Johanna Pauls

As part of a two-day visit, Agriculture and Environment Minister Maria Panayiotou on Friday attended the final meeting of the EU’s environment council in Aalborg, Denmark, where key issues ...

Hermes airports on Friday evening announced that departing passengers at Larnaca airport could soon again pass their waiting time before boarding by painting canvases of well-known art pieces. “At the ...

Parliament on Thursday evening passed the long-discussed legislation on offering foreign language study programmes at public universities, allowing the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) to ...

A forest fire caused by an Electricity Authority (EAC) transmitter that broke out in Galata in the Kakopetria area on Friday has been brought under full control. According to the ...

A yellow weather warning for extreme maximum temperatures was issued by the Met Office on Friday. According to the warning, maximum temperatures will rise to around 40C inland and around 32...

A €3,070 was issued against a 65-year-old man caught with a net in the Paphos area, police said on Friday. The man was arrested in a Turkish Cypriot village in Paphos ...

Next week’s expanded informal meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar is expected to set the tone for further negotiations and assess the progress made ...

A head-on collision at the Kapedes-Kambia road in Nicosia at 7.30am on Thursday saw an eight-year-old and two 57-year-old women hospitalised, with one of the women needing to be intubated ...

The Cyprus journalists’ union (ESK) urged the government on Thursday to support Turkish Cypriot journalist Sener Levent and denounce Turkey for imposing a prison sentence on him. “ESK has consistently ...

The bus driver involved in a circulating video capturing a dispute between him and some teenage passengers has been suspended, transport company Emel said on Wednesday. A video of the ...

The police on Wednesday issued an announcement warning of a new scam which is falsely promising tax refunds via text messages. “If you receive a similar message, ignore it and ...

A retired couple was sentenced to four years in prison at Larnaca district court on Wednesday for scamming three elderly women out of over €100,000 by pretending to be medical professionals ...

A sixth person, aged 18, was arrested by police late on Tuesday suspected of being involved in a Paphos robbery on June 29 in which two tourists were injured. In the last ...

President Nikos Christodoulides speaking at the 30th anniversary event of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) emphasised it’s crucial role in the ‘security architecture’ of the Eastern Mediterranean and ...

Currently there are around 89 programs and residences in place facilitating approximately 1,000 disabled people, the Deputy Welfare Ministry said on Monday, responding to concerns raised by the labour committee earlier in ...

A 57-year-old Nicosia businessman fell victim to a phone scam that saw him lose €14,500 on Monday afternoon, police reported on Tuesday. The man first received a phone call from an ...

The water of Memi lake in the Xyliatos area could not be used for interrogation purposes due to environmental concerns, experts from the agriculture ministry told the House agriculture committee ...

A special report by the Audit Office on Tuesday revealed missing records and a lack of transparency in the operation of 12 non-parliamentary political parties between 2016 and 2021 and called for the ...

MPs on Tuesday said they were concerned about living conditions of disabled people both private and state care homes. “Poor hygiene conditions, inadequate medical care, lack of adequate staffing and ...

The United Nations is “working hard to get results” on confidence-building measures regarding the Cyprus problem ahead of next week’s enlarged meeting in New York, UN envoy Maria Angela ...

A large quantity of unmarked and suspected counterfeit goods was seized during an inspection at a transport company in Limassol, the customs department said on Monday. The operation, carried out ...

The fire department  on Sunday evening set up a rescue operation to transport a woman who was injured with a sprained leg at a beach in the Pomos area. Due ...

Planning to create a municipal museum in the historic centre of the city, Paphos municipality on Monday appealed to residents to donate objects related to the history and tradition of ...

The Cyprus issue, water scarcity issues and forest fires in the EU and developments in the Middle east will be among the topics discussed in the European Parliament’s (EP) ...