Gina Agapiou

Seven businesses and 16 individuals were booked for violating coronavirus protocols after 1,711 checks in the government-controlled areas, police said on Friday. Five businesses and four people were fined in Nicosia after 468 ...

Environmental NGO, Terra Cypria, has repeated its calls for the passage of a bill that will allow those who own land in Akamas to build elsewhere, saying this will protect ...

The trial of a 74-year-old British man who in December confessed to killing his wife to spare her suffering from leukaemia will start in April. The defendant appeared on Thursday ...

Students arrive late at the set locations providing free coronavirus tests as part of the ‘test to stay’ policy, resulting in a commotion and loss of “valuable teaching time”, the ...

Cyprus, as a global maritime power, will present government’s initiative on how to tackle climate change with a focus on green shipping during the One Ocean summit in France, ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued decrees prohibiting the operation of the two asphalt factories in the areas of Geri and Tseri, pending their relocation following nearby residents’ complaints. The ...

A total of 24 computers were confiscated from premises in Paphos, on suspicion they were being used for illegal betting. The computers were confiscated after the district’s cybercrime unit raided ...

Police on Thursday said they issued 21 fines related to violations in coronavirus measures, after 1,804 checks in the government-controlled areas. The checks were carried out between 6am on Wednesday and 6am ...

Police on Thursday said they were investigating a murder attempt after a 15-year-old boy allegedly assaulted another teenager with a knife at the Pournara migrant reception centre. Both minors involved “...

Dozens of people were injured during a mass fight at the Pournara migrant reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia early on Wednesday, requiring riot police to intervene. An earlier fight broke out ...

Steni community council has placed five nesting boxes on trees to attract barn owls as part of the biological control of rodents. The artificial nests in the Paphos village were ...

Police on Wednesday said they had arrested a wanted 44-year-old man after an air rifle and property reported stolen two years ago was found in his apartment. Officers had raided ...

The health ministry’s epidemiological team is open to criticism about the handling of the pandemic, one of its members said on Tuesday, after a group of professionals questioned the ...

A Limassol resident reportedly located and played a key part in the arrest of the thief he had reported to the police. The 37-year-old suspect was remanded for eight days ...

A bill to protect victims of crime is set to be voted on in March, following the completion of discussions on the matter at the House human rights committee. The ...

A 21-year-old man was on Tuesday remanded as the fifth suspect involved in the theft of ammunition from a secured container in Limassol last year. The theft was reported by ...

Parents of nursery school children on Tuesday called for frequent self-tests as a more efficient way of monitoring the coronavirus situation than a proposal for a weekly rapid test. Self-tests, ...

Two sisters reported their older brother was sexually abusing them for four consecutive years, when they were both under the age of 13, it emerged on Tuesday. The abuse started 12 years ...

Thousands of children had the opportunity to attend lessons in person thanks to the Test to Stay policy, the health ministry said on Tuesday in response to secondary teachers’ criticism ...

Paphos police on Monday said they have arrested another twelve people who were found violating the interior ministry decree which prohibits the settlement of additional migrants in Chlorakas. The arrests ...

A group of doctors, lawyers, educators and scientists gathered outside the attorney-general’s office on Monday to demand explanations regarding what they described as “scandalous” management of Covid-19. Professionals from ...

The health ministry on Monday announced four more coronavirus deaths, including two people in their 40s, as 3,374 new infections were recorded. The deaths concerned a man, aged 40 and a woman ...

The new Limassol football stadium is being completed as planned, government said on Monday, adding the three Limassol teams are willing to follow new Uefa specifications for wider spacing between ...

More coronavirus cases are being detected among students after the implementation of the test to stay policy, risking school closure, secondary state teachers’ union Oelmek said on Monday. On the ...