Iole Damaskinos

A motorcyclist was hospitalised in serious condition on Friday after an accident involving a car in the Mouttallos area of Paphos. According to police, the accident happened shortly before 6pm ...

A fire which broke out early on Friday in a community council vehicle in Kissonerga has been classed as arson, police said. The fire had broken out in double cab ...

A 31-year-old man was in hospital in critical condition on Friday after crashing his quadbike in Akamas. The accident happened on Thursday at around 2.45pm when, while driving on a ...

Local authorities were up in arms on Wednesday about a group of unaccompanied minors in Larnaca who have been removed from a previous facility to a state nursing home in ...

A fire broke out at in the early morning on Wednesday in an apartment at the abandoned St Nicolas complex in Chlorakas. According to the police, two fire engines rushed ...

Police in Paphos on Wednesday morning were investigating a vehicle fire that broke out in the early hours mobilising the fire department. According to the assistant police chief, Michalis Nikolaou, ...

The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) is both technically and financially viable and must go ahead, former finance minister and Disy MP Harris Georgiades said on Monday. He was speaking as ...

A decision to allow girls into the national guard when they graduate secondary school on a voluntary basis is in its final stages, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Monday. “...

The island’s water security and the escalating water crisis in the southern Mediterranean have featured prominently of late with the specter of desertification looming large after a summer of ...

A European Union directive by which a set percentage of energy used by member state residents must be derived from an interconnected source, means Cyprus must press ahead with the ...

State services caution against panic following Paphos quakeBy Iole Damaskinos and Jonathan Shkurko An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale struck the Paphos sea area overnight, according to announcements on ...

The government on Tuesday was forced to deny media reports it has taken any final decisions hidden from the public eye regarding funding for the controversial electricity interconnector project. “No ...

The state will roll out digital IDs in the upcoming year, deputy minister for innovation Nikodemos Damianou said on Monday. Meanwhile, it also emerged that the deputy ministry is mulling ...

Monday marked a return to school for teachers, as Education Minister Athena Michaelidou expressed satisfaction over recent upgrades. The school year starts with the operation of many more all-day schools, ...

The Paphos District Court issued a three-day remand for an 18-year-old woman on Monday in a case of impersonation, forgery and circulation of a forged document. According to the police, ...

Paphos police arrested a 39-year-old man on Sunday for an ongoing case of illegal employment in a restaurant, while the owner of the restaurant was also accused. According to police, ...

Paphos police on Sunday confiscated ten computers used for illegal electronic gambling. According to Paphos assistant police chief Michalis Nikolaou, officers undertook a targeted raid on an electronic gambling venue ...

The highway between Limassol and Nicosia was reopened in full shortly after Midday on Monday, after being closed twice due to a serious accident which took place overnight. Both lanes ...

Police on Wednesday announced the arrest for sexual crimes of the 64-year-old man involved in the Limassol investigation, which had started off last week with the man reporting to authorities ...

Police in Paphos arrested of a 56-year-old woman residing in the district who was wanted by British authorities for fraud.  According to the police, the woman was arrested on Tuesday ...

Emergency ambulance transfer is a non-profit public service which is performing excellently, Okypy (state health services organisation) spokesperson Charalambos Charilaou said on Wednesday. Charilaou was weighing in on statements by ...

The municipality of Larnaca cleared away two illegal beach campsites, removing caravans, vans and other installations. The operation on Tuesday took on two informal sites that sprung up for the ...

Half of the island’s ambulances are sitting unused, it was reported on Tuesday, due to a failure to reach an agreement between private ambulance providers and the state. Eighty ...

The Green party on Tuesday initiated a move to assure protection of the Mathiatis pine forest after what is seen as a close call, with a proposed giant photovoltaic (PV) ...