Gina Agapiou

Cyprus reached an agreement with Bangladesh on Saturday that will immediately expedite procedures for the return of Bangladeshi nationals from the island to their home country. The agreement was signed ...

Justice Minister Stephie Dracou on Friday listed seven strategic goals as part of the presentation of her ministry’s 2023 budget to the House finance committee. The goals concern justice, prevention ...

Students at a Nicosia technical school protested outside the gates on Friday morning, demanding the resignation of the headmaster, accusing him of handing out suspensions for no reason. Meanwhile, the ...

Seven people died from coronavirus in the last seven days while 3,736 new infections were recorded, the health ministry announced on Friday. Meanwhile the death of a 72-year-old woman, who passed ...

A passenger died onboard a plane travelling from Cyprus to London on Thursday afternoon, British media have reported. Concern spread among passengers of the EasyJet flight over the man’s ...

A 57-year-old man was arrested early on Friday morning on suspicion of setting three cars on fire in Limassol. Police said the man set fire to two cars half an ...

An inflatable boat worth €12,000 has been reported stolen from the Famagusta nautical club, police said on Friday. According to the complaint by the Cyprus sailing federation, the five-metre boat was ...

Operations rose threefold after the inclusion of private hospitals in the national health scheme (Gesy) which increased the number of beds available by almost 80 per cent, data showed on Wednesday. ...

A 34-year-old woman has reported she was gang raped at Pournara reception centre for asylum seekers, police told the Cyprus Mail on Wednesday. The alleged sexual assault took place a ...

A secondary education teacher who has been arrested this month on suspicion of sexually abusing over a dozen students continues to hold his position at a Limassol school, as competent ...

The new €23.7 million state scheme aiming to strengthen the social support network for children and people with long-term care needs was put to public consultation on Wednesday. Funded by the ...

Cyprus health services will get an €80 million revamp through the Cyprus Tomorrow plan which includes the completion of the first phase of the long-awaited new mental hospital. National health care ...

Two green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) injured by boat propellers over the summer have been released back to their natural habitat after they received necessary treatment, the department of fisheries ...

The health ministry on Wednesday announced it will further promote anti-covid vaccinations for the elderly amidst a rise in infections and hospitalisations. The decision was announced by Health Minister Michalis ...

A 36-year-old man has been arrested as the second suspect in connection with the attempted murder of a man in Larnaca last month. For the same case, police had arrested ...

Podiatrists across the island will offer free diabetic foot assessment for people with diabetes next week. In view of world diabetes day, 34 members of the Cyprus association of registered podiatrists ...

The division of the island makes it easier for human traffickers to trick their victims into coming to Cyprus and harder for the authorities to arrest them, a new report ...

A 49-year-old woman who fell from a height of six metres while cleaning the windows of a house in Tersefanou died from a head injury, the autopsy showed on Tuesday. ...

Former Kiti Bishop Chrysostomos said he is “praying every night” that God forgives the woman who, he said, falsely accused him of assaulting her back in 1981 when she was a ...

Information about the two species of mosquitoes “dangerous to humans” which have been recently detected in Limassol and Larnaca, will be sent out as part of measures to eliminate the ...

A 37-year-old man was been jailed for three and a half years on Tuesday for assisting the illegal entry of irregular migrants into the republic. He was arrested on July 30 ...

Hospitality businesses learned about EU food waste targets and how to reduce food waste at a workshop from a policy officer at the European Commission. The networking event was held ...

More effort is needed to ensure transparency in Cyprus and Greece, the European parliament’s committee of inquiry on Pegasus and other spyware (Pega) said on Friday after visiting the ...

Even though I don’t approve of cigarettes being representative of a badass attitude, Rita smoking inside the school toilets surrounded by graffitti on the walls, couldn’t paint a ...