Iole Damaskinos

Lycavitos police station in Nicosia appears to have been among the targets of a criminal organisation based in Greece, it emerged on Tuesday. According to daily Philenews, a photo of ...

Larnaca Airport customs officers recently ramped up checks on passengers departing to UK airports, they announced on Tuesday. Last Wednesday, the customs department seized seventy 50g tobacco packages, and 24 cartons ...

The strike announced by quarry workers on Monday was called off following the intervention of agriculture minister Kostas Kadis. According to the Paphos Concrete Production and Quarry Companies spokesperson, Olga ...

Minister of Transport Yiannis Karousos on Moday will inspect the completion of the repair works on a segment the old Paphos-Limassol road, near popular tourist destination Aphrodite’s Rock (Petra ...

Police on Monday night made yet another arrest for the violent incidents which erupted over the weekend in Limassol, bringing the total number of arrests up to seven. Two members ...

A green comet which approaches Earth once in 50,000 years may be visible to the naked eye for those intrepid enough to travel to areas of the island unaffected by light ...

Police on Monday rejected claims of “amateur handling” of anti-riot operations during violent incidents on Sunday during the memorial for Eoka leader Grivas Digenis in Limassol. Five people were remanded ...

Policies adopted by his government have strengthened economic, social, rural, cultural and tourist development throughout the Paphos district, and he is satisfied with the results, President Anastasiades said during his ...

Presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis said at a press conference on Friday, that for Akamas, but also the ecosystems of Cyprus in general, he and his staff are “willing to do ...

Cyprus and Austria will submit proposals next week on their cooperation on illegal migration and relocation matters, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris stated on Friday after meeting his counterpart Gerhard Karner ...

Renewable energy consumption in Cyprus has been steadily increasing since the country’s 2004 accession to the EU, and in 2021 stood at 18.4 per cent, up from 16.9 per cent in 2020, and 13.8 per ...

Past planning in areas affected by flooding over the weekend had not taken into account city sprawl, Green Party MP Charalambos Theopemptou said on Tuesday. However, proven sustainable drainage systems ...

Nicolas Skourides, the first Greek Cypriot to settle in the north after 1974, passed away according to an announcement on Tuesday, in Turkish-Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen. In 2018, the then 78-year-old Skourides, ...

Limassol police on Tuesday arrested a 47-year-old suspect in an investigated case of burglary and theft at a meat warehouse. The meat trader had filed a complaint with police, stating ...

Minister of Labour, Kyriacos Koushos, will hold a new meeting withtrade unions and employers’ organisations over CoLA on Tuesday. The meeting is being held in an ongoing an attempt to ...

One hundred and twenty potholes in Paphos are to be closed, mayor Phedonas Phedonos announced on Monday. Moreover, the mayor stated work crews are continuing to coat newly constructed roads ...

Limassol police on Sunday night arrested two suspects for possession of illegal cannabis weighing over six kilos. They were remanded for eight days on Monday. According to a police statement, ...

Police on Sunday arrested a Larnaca resident in connection with a case of illegal drugs possession with intent to supply. According to an official statement, at around 4pm a police ...

Police are conducting intensive investigations into a fire that broke out in the early hours of Saturday morning in six vehicles at a car repair shop in Paphos. According to ...

The Green Party expressed strong concern on Friday about construction projects currently underway in Akamas. The works being carried out under the pretext of improving the road network involve deep ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides on Friday said it was unacceptable that “subjective views” had been included in two UN reports by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that went “beyond objective facts”. “We ...

Hospital staff operate in a purely therapeutic capacity, state health services (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Tuesday, adding that nurses and doctors cannot be expected to stand in the ...

Patient organisations expressed outrage on Tuesday over allegations that an elderly person was found tied to their hospital bed using bedsheets. Demanding the state health services (Okypy) investigate the matter, ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela and members of the scientific committee on Tuesday will review the pandemic situation in Cyprus following the new outbreak in China, and will decide if any ...