Nikolaos Prakas

President Nikos Christodoulides said he hoped UN Secretary-General personal envoy Maria Holguin would soon be able to meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the Cyprus problem. Speaking to ...

Police arrested a 28-year-old man in Nicosia, who is suspected of injuring a man and a woman with a knife in a break-in, authorities said on Sunday. According to police, ...

CyBC will be paying out over a million euros to journalist Evdokia Loizou, who contracted viral encephalitis from her working conditions, the court ruled on Friday. According to the Nicosia ...

LGBT right’s group, Rainbow Families Cy, on Friday called on authorities to take issues of hate speech seriously, instead of allowing extremist rhetoric to grow, following homophobic rhetoric of ...

An increase of 472 per cent in cases against the state for asylum applications was recorded from 2020 to 2023, the legal service announced on Friday. However, there was a nine per cent ...

By April, the Cyprus Federation of Patients’ Associations (OSAK) hopes that some of its demands, which were reiterated in a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides and Health Minister Michael Damianos, ...

Student housing is of great importance to the University of Cyprus (UCy), rector Tassos Christofides said on Wednesday at the House education committee, which continued debating the university’s budget ...

Dozens of irregular migrants arrived by boat in Cyprus on Wednesday, police announced. A 21-year-old man, suspected of steering one of the two vessels that landed in Cavo Greco, was ...

The education ministry on Wednesday passed the buck on to the parents’ association of a nursery, saying it was the parents who removed a book depicting families with gay parents ...

Almost two thirds of the Cyprus will be using the waste management scheme “Pay as you throw” by the end of the year, the environment department announced on Wednesday. The ...

Notary signatures for document certification will now be done at citizen service centres, according to a law being submitted for a vote in parliament, the interior ministry announced on Wednesday. ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver The government’s goal of there being 80,000 electric vehicles in Cyprus by 2030 is “achievable,” Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Tuesday. Speaking to the ...

Urine tests for the detection of illegal substances in prisoners are carried out daily, the prisons department said on Tuesday. The department issued the statement in response to an article ...

Legal expert Gabrielle McIntyre, appointed to investigate corruption claims against former president Nicos Anastasiades, will be supported by three Cypriot lawyers with no conflict of interest, the anti-corruption authority announced ...

The new acting prisons director Charis Philippides will have a meeting with the House legal committee on Wednesday, following the official announcement he will be taking on his duties. The ...

Former President Nicos Anastasiades on Monday welcomed the appointment of Gabrielle Louise McIntyre, who is meant to investigate corruption claims against him which were written in a book. The anti-corruption ...

Only two out of eight anaesthesiologists at Makarios hospital are willing to participate in abortions, it emerged on Monday, following a complaint that a woman was forced to endure for ...

Consumers are saving approximately €7.50 on around €95 of purchases following the introduction of zero VAT rate on 11 products, the consumer protection service said on Monday. According to the service, consumers, depending ...

Abuses of the national health scheme (Gesy) are the biggest problem affecting the health sector, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Monday. Speaking on CyBC radio, Damianos said that the ...

The House human rights committee will discuss women’s reproductive rights this week, following a woman’s testimony on Saturday that it took five days for doctors at Makarios hospital ...

Applications for the solar panels through the government programme ‘Photovoltaics For All’ will be starting at the end of February, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Saturday. The ‘Photovoltaics for ...

Cows indigenous to Cyprus are starting to appear malnourished in their protected area at Akrotiri, the Animal Party said on Saturday, calling on authorities to act immediately to save them. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday expressed shock and condolences following the death of Alexei Navalny, the prominent Russian opposition leader. In a post on X, the president called Navalny a ...

A 61-year-old was remanded by the Famagusta District Court for five days, on suspicion of scamming another individual out of thousands of euros, authorities said on Saturday. The 61-year-old claimed ...