Iole Damaskinos

Kato Pyrgos mayor Nikos Kleanthous on Monday called for the immediate improvement of the community’s fishing shelter as part of the improved efficiency touted by the local government reform. ...

A body was found in the Strovolos linear park in an advanced state of decomposition, with authorities on Monday working to identity the deceased. The body was found on Sunday ...

Police arrested an illegal immigrant in Limassol who had been deported eight years ago following his involvement in serious crimes, it emerged on Monday. According to Limassol CID, the 45-year-old, ...

As long as the Turkish Cypriots are not considered equal and a solution based on equality is not accepted, there will be no common ground for negotiations in Cyprus, Turkish ...

Authorities on Monday were investigating the causes of a fire that broke out in Klirou in Nicosia. The fire was brought under complete control on Sunday afternoon shortly after it ...

A group of 65 students and six teachers from the English School who became stranded in Switzerland are safe at their hotel, and arrangements are being made for their return, foreign ...

An important artefact of the island’s maritime history, the long-serving fishing trawler Lambousa, was transferred to the old port of Limassol and relaunched on Friday. The boat, the only ...

The National Council will convene next Friday following President Nikos Christodoulides’ meeting with the UN Secretary General’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin in Brussels, it emerged on Friday. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will meet Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić on Monday. Burić, who will be on an official visit to the island from ...

A Larnaca man remained in hospital on Friday following a 12 metre fall from a roof. According to preliminary information from the fire service, the accident happened on Thursday around 12.30pm ...

The plenary of the parliamentary assembly of the council of Europe (PACE) approved the resolution of its Rapporteur Piero Fassino for the people of Varosha to return to their legal ...

Mayor of Polis Chrysochous Yiotis Papachristofi met Paphos District Governor Charalambos Pittokopitis and other officials, it was announced on Friday, to coordinate the handover of services to the self-governing body ...

Police in Paphos on Wednesday seized eleven computers suspected to have been illegally converted into gaming machines. Officers from the Paphos CID, as well as members of the intellectual property ...

The council of ministers decided on the retraction of two more “golden passports” issued to Russian oligarchs, it emerged on Thursday. The two Russians had acquired Cypriot citizenship during the 2008...

A 61-year-old man was remanded for eight days by the Nicosia District Court following an arson attack on two cars and a motorcycle in Nicosia early Thursday morning. According to ...

Staff and trainees of the Christos Stelios Ioannou Foundation for people with special needs, on Thursday are set to protest the construction of asylum service headquarters next to their premises. ...

The lone remaining pupil in the village of Kambos and her teacher have earned the distinction of the “smallest school in Cyprus” it was reported on Tuesday. Nine-year-old Demetra Panayiotou, ...

A 32-year-old illegal resident was remanded for six days on Tuesday in connection with the fire that broke out on Monday in Anogyra, as authorities said children setting off fireworks ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday that claims about Cyprus being implicated in operations which support Israel in its Gaza hostilities are “utterly baseless”. Later Athens also added its ...

Environmentalists this week breathed a sigh of relief at the decision that the building of a long line of breakwaters along the north Paphos coastline has been decisively deemed a ...

Cyprus is now viewed by the United States as a trustworthy and reliable state worthy of strategic partnership, something which took years of intensive efforts, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said ...

Paphos police arrested a second person aged 38, for an investigated case of theft of two collector’s bottles of whiskey. A 33-year-old man has also been arrested for the same ...

House Speaker, Annita Demetriou and President of the Austrian National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka, reaffirmed the strong ties between Cyprus and Austria and expressed mutual desire to deepen collaboration between the ...

Eight German energy companies are due to visit the island for a conference in July by initiative of the German ministry for economy and climate action (BMWK), it was announced ...