Jonathan Shkurko

Nine out of ten forest fires are caused by human factors, director of the Forestry Department Petros Petrou said on Monday. He said that 2000 to 2020 a total of 1,068 fires were ...

News that the UK government might open up summer holidays abroad for vaccinated Britons have been welcomed by tourism industry players in Cyprus, who hope that less red tape for ...

After the blow inflicted by the UK’s decision to delay the easing of coronavirus measures in England, Deputy Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios reiterated on Wednesday that Cyprus deserves to ...

The rift splitting the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus remains in place after six out seven of its members who disagreed with Archbishop Chrysostomos’ recognition of the independence ...

No new deaths from coronavirus were announced on Tuesday while 64 new cases were recorded. The cases were found from 35,729 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 0.18 per cent. Meanwhile ...

The theft of 44 catalytic converters worth a combined value of €5,000 from a warehouse in Paphos is under investigation by the Paphos CID, the police said on Tuesday. A 50-year-old man ...

The health ministry announced a total of 69 rapid test sites will operate around the island on Wednesday. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

A 24-year-old man was remanded for seven days on Tuesday for allegedly raping a foreign woman living in Paphos on Sunday at 4am. The police identified the man after examining ...

Cyprus’ Real Estate Registration Council revealed on Monday that on average three to nine cases of malpractice within the sector are reported daily in the island. According to the council’...

Eighteen teams are due to compete in the European Athletics Team Championships Third League on June 19 and 20. The event will be held at Limassol’s Tsirion Stadium. Of the 18 teams, ...

Gulf Air will on Friday start direct flights between Larnaca and Athens, it announced on Monday. The flights will take place on Fridays and Sundays and be operated by the ...

A BirdLife Cyprus study made available on Thursday revealed that Lake Soros, located in the southwestern part of the salt lake near Meneou, is at risk of lead contamination due ...

A turtle that was lying still at the bottom of the sea in Ayia Napa after being caught in some fishermen’s nets was resuscitated by amateur diver George Argiriou, ...

There’s something wonderfully refreshing and liberating about eating surrounded by green. Even just thinking about a meal enjoyed in a garden fills me with positive vibes. That said, the ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides congratulated everyone involved in the military exercise that took place on Thursday morning. The exercise, called ‘Nikitis-Dimitra 2021’ saw the participation of National Guard conscripts and reservists, ...

Members of the Cyprus’ association for recreation centre owners (Pasika) on Thursday welcomed the reopening of nightclubs today, ahead of the crucial summer season. In a statement made to the ...

Two beaches will be opened for the summer season in the fenced-off city of Varosha, its ‘mayor’ Ismail Arter said on Wednesday. Speaking to Turkish news agency Anadolu, Arter said ...

Larnaca will not tolerate the strong presence of a red dust which appears linked to activities at the port, the town’s mayor Andreas Vyras told the Cyprus News Agency ...

Caliphate is one of Netflix’s vainest attempts to expand its boundaries by transporting the viewer to a context they might not be overly familiar with, perhaps not as much ...

A total of 20 flights from Russia that were due to land in Cyprus throughout last week have not been able to depart due to the fact that the Russian government ...

Ten migrants who were attempting to make their way into the Republic from the north were arrested by Turkish Cypriot authorities on Wednesday. The migrants arrived by boat after they ...

An island-wide initiative to reduce the plastic footprint in Cyprus is currently underway, thanks to the effort of Netherlands-based social enterprise “Searious Business”, in cooperation with the Cyprus Sustainable Tourism ...

In the past week alone, checks on the state of vehicles on the road found that over one third had defective headlights, indicators or brake lights, and over 17 per cent ...

The customs department seized over nine kilos of cannabis and confiscated around 67,000 cigarettes across Cyprus in May. On top of that, it also seized 893 cigars, almost 29 kilos of loose tobacco, 8,690 ...