Iole Damaskinos

Friends of the Earth Cyprus (FoECY) is taking part in an international effort to stop 30 EU-backed gas projects from moving forward. Protestors claim the EU Commission has given these climate-destructive ...

Our region will experience climate change more intensely and sooner than other regions, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis reiterated on Tuesday as the island played host to a high-level international conference ...

Low pressure and unstable weather conditions are currently affecting the island and although Tuesday will be mainly fine, clouds that develop later in the day are expected to lead to ...

Italian MP and rapporteur of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy, Piero Fassino, was informed about the illegal actions of the Turkish Cypriot ‘regime’ in Famagusta Monday afternoon, in ...

A robbery under threat of a knife was committed Monday night at a kiosk in Nicosia. According to the police statement at around 11pm an unknown person entered a kiosk ...

The first students from the Kingdom of Bahrain are expected to arrive in September to the postgraduate school of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING). According to a ...

A British Cypriot owned Somerset hotel featured on BBC Breakfast has become a safe haven for Ukrainians fleeing Russian invasion. Its owner, Cypriot-born Nitsa Michael, who arrived in the UK ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela condemned the loss of human lives during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and underlined his support for the Ukrainian people, in his speech at the 75th ...

Police have arrested a 22-year-old man who has reportedly admitted to raping three women in Ayia Napa between April 18 and mid-May, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. It said ...

The medieval castle of Paphos is threatened by damage from humidity and will be closed on May 26 and 27 for maintenance works by the department of antiquities. Stella Pissaridou, head of ...

A meeting took place yesterday between a delegation of the Ecologists’ Movement – Citizens’ Cooperation and representatives of bank workers’ union Etyk, within the framework of a circle of contacts started ...

The vision of green transition and the course Cyprus is called to follow towards it, were the topics of an address by the president of Disy, Averof Neophytou, in the ...

An armed robbery was committed in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Paphos. According to police statement the 44-year-old victim reported the incident which happened around 2 am. The victim ...

There are no problems in the supply chain and no shortage in supermarket stocks are expected as a result of the war in Ukraine, executive secretary of the Pancyprian Supermarkets ...

In the framework of the European Artion Programme, members of Paphos Civil Defence on Sunday successfully carried out a search-and-rescue exercise for missing persons in the Mandria community of Paphos. ...

According to head of Paphos CID Michalis Nikolaou, on Saturday night members of the Game and Fauna service heard a shot in the Argaka area and noticed the presence of ...

A 32-year-old man committed indecent acts in Limassol in the early hours of Monday, as a result of which the police were forced to handcuff him. According to lemesosblog, shortly ...

Deadly ground nets should be removed immediately and a zero-tolerance approach taken towards their use in Cyprus, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) said on Monday. Farmers and landowners use ...

More and more days in the year have dangerous levels of dust, but it is not fair to blame the Sahara alone Government-issued dust warnings seem to have become par ...

Decisions on 44 cases related to violations of regulatory legislation governing content and processes of radio and television organisations, stations and the CyBC were released on Tuesday by the Cyprus Radio ...

Cyprus marked International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia on Tuesday with a clear message that there will be no tolerance of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or ...

Saying the detention of Australian activist Julian Assange was illegal and anti-democratic, the Assange Initiative and the Cyprus Union of Journalists held an event in Nicosia on Monday calling for ...

An innovative tour for the visually impaired has taken place in Larnaca to develop city tours for visually disabled tourists and making the city more accessible. The tour took place ...

The ministry of interior on Monday announced the launch of an information campaign against human trafficking aimed at discouraging demand for sexual services from victims. The main objective of the ...