Iole Damaskinos

An Akaki property owner has built a house on land slated for expropriation by the state for a new road, it was reported on Friday. Head of the public works ...

Foreigners snapping up properties on the island at a rapid pace will be discussed by the House interior committee, MPs said on Friday after concerns have been lodged that the ...

Paphos has signed a contract for the installation and management of additional mobile rubbish compactors to boost sustainable waste management, the municipality announced. The contract was signed on Thursday by ...

Opposition party Akel on Wednesday demanded answers from the government regarding the extent and nature of Israeli security involvement in the island’s airports. “Why were flights diverted [from Paphos] ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is set to meet Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar again ahead of the arrival of United Nations under-secretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo. Tatar’s special representative Gunes ...

Israeli secret services have ordered all flights by Israeli carriers not to land in Paphos due to unspecified security concerns. According to the Jerusalem Post on Sunday, El Al, Arkia ...

A man in Kolossi who attacked two third country nationals in Limassol overnight, one of them a delivery driver, is being sought, according to police spokeswoman Kyriaki Lambrianidou on Monday. ...

The state needs to beef up staffing and maintenance expertise in the Water Development Department (WDD) as other dams built in the same era as Mavrokolymbos, could suffer the same ...

Police in Paphos arrested two individuals, aged 34 and 37, for an investigated case of burglary and theft after officers caught the the suspects in possession of stolen goods. According the police, ...

Cyprus has no means whatsoever of handling its waste stream, even if its collection was to be financed, experts and municipal officers admitted this week. Their statements come in the ...

A new hotel is to open on Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue, according to reports. Newspaper Phileleftheros wrote that the new hotel will be built in the former Laiki Bank building, ...

The government’s instructions about the repayment of debts owed by football clubs are simply for the law to be upheld, deputy spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on Thursday. Antoniou denied ...

Technocrats from the United States visiting the Andreas Papandreou airbase in Paphos on Thursday morning are to inspect the facility and prepare a study for its upgrade, deputy government spokesman ...

A roadmap for the future of the “pay as you throw” scheme, wherein people are forced to pay for special issue rubbish bags to have their rubbish collected, was agreed ...

The Mavrokolymbos reservoir was to be completely drained by Thursday or Friday, according to the agriculture ministry while the Paphos district authority is calling for the construction of two new ...

Police on Thursday have identified and located the Limassol man who abused a bicycle delivery driver and stole his mobile device after a TikTok video of the incident shared with ...

Launching the ‘pay as you throw’ scheme at present is unrealistic and the project must be postponed until all necessary research has been carried out – including how the collected waste ...

Police released a statement on Wednesday afternoon after shocking footage of a man in Limassol verbally and physically abusing a delivery driver sparked public outrage on social media. In their ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved amendments to bills governing the electoral process, including expanding the vote to seventeen-year-olds. In his opening address the president said it was “a historic day” for ...

Police on Wednesday are investigating a member of the force for a case of fraud, involving unlawful acquisition of property, bribery of a public official, and other offenses related to ...

A tender for a mobile water desalination unit in Paphos is expected to be announced soon, agriculture ministry director Andreas Gregoriou said on Monday. The announcement follows a catastrophic leak ...

Fixing the fault at Mavrokolympos dam is “extremely difficult”, the Water Development Department said on Monday evening, explaining that the problem was at a point inaccessible while the reservoir was ...

A 61-year-old man was arrested on Monday in connection with the ongoing investigation into an animal cruelty case in Peyia, Paphos. According to assistant police director of operations in Paphos, ...

The Animal Party on Monday raised concerns over the widespread presence of guns in the wrong hands on the island, describing the issue as a serious threat to public safety. “...