James Morphakis

MPs pressed the government on Wednesday over some 21 appointments to semi-state organisation boards made outside the recommendations of an advisory council set up to vet such candidates. Committee chairman and ...

The trial over alleged fraud at the Avakoum monastery continued on Wednesday, as defence lawyers challenged a former monk’s claims that he was mistreated. The witness has testified that ...

The Cyprus medical association (CyMA) said on Wednesday it is ready to audit doctors working in unlicensed centres, as police in Larnaca pressed ahead with an investigation into two medical ...

Microplastics have been detected for the first time in the urine of primary school children in Cyprus, according to a study published on Wednesday. In a jointly released statement, researchers ...

A criminal organisation case involving four defendants was adjourned to November 23 by the Larnaca permanent criminal court on Wednesday, after prosecutors made a substantial change to the indictment. Three of ...

A 30-year-old man facing a single charge of car theft in connection with the murder of businessman Stavros Demosthenous had his sentencing reserved for September 23, the Limassol criminal court heard ...

Defence lawyers in the central prisons’ documents trial accused a prosecution lawyer of a conflict of interest on Wednesday, as the Nicosia permanent criminal court heard clarifications over classified material ...

MPs clashed on Wednesday over the conduct of anti-poaching activists, with accusations that the House environment committee was being used to persecute such groups while refusing them the chance to ...

Microchipping hunting dogs and the capture of strays were the focus of talks between Environment Commissioner Elias Myrianthos and the game and fauna service on Wednesday. The meeting was attended ...

A 24-hour strike by more than 11,000 hourly paid government workers, due to begin on Thursday morning, was called off on Wednesday after union leaders met President Nikos Christodoulides. The meeting, ...

The number of unaccompanied children evacuated to Greece between 1974 and 1979 may have exceeded 5,000, more than double the 2,000 officially recorded, the House refugee committee heard on Tuesday. Head of the Children ...

A special education teacher told Nicosia district court on Tuesday that Stylianos Constantinou, who died by suicide in September 2019 at the age of 14, had told her as a young child ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Tuesday called for dialogue before a planned classroom walkout on Wednesday called for by the national students’ coordinating committee (Psem). The Psem protest is timed ...

The 390 kilograms of ketamine seized in Limassol amounts to approximately 790,000 doses, drugs squad (Ykan) chief Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. Andreou said the operation began after information was evaluated and ...

Police confirmed on Tuesday the formation of an investigative team to work alongside independent criminal investigators, with seven officers assigned to the Mafia State case. The team will support the ...

Attorney-General George Savvides issued a direct rebuttal on Tuesday to the anti-corruption authority’s claim that his deputy, Savvas Angelides, had always fallen within the scope of the spy van ...

The German tourist who drowned in a swimming pool in Paralimni last month has been identified through tributes posted online as Riccardo Staudt, a 22-year-old adult content creator known to ...

The government has abandoned plans to build the new central prison in Mathiatis, opting instead for a state-owned plot in the abandoned village of Ayios Sozomenos, the justice ministry announced ...

Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides called on men to seek medical advice on prostate cancer screening. Speaking at the Europa Uomo event marking European prostate cancer awareness day on Tuesday, Charalambides ...

A motorcycle suffered extensive damage on Monday after catching fire in a garage in Kiti, with the fire brigade confirming the blaze was started deliberately. A call was received at 4.20...

Three separate complaints against deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides were rejected by the anti-corruption authority without any public announcement. According to news outlet INK, the complaints, forwarded to the authority by ...

The anti-corruption authority said on Tuesday that deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides had always been within the scope of its expanded investigation into the “black van” surveillance case, disputing an account ...

Limassol municipality returned to residents with new proposals for the redevelopment of public squares across the city. At a meeting on Monday planners presented revised designs for the proposed redesign ...

Turkish Cypriot academic and former Akel MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek paid an unusually candid tribute on Monday to the late publisher and restaurateur Vasos Ftochopoulos who died last week at the ...