyprus and the New Jersey National Guard are looking to expand their defence cooperation into additional areas under the US State Partnership Programme (SPP), Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on ...

The ultimate solution to longstanding flight safety problems affecting the Nicosia FIR (flight information region) lies in resolving the Cyprus problem, acting director of Civil Aviation Haris Antoniades told the ...

A British father who lost his young son in a fall from a Paphos hotel appeared in court on Thursday, a day after what would have been the child’s ...

A British father charged following the death of his three-year-old son in a fall from a Paphos hotel is due before court on Thursday, as the defence awaits a decision ...

The deadline for employers to submit their annual PAYE returns for the 2025 tax year has been extended to November 30, 2026, the tax department announced on Wednesday. The department said the extension ...

The cabinet on Wednesday appointed Nikos Tornaritis as President Nikos Christodoulides’ special political envoy for the Cyprus problem to countries in Asia and Africa. According to the presidency, Tornaritis will ...

Staff at the culture ministry staged a one-hour spontaneous work stoppage on Wednesday morning, protesting against what Pasydy described as repeated attempts by the ministry’s director-general to bring its ...

There is a prospect for “concrete steps” towards progress on the Cyprus problem ahead of meetings in New York, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Wednesday, adding that the Greek ...

Journalist Makarios Drousiotis and Kyriaki Kyriakou, also known as Sandy, were on Wednesday referred directly to the Nicosia criminal court for trial in connection with the “Sandy” case, which involves ...

Nursing staff at Larnaca general hospital staged a one-hour work stoppage on Wednesday morning in protest over longstanding problems, including overcrowding and staff exhaustion. The spontaneous stoppage, held between 8am ...

The high-profile “Sandy” case goes before court on Wednesday, with Makarios Drousiotis and Kyriaki Kyriakou also known as ‘Sandy’ appearing before Nicosia district court for proceedings to refer the case ...

Cyprus and Lebanon will on Wednesday hold their first technical meeting on a feasibility study for a proposed subsea electricity interconnection, with the participation of the World Bank, according to ...

Rain and a possible isolated thunderstorm are expected over the mountains on Wednesday, ahead of a weather disturbance which is forecast to affect Cyprus on Thursday and Friday. Wednesday will ...

Beaches across Cyprus are expected to be left without lifeguard coverage on Thursday as hourly-paid government workers stage a 24-hour nationwide strike, the interior ministry warned on Tuesday. The ministry ...

A revised proposal for the allocation of water for irrigation purposes will be submitted to cabinet on Wednesday by Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis, taking into account the current hydrological situation ...

Cyprus will pay €25 million towards the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) once a Navtex is issued for the resumption of survey work, President Nikos Christodoulides said in an interview on Plus ...

The Supreme Court will examine whether police can access telecommunications data held by providers for commercial or billing purposes when investigating and prosecuting serious criminal offences. A Supreme Court judge ...

The high-profile “Sandy” case will go before court on Wednesday, with Makarios Drousiotis and Kyriaki Kyriakou due to appear before the Nicosia district court for proceedings to refer the case ...

A man accused of the murder of 22-year-old Bangladeshi student Shahruar Ahmed Emon pleaded guilty to all three charges against him before the Larnaca criminal court on Monday. The defendant, ...

Police seized another 263.5kg of ketamine in Limassol on Monday, as investigations continued into the seizure of more than 126kg of the drug two days earlier. The latest haul was ...

Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelaou held a substantive meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman’s special representative Mehmet Dana on Monday afternoon, ahead of this week’s meeting between ...