Nikolaos Prakas

Turkish Cypriot CTP party leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday it is the of children of mixed marriages to gain citizenship of the Republic of Cyprus and should not be ...

Theologian speaks out on endless display of saints’ relics in churches The veneration of the ‘remains’ of saints and items believed to have belonged to them is developing into a ...

Residents of Konia in Paphos demonstrated on Sunday calling for a 5G tower to be removed from their area. The protest was organised outside the village’s primary school. Participants ...

Three men arrested under suspicion of rioting during the Ael-Apollon match last earlier this week, were remanded for four days by the Limassol District Court on Sunday. According to police, ...

A huge police presence presided over the memorial service for controversial Eoka General Georgios Grivas on Sunday, to avoid protests and rioting. Over 200 officers were called in, along with the ...

An elderly woman was injured in a fire at her home in a Paphos village on Sunday, the fire service said, announcing they had put out the blaze. According to ...

Police conducted a raid on the central prisons on Sunday morning, to find information in relation to the case of prosecutor’s car set on fire a few weeks ago. ...

New measures have been introduced by the government to grant citizenships to Turkish Cypriots of mixed marriages, Deputy Government Spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on Saturday, without making clear the criteria. ...

The state is set to revert to the original i-Justice system at the start of next week, announced Deputy Research, Innovation, and Digital Policy Minister Nicodemos Damianou on Saturday, following ...

An 8-year-old boy was hit by a car on a central avenue in Nicosia on Saturday, police said in an apparent hit and run. The boy was walking on Spyros ...

Hundreds of members of the Hunters’ Movement shut down the Rizoelia roundabout in Larnaca on Saturday. The demonstrators called on the government to fulfil pre-election promises. Police anticipated the central ...

Political parties expressed concern on Saturday over the government’s decision to introduce a bill to parliament, granting them the power to hold football matches without fans. Disy, Akel, and ...

Two people were remanded for six days by the Limassol District Court on Saturday, as suspects in a spate of burglaries last year. Police said that the two individuals, a 33...

Over 200 migrants were repatriated over the past week, after they were found to be illegally residing in the Republic, police said on Saturday. According to police, a total of 239 people ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver The government will legislate to give itself the power to order football matches be played behind closed doors, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Friday, ...

A doctor, who was found guilty of indecent acts, will have to now appear in front of a disciplinary board of the Cyprus Medical Association (CyMA), which could strip him ...

Another migrant child was taken to Makarios hospital’s ICU from the Pournara reception centre, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Friday. The child, who has ...

Gay marriage would negate the gospel, Archbishop Georgios said on Wednesday, echoing in his support for the Orthodox Church of Greece’s unanimous synod opinion against gay marriage and adoption ...

House speaker Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday that lifetime benefits for the president and the House speaker need to be abolished. “I have the personal opinion that these lifetime benefits ...

Police in Paphos charged a worker and his employer for violating labour laws, authorities announced on Wednesday. According to police, during a raid on Tuesday at a construction site, officers ...

Paphos District Court sentenced a 29-year-old man to five months in jail and fined him €2,000 for damaging the courthouse, police said on Wednesday. The man was arrested in early December ...

Authorities on Tuesday called off search and rescue efforts for a migrant that reportedly went missing at sea, after diving off the ship he was on coming to Cyprus. In ...

An ad hoc committee on works in the Akamas will examine a report on the controversial roadworks on January 31, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday. The report, drawn up by ...

State authorities failed to explain anything related to Greek Cypriot property sales in the north, including the usurpation of property in Trikomo and Salamis, during questioning at the House refugee ...