Nikolaos Prakas

The education ministry announced on Monday that free afternoon Greek language courses will be made available to Turkish Cypriots that hold a valid ID card of the Republic of Cyprus. ...

A 22-year-old died in the village of Pyrgos, Limassol after his dirt bike crashed into an oncoming car, police said on Friday. According to Limassol police spokesman Emilios Kafas, Panayiotis ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will be visiting Archbishop Chrysostomos II on Saturday morning, an announcement from the palace said on Friday. The president will be visiting the prelate of the church, ...

Cyprus and other EU member states should have done more in the past to be prepared for the green transition and weaning themselves off fossil fuels, Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides ...

The European Union needs to do more about third countries violating sanctions on Russia, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday attending a European Council meeting in Brussels, and alluding to ...

Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides had a “strong and stern” phone conversation with Unficyp head Colin Stewart on Friday, over the works that were agreed with the north to be conducted ...

Varosha is the guiding light to a solution, and if this light goes out Cyprus will hurtle towards division, independent presidential candidate Achilleas Demetriades said on Thursday. Speaking at a ...

Two men had their driving licences suspended on Thursday for drink driving with one of them also receiving three months in prison, police said. In the first case tried by ...

Cyprus has already bought new helicopters for the National Guard and has made defence agreements with more than 15 countries, Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides said on Thursday. Speaking at a military ...

A new EU scholarship programme office was inaugurated in the north by the European Commission and Goethe Institute on Thursday, to bring Turkish Cypriots closer to the EU, an announcement ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II is doing a bit better on Thursday, his personal doctor Joseph Kashios said, following days of the prelate’s condition fluctuating as he deals with intestinal cancer. “...

Isolated showers and thunderstorms are expected in parts of the island on Thursday, with similar weather expected across the island until Saturday, the meteorological service said. Storms will be expected ...

Three stolen hunting rifles were found in an abandoned house in the village of Vasa, Limassol police said on Thursday. According to police, on Wednesday morning the rifles were found ...

Any claims that the status of Taksim football pitch within the UN buffer zone will change is wrong and misleading, Unficyp spokesman Aleem Siddique said on Wednesday following reports in ...

Voter registration can be done online as of today, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris and Deputy Minister of Research Kyriacos Kokkinos announced on Wednesday. Registration for the 2023 presidential elections will begin ...

Patriarch of Jerusalem Theofilos III will be arriving on Wednesday to visit Archbishop Chrysostomos II, who has been fighting intestinal cancer. According to reports, the archbishop’s health has been ...

Around 30,000 children from mixed marriages in the north are trying to get Cypriot IDs and passports, opposition CTP ‘MP’ Urun Solyali said on Wednesday. Solyali has said that the state-controlled ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos II’s health is stable, his personal doctor, Joseph Kashios, told the Cyprus News Agency (Cna) immediately after his evening visit to the Archbishopric on Tuesday. “The archbishop ...

October rainfall was over 200 per cent higher than the average for the whole month, the meteorological department said on Tuesday on Tuesday while some areas saw more than an average ...

Youth unemployment in Cyprus for 2021 reached 14.2 per cent, above the EU average of 13 per cent, Eurostat statistical agency reported on Tuesday. According to Eurostat, the average of unemployed people aged 15 ...

Works and renovations have begun on the Cetinkaya football pitch located in the buffer zone, after the north struck an agreement with Unficyp, reports said on Tuesday. The Cetinkaya field, ...

A day after torrential rain and storms battered the island, Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides on Tuesday praised anti-flooding works carried out by the Limassol Sewerage Board (Sala). He said that ...

Dams across Cyprus are at more than two thirds capacity, according to the latest results from the waterboard published on Monday. But according to the Kitasweather website, in just the ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Elias Hazou Torrential rains and storms battered the island on Monday, with rainfall expected to continue through to Thursday. Larnaca experienced heavy flooding while parts of ...