Jean Christou

A burglary suspect who removed loose glass bricks to get out of a police detention cell in Lakatamia in Nicosia on Thursday night was named on Friday by police who ...

A second-floor balcony collapsed and fell from an apartment building in Germasogeia early on Friday morning, just over a month after a previous incident, also in the Limassol area. It ...

The audit office said on Friday it was going to report Cyprus’ long-delayed project for the creation of a liquefied natural gas arrival terminal at Vasiliko to the European Prosecutor’...

The cabinet on Friday announced the names of people selected as the presidents and members of the boards of directors of semi-government organisations (SGO). Along with the 16 new SGO heads, ...

Following the crash of the e-justice system within a day of its launch on Monday, the audit office will next week send a report to the IT department of the ...

Cyta has put into operation the 4th photovoltaic system in its buildings, this time at its head offices, it announced on Friday. At the same time, the installation of photovoltaic ...

The Greens on Friday called for a complete re-design of the Akamas plan, saying a reversal of the controversial road works does not go far enough in protecting the national ...

The state and the private sector are joining forces to try and bridge the gaps in the jobs market in the IT sector with a targeted programme to attract and ...

Thirty people were nabbed while driving without licence or insurance during a police clampdown in Limassol on Thursday. In total, over 140 drivers were caught for various offences, police said. Twenty ...

Makarios children’s hospital in Nicosia remains 95 per cent occupied with young patients suffering from respiratory infections, flu and some Covid 19, but mainly with RSV, the director of the paediatric ...

Cypriot doctor Nikolas Papachrysostomou, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders who recently returned from five weeks in Gaza, said nothing and no one is safe in the strip that is ...

By Jean Christou The budget of the Cyprus Addiction Treatment Authority has been increased by €600,000 for 2024 MPs heard on Thursday. However, some raised concerns that several addiction prevention programmes had ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has left a deep imprint on the psyche of the nation, according to the latest report of the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee, which was handed over on ...

Cyprus is not on board with aspects of the UN Secretary-General’s reports on Unficyp’s mandate and Antonio Guterres’ Good Offices Mission, especially as regards incidents in the buffer ...

The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Cyprus, Colin Stewart, on Thursday expressed concerns about the increasing militarisation of the buffer zone and said that the latest report on ...

There was no flood or fire warning system in the server room that was brought down by a water leak in April last year, and no CCTV monitoring, a report ...

The government has expanded free pre-primary education from the age of four years and eight months to four years and six months with the aim of eventually bringing it down ...

An investigation into the alleged theft of electronic items confiscated by customs officials is in its final stages, reports said on Thursday. Three customs officials are under investigation as part ...

The Paraplegics’ Organisation has won this year’s ‘Stella Soulioti’ annual human rights award, which will presented at the foreign ministry on December 28, along with the €10,000 prize. The award was ...

The cabinet has approved a proposal for changes concerning the implementation of the Sustainable Development Plan (SDP) projects for the Akamas National Park, specifically a review of the contentious roadworks ...

Paphos municipality has sent a letter to the Bishopric hoping to put an end to a long legal battle over the construction of a church in the public gardens that ...

A 47-year-old man was arrested in the early hours of Wednesday after police said they found 29 boxes containing a total of 174 bottles of illegal booze hidden in his car. In ...

The minimum wage will go up from €940 to €1,000 a month, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou announced on Wednesday after the cabinet meeting, in a move that has left the island’s ...

The current legislative framework does not ensure the financial independence of the audit service, which is being stymied by the executive branch, it said yesterday in its annual report. The ...