James Morphakis

A group of poachers in Androlykou illegally hunts hares on an almost nightly basis despite repeatedly being reported, the head of the Game and Fauna Service, Pantelis Hadjiyerou, told the ...

A committee representing shopkeepers and residents in old Nicosia demanded on Wednesday that Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos resign, hours after he told a Disy delegation that the municipality has drawn ...

Complaints regarding the hiring of workers through temporary employment agencies “are linked to slave trade and human trafficking”, the House labour committee chairman and Disy MP Giorgos Koukoumas, said on ...

Maccabi Tel Aviv formally asked Cyprus on Tuesday to host its Euro League home games. The Israeli basketball club sent a letter to President Nikos Christodoulides expressing its intention to ...

A doctor working in Germany allegedly holds large swathes of Turkish Cypriot property, farms the land and receives agricultural subsidies, House refugee committee chair and Akel MP Nikos Kettiros revealed ...

Letters sent to former president Nicos Anastasiades in April and May 2022 show that he was informed on allegations concerning deputy police chief Michalis Katsounotos before the case was formally reported, ...

The Ecologists has raised concerns over plans to relocate the central prisons to Ayios Sozomenos, warning that the proposed site could affect protected land within the Natura 2000 network. In a ...

Disy has backed Diko’s criticism of Finance Minister Makis Keravnos over his handling of the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), saying the government must give “specific and convincing answers” over ...

A rare Egyptian vulture was filmed at a forestry department feeding unit in Ayios Ioannis, Paphos, on Tuesday. The bird, Europe’s smallest and most endangered vulture species, was recorded ...

Applications for key social insurance benefits are being processed up to 70 per cent faster following the rollout of new digital services, Deputy Research Minister Nicodimos Damianou said on Tuesday. The ...

Cyprus requires a single, independent authority to manage the country’s water resources, Nicosia district local government organisation (EOA) chief Constantinos Yiorkadjis told the House agriculture committee on Tuesday, describing ...

Police removed four British passengers from a flight from Larnaca to Birmingham on Monday after they repeatedly refused to stop using electronic cigarettes during the five-hour journey, according to a ...

Five former politicians and officials will have their police guards withdrawn from October 5, the justice ministry announced on Tuesday. The decision affects three former House presidents, Yiannakis Omirou, Demetris Syllouris ...

Reform of the pension system will cost the state more than €800 million overall over a six-year period, the labour minister said on Monday as the government continued talks with employers ...

More than 1,000 hate speech comments are posted in Greek on Cypriot online sites every 24 hours, House human rights committee chair Christos Christofides said on Monday. He told the committee that 48 ...

A total of 5,176 Turkish Cypriots have been granted Cypriot citizenship since 2004, figures released by the interior ministry showed on Monday. A total of 2,972 citizenships, the largest share of the total, ...

Lawyers representing a former Greek soldier serving in Cyprus (Eldyk) seriously injured by a grenade said two of the 73 grenades supplied to the unit had been withdrawn after cracks were ...

Cyprus, Greece and Israel share a common trait beyond their defence cooperation, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Friday, that being “they do not have good relations with Turkey.” Speaking ...

Police are investigating a bomb threat email sent to the English School in Nicosia on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, police said the email warned of an “explosive device” ...

The pension reform bill is to be submitted to the House by the end of month, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas assured on Monday. Addressing the labour advisory board, Mousiouttas affirmed “...

Limassol recorded its highest participation yet in the 10km cycling tour, held on Sunday as part of the 27th Lemesia sports festival. Mayor Yiannis Armeftis said the event, which had ...

The state cannot determine how much groundwater is actually pumped, according to research published on Friday by the investigative reporting network (Ciren). The research, drawing on data from the water ...

Former presidential candidate Andreas Mavroyiannis said on Friday that polls reaching him put him in first place for the 2028 presidential election, though he intends to wait until the end of ...

Cyprus’s Israeli made Barak MX air defence system will be presented publicly for the first time during the military parade marking Independence Day on October 1, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas ...