Iole Damaskinos

Two men, aged 19 and 21, were arrested and taken into custody to facilitate inquiries into an attack on a 23-year-old pedestrian in Nicosia on Sunday night. The 23-year-old reported to the ...

Cyprus is taking part in a project aimed at mitigating soil erosion through sustainable land and water management. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers and other professionals ...

The Cyprus Federation of Environmental Organisations (Opok) has released a statement, outlining its position regarding the Department of Environment’s new assessment of the revised regional plan for Akamas, which ...

The health minister said on Tuesday he will seek legal opinion from the Attorney-general on the legality of the appointment of Dr Petros Agathangelou to the board of the Health ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Tuesday that full agreement on the controversial topic of PDO-certified halloumi has been reached, following a meeting at the presidential palace a day earlier. ...

In a meeting with relatives of Greek missing persons on Monday, Presidential Commissioner, Fotis Fotiou, acknowledged their “agony of anguish and uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones” and ...

The Nicosia chamber of commerce and industry (Ebel) on Monday expressed “great disappointment” at the decision to integrate the Higher Hotel Institute of Cyprus (HHIC) into the Cyprus University of ...

Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiou on Monday said the government would continue to support Greek Cypriots living in certain areas in the north by facilitating their employment and providing incentives for ...

Some members of the Paphos Bar Association went on indefinite strike on Monday, protesting new security measures at Paphos District Court. In a letter sent to Justice Minister Stefi Drakou, ...

The social welfare services on Tuesday came in for renewed and harsh criticism over their handling of the Lakatamia office which deals with foreign nationals, as the municipality announced it ...

The Piale Pasha facelift, scheduled to begin in autumn, will make the area “a jewel for Larnaca” the city’s municipality has stated. In a meeting on Monday, Larnaca Mayor ...

The first images from NASA’s new state-of-the-art James Webb Space Telescope will be revealed today in simultaneous broadcasts around the world in collaboration with various organisations, including the Cyprus ...

Police confiscated ten large capacity motorcycles in Limassol on Monday in an ongoing stepped-up operation aimed at reducing fatal and serious road collisions, as well as noise nuisance. As part ...

All public hospitals’ working hours will be extended to cover afternoons from September 1st, the state health services organisation (Okypy) announced on Monday. The public will be accommodated 7:30 am – 3:00 pm ...

One in three people killed in a traffic accident is a driver or passenger of a motorbike, the latest government data showed on Monday. For the 2017-2021 period 30 per cent ...

Health Minister Michalis Hatjipantela has given his go-ahead for the promotion of natural childbirth in Cyprus through joint actions that will be developed with the midwives committee, it was announced ...

Years of unplanned building without the necessary infrastructure has led to wastewater runoff polluting underground reservoirs and the sea in Trikomo, Turkish Cypriot newspaper Yeniduzen reported on Sunday. President of ...

No one has forgotten the heroism of the 13 people who died in the Mari explosion eleven years ago, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday at a service at the site ...

Members of the Larnaca police found a large number of firecrackers in the possession of a 15-year-old minor, after a check on Sunday night. The minor was spotted moving on ...

Newly discovered Neolithic artifacts in the Akamas peninsula suggest the area may have played a more important role in prehistoric Cyprus than had been previously thought. In April 2022, lead by ...

A fire that broke out near the industrial area in Ypsonas early on Tuesday was brought under control two hours later, destroying about 20,000 square metres of dry grass and wild ...

Larnaca police were investigating a case of attempted murder on Tuesday after an explosion occurred in a vehicle being driven in Oroklini. According to a police statement to the Cyprus ...

Paphos police are continuing intensive investigations into a case of threats and illegal possession of a firearm that occurred outside a nightclub in the early hours of Sunday. Following the ...

Presidential elections will be held Sunday, February 5 and the runoff will be on Sunday, February 12, the ministry of interior has announced. On Friday, December 23, the decree of the minister of ...