James Morphakis

The foreign ministry welcomed on Sunday a US decision to renew the lifting of defence restrictions on Cyprus for the next fiscal year. The move allows the export, re-export and ...

Police issued a 36-year-old man with an extrajudicial notice of €13,500 on Sunday, after officers from the anti-poaching squad found 17 wild birds trapped in nets in a fenced field in Larnaca. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides announced two new housing schemes on Sunday, approved by the cabinet to address housing needs among young people and families. The first offers 570 state owned plots of ...

Police arrested four people in Limassol after seizing more than 126 kilograms of ketamine, along with cocaine, methedrone and MDMA, in an operation Justice Minister Costas Fitiris, praised on Sunday. A ...

Police arrested the parents of a four-year-old boy on Sunday after the child died from a fall at a block of flats in Engomi. The boy fell around 20 metres from ...

Temperatures will climb on Sunday, with the Met Office forecasting highs of 37 degrees in Nicosia. Nicosia will bear the brunt of the heat, while Paphos stays cooler at 31 degrees and ...

Residents of a house in Engomi escaped without injury on Saturday after a fire broke out and extensively damaged the roof of the building. The fire brigade was deployed with ...

A 38-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after a fire he started in his garden spread out of control, burning around 25 acres of land in occupied Kythrea. As reported by ...

Cyprus’ halloumi production faces a ‘systemic risk’ due to the excessive concentration of milk output in a small number of farms, Professor Stavros Malas cautioned on Saturday, warning that the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Saturday that a new housing plan tailored specifically to mountain communities will be unveiled within days, setting a target to double the population of the ...

Former President George Vassiliou set Cyprus firmly on the path towards European integration and genuinely pursued a lasting settlement to the Cyprus problem during a presidency that reshaped the country’...

The health ministry is investigating several cases of unauthorised medical treatments across Cyprus, ranging from unlicensed plasma therapy to fake weight loss injectables sold through social media, it said on ...

The protective shield covering the British royal coat of arms at the old courts in occupied Nicosia has remained broken for around six months, exposing the colonial emblem to the ...

Kyrenia municipality should have an active presence in decision making processes affecting the town and its original residents, Kyrenia mayor Akis Violaris said on Saturday. He was speaking after a ...

Seventy-one former state and elected officials are collecting more than one public pension, with some entitled to as many as three after serving in different public roles, according to figures ...

A single, financially and administratively independent water authority should be created to manage resources nationwide, Nicosia district local government organisation (EOA) chief Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Saturday. Yiorkadjis told the ...

A new bill making it simpler for Cypriots living abroad to have their foreign spouse registered as a Cyprus citizen has been put forward by the interior ministry. At the ...

Five people were arrested overnight on Friday as police carried out regular patrols. Police said the operation resulted in 304 citations for various traffic violations, along with the arrests of two ...

Four people were injured after a traffic accident in the Kapsalo area of Limassol on Saturday morning. According to police, two vehicles collided, causing one of them to overturn, with ...

Former first lady Androulla Vassiliou has instructed the police officer who served as her driver to report to headquarters on Monday to receive instructions for his new post. Vassiliou said ...

A 30-year-old man is in critical condition at Nicosia general hospital, having had his hand amputated, after an explosion inside a metal warehouse in Sotira on Friday night, with police ...

Cyprus will see mostly clear skies on Saturday, though cloud is expected to build over Troodos mountains during the afternoon, bringing isolated rain and the chance of a brief thunderstorm. ...

Tourism arrivals fell some 8 per cent in the first seven months of this year, Deputy Tourism Minister Costas Koumis announced on Friday. The year is expected to close with a ...

Disy accused Akel of allowing ‘ideological entanglements’ to shape Cyprus foreign policy on Friday, after the party backed a protest against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Nicosia. ...