Iole Damaskinos

Piles of office furniture and box files labelled “Audit Service” were reported as having been discovered discarded in a field in Geri on Friday. Speaking on CyBC’s morning radio, ...

Planned upgrades to the aged and leaking water supply network “can’t be done overnight” the agriculture ministry director said on Thursday. Meanwhile, district self-governance organisation (EOA) heads pointed out ...

A bus stop built sideways in an alleyway between two houses, on a short stretch of pavement ending in a field in Alaminos, became the butt of a parody on ...

Limassol taxi drivers have threatened further strikes, even closing the airports, after their four-hour work stoppage on Wednesday if their demands are not met over cracking down on moonlighting drivers. “...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved extraordinary state aid of eight million euros for a year to the local district organisations (EOA) for the management of water in the wake of ...

A new postponement was granted by the Nicosia Criminal Court on Wednesday in the case against Israeli land developer Simon Aykout for the usurpation of Greek Cypriot owned properties in ...

Police on Wednesday are searching for two unknown individuals who stole €1,600 in cash from a kiosk in Larnaca overnight. According to the police spokesperson Spyros Chrysostomou, the robbery was committed ...

Former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki was released on Wednesday morning after being taken into custody for failing to appear at the Nicosia District Court during his scheduled hearing. Yiannaki had ...

Cyprus remains steadfast in its pursuit of freedom and reunification through assertive realism and clear political will, President Nikos Christodoulides said at a commemorative event on Tuesday evening. Recent developments ...

For the first time a Cypriot has been elected to the position of Vice Chair of the International Maritime Organisation, the deputy ministry of shipping announced on Wednesday. In a ...

This year’s tourist bookings are expected to remain at approximately the same levels as in 2024, the head of the Paphos Hoteliers Association, Evripides Loizides, said on Wednesday. He added ...

Water from privately owned boreholes is being gradually inducted into the municipal water supply, Akamas mayor Marinos Lambrou said on Wednesday, adding that urgent solutions needed to be found to ...

Dozens of patients suffering from diabetes found themselves unable to access their medications due to a double failure of the health services’ online system which continues to be unreliable for ...

Larnaca hospital emergency department staff went on a spontaneous one-hour work stoppage on Monday at 9am to protest another incident of verbal abuse of a nurse. Nurses’ union Pasyno threatened ...

Efforts to mitigate the country’s water shortage are intensely focussed on the rapid acquisition of desalination plants, viewed as the most effective way to secure long term adequacy. However, ...

British Airways has cancelled all its scheduled flights between Larnaca and London Heathrow for Friday and early Saturday, as the British airport remains closed following a major fire that caused ...

A bill to exempt casinos from the restriction limiting cash transactions to €10,000 has been the subject of heated debate while opponents on Thursday lambasted the proposal as a last ditch “...

Authorities in Paphos assisted an elderly woman who had been living in deplorable conditions, while a cleaning crew found stashes of old bank notes and other valuables at her home, ...

Deputy mayors of the newly amalgamated Polis Chrysochous municipality have raised the alarm over what they describe as ‘dysfunctional governance’, blaming the issues on an ill-planned local government reform. The ...

Thirteen million passengers are expected to pass through Larnaca and Paphos airports this year, Maria Kouroupi, Hermes Airports Director of Aviation Development, Marketing and Communications said on Wednesday, with an ...

The goal is for the informal enlarged meeting in Geneva to be “a step towards restarting negotiations from where they had been interrupted in the summer of 2017,” government spokesman Konstantinos ...

Paphos and Limassol are the districts most under threat of summer water supply interruptions, acting Water Development Department (WDD) director, George Kazantzis said on Monday. Elsewhere Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou ...

Reports by environmentalists of illegal refreshment stands springing up in Akamas need to be verified, the interior ministry said on Monday. “The Paphos district administration will visit the spots where ...

A 35-year-old man was rescued after the car carrying truck he was driving fell into a ravine, the fire service reported on Monday. According to service spokesman Andreas Kettis, the ...