Iole Damaskinos

Relations between Cyprus and the USA are at the highest level ever, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday evening. AHEPA has worked to strengthen the relations of Cyprus with the ...

The sports’ ethics committee announced on Friday it will investigate allegations made against the Cyprus Olympic committee (Koe) and some its members during a House committee meeting earlier this week. ...

Two young Nigerian men deported from Cyprus on Monday have caused a social media storm because of a number of unusual plot twists. The two men were reportedly deported from ...

Police in Paphos on Thursday arrested a 39-year-old man after the theft of electrical construction machinery. According to the police, the theft was reported on October 23 by the 55-year-old owner ...

The Cyprus hunting association (Kok) on Friday called for respect of the rules as the hunting season for endemic game is set to begin on Sunday. In an announcement, the ...

Chevron’s director of exploration and production for the Middle East, Africa and South America, Clay Neff, will be in Cyprus on Friday for a slew of meetings with the ...

Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, responsible for peace operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, will visit the green line in Pyla and also occupied Famagusta on Thursday. On Wednesday Lacroix met ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas Police are certain that the image released of two men shows the murderers of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos, who was gunned down in Limassol earlier in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke at length with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and details are being hammered out so that Cyprus can be ready “when the time comes” to ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Nikolaos Prakas Further measures will be taken by police, following two high-profile Cyprus gangland murders almost 36 hours apart, police said after a meeting on Wednesday. The ...

All traffic cameras currently installed have passed the piloting phase and are in full operation, while a second phase is underway that will see the installation of 66 additional cameras, head ...

By Iole Damaskinos, Nick Theodoulou, Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver Cyprus’ proposal for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to the Gaza strip is being received positively, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

New zero VAT relief measures go into action from Wednesday, the tax department reminded the public on Tuesday. The announced measure covers a list of items already previously assigned at ...

An external evaluator will be assigned to help calculate the cost of milk production, following disagreement among milk producers, the ministry announced. Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos, meanwhile, said on Tuesday ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) has placed surgical procedures under a close watch, as reports emerged on Monday of over 90,000 operations carried out in the space of one year within ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos met his Palestinian counterpart Riyad Al-Maliki and other Palestinian officials in Ramallah on Monday. The meeting took place “in the light of concerning developments in the ...

Trade union Isotita on Monday added its voice to the call for strike action to support the demands of low-salary civil servants. The strike action, planned for November 1, had been ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari is making efforts on Monday to resolve the stalemate over pay structure between public hospital workers and state health services organisation Okypy. The health minister stepped ...

A man who went out to pick mushrooms over the weekend was surprised by the discovery of a hand grenade. According to reports, he man went mushroom picking at around 11...

A diver missing at the Zenobia shipwreck was found dead by authorities within the ship on Friday. A search party found him at around 11am, in a compartment of the ...

The price reduction for petrol and other fuel planned for November 1 is likely to be pushed back to November 3 as the bill has not yet been passed, it emerged on ...

Public hospitals are the “backbone” of the national health care system (Gesy) but they must become competitive, the health minister said on Friday. Speaking on CyBC radio, Health Minister Popi ...

Justice Minister Anna Procopiou said the state is promoting measures towards gender equality and empowerment of women in all areas of life. Speaking at an event on Wednesday, in support ...

The federation of leisure centre owners (Osika) has reached out to colleges, universities, and relevant state agencies to resolve problems faced by its members, including lack of staffing. “For decades ...