Iole Damaskinos

The server used to direct recent cyberattacks against the land registry and the University of Cyprus (UCy) has been taken over, Director for the police Cybercrime Combat unit, Andreas Anastasiades ...

Preparations are underway for the eighth annual Fish Festival, Polis Chrysochous Mayor, Yiotis Papachristofis, reported to the Cyprus News Agency on Monday. Free fresh fish and drinks will be offered ...

Police on Monday are investigating two cases of arson in Nicosia schools. According to a police statement, the arsons happened around 5am on Sunday when police received a call about ...

So far there has been no information about Cypriots stranded in Sudan, according to foreign ministry spokesperson, Theodoros Gotsis. In a post on Twitter on Monday, Gotsis said the ministry’...

Police identified and seized approximately 415,000 pyrotechnic devices since the beginning of the year, of which 413,000 were firecrackers, police announced on Monday. This is the largest amount seized in the last ...

Akamas region’s bird and flora information centre has been completed, the Paphos municipality has announced. The aim of the centre is to showcase Akamas region wildlife as well as ...

The average density of litter on Cyprus beaches is 0.2 items per square metre, a bi-communal study showed. The data on beach litter, available from the European Marine Observation and Data ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that the blame for the server disruption belongs to his government, and that he would not blame others for the failure to move the ...

Doctors at a private medical centre in Limassol have asked to be given time to relocate, following a majority decision by its shareholders to be inducted into the national health ...

Interest in spending the Easter holidays in agro-tourism accommodations in the countryside, is high, data from the Deputy Ministry of Tourism revealed on Wednesday. Interest domestically is higher than previous ...

Measures to combat poaching and regulate hunting were discussed between the hunting federation and the ministry of justice, it was announced on Tuesday. According to the federation, the meeting between ...

Thirteen Laona and Akamas region community leaders have threatened to resign over the planned merger of their communities into a single municipal entity under Polis Chrysochous, it was announced on ...

Police on Tuesday are investigating the theft of €20,000 from the house of the priest of Ayia Anna village in Larnaca. Police spokesman, Haris Hatzigiasemi, said the 78-year-old priest had reported ...

The minister of energy, commerce and industry and the Cyprus chamber of commerce and industry (CCCI) agreed on Monday to intensify efforts to reduce the price of electricity. “We have ...

Police on Monday arrested eight people for illegal possession of explosives, weapons, and drugs, in checks carried out before the start of the Apoel-Apollon football match at GSP stadium in ...

Local authorities are doing their best to “get through” to minors and minimise the likely inevitable damages from the Easter bonfire tradition, Dali’s mayor said on Monday. Speaking on ...

Police in Paphos on Sunday confiscated another stash of illegal duty-free tobacco products after a residential search. According to the police, the search conducted at noon at the apartment and ...

Peo union on Monday voiced concern over price manipulation and profiteering at the expense of the public over the Easter holidays. Households experience intensified pressure during this period, Peo said, ...

Three hundred locations have been identified and are awaiting excavation, Greek Cypriot representative on the committee on missing persons (CMP) Leonidas Pantelides said on Wednesday. In all, 900 cases are still ...

The recently reviewed state welfare scheme for people living in certain villages in the north is off to a good start, parliamentary representative for the Maronite community Yiannakis Moussas said ...

Data from the ministry of health’s monitoring unit show that C-sections in Cyprus reached 58.9 per cent of all births in 2021, with the EU average not exceeding 30 per cent. The ...

Akamas landowners called on the ministers of agriculture, interior and finance on Tuesday to determine levels of compensation over the introduction of the Akamas local plan. The matter had been ...

The conclusive results of a scientific study lend credence to residents’ protests against the operation of an asphalt plant in their area, Dali mayor Leontios Kallenos said on Tuesday. The ...

Consolidation into larger municipalities will handicap village communities, ex-mayor of Kritou Terra, Dervis Charalambous said on Tuesday. The mayor and three of the four members of the village community council ...