Nikolaos Prakas

A 42-year-old man was arrested under suspicion of committing two break-ins and robberies in the Famagusta area, police said on Tuesday. According to police, a shop owner in Famagusta reported ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 23-year-old for damaging the door of the welfare office and causing a fracas, authorities said on Tuesday. The individual from Nigeria went to the welfare ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Monday inaugurated Cyprus’ first Ronald McDonald House, which will be in the Ayios Demetrios area of Strovolos, Nicosia. The American non-profit will be located across ...

Agriculture ministry officials began checks at supermarkets on Monday, which to ensure they were stocking their shelves with PDO halloumi. An agreement reached between cheese makers, farmers and the ministry ...

One in nine people aged over 65 will develop Alzheimer’s or dementia, the deputy head of the non-profit organisation ‘Min Me Lismonis’ (Forget-me-not), Costas Kapitanis said at a news conference ...

The Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, said there was a lack of specialised services that to prevent ‘parental alienation’ which often resulted from divorce. Michaelidou ...

Aiming to help expats learn to speak the language with help from locals, the Greek for Freak initiative was launched this week in Kissonerga, organiser Alice Moustier told the Sunday ...

Lawyers for the prison director and her deputy said on Friday the system would continue to go against them even after a report into allegations and counter-allegations between the director ...

Revisions to the law on the management of Turkish Cypriot properties are expected to be tabled to parliament in October to cover a multi-million deficit, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said ...

The Ineia community council sent a formal letter of complaint on Friday to President Nicos Anastasiades over the Akamas development plan approved by the government. According to the community council, ...

Cyprus Airways on Friday announced 28 weekly flights to key destinations as part of its winter flight schedules, due to start on October 30. There will be two daily flights to Athens, ...

The council of ministers has approved a law allowing anyone over age 16 to legally have their gender changed on official documents without having undergone gender reassignment surgery, according to reports ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Thursday the ministry would examine a bullying incident at a Limassol gymnasium, where a boy put another classmate in a headlock as other children ...

A diver was taken to Famagusta General with decompression sickness on Thursday, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre said. According to JRCC, they received a call at 10:12 am near the ‘Zenobia’ ...

Police in Limassol arrested five people found in possession of a total of 45 grammes of heroin, according to their announcement on Thursday. The five individuals ages, 21, 36, 22, 21, and 34, were arrested on ...

Famagusta police arrested a 22-year-old tourist for drink driving and driving without a licence early Thursday morning. According to Famagusta police spokesman Steve Theodoulou, the 22-year-old was signalled to stop ...

Limassol mayor Nicos Nicolaides said on Wednesday that everything is ready for the 61st Wine Festival, which will start on Saturday and run for a week. During a press conference, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades praised the work done by the Karaiskakio foundation and pledged the government’s continued support through yearly donations at a philanthropic dinner at the Presidential Palace on ...

The remains of a fourth man killed by Eoka B, 48 years ago on July 16, were found on Wednesday in a grave on Limassol nearby a grave excavated in July, which ...

Two areas in Cyprus were on Wednesday declared by the cabinet as ‘white zones’, forbidding any development in the areas until September 2023, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said. The ruling affects ...

Eleven more people from the advisory committees on management of Turkish Cypriot properties will also be examined by the audit office and the attorney general’s office, according to reports ...

Groups affected by the 1974 Turkish invasion on Tuesday told the House refugees committee that more needs to be done to support them as some of them, including women raped during ...

A quarter of the people currently working for the government department charged with managing Turkish Cypriot properties have benefitted from owning such a property, the House Refugees Committee heard on ...

Human rights groups have called for the immediate release of bicommunal activist Andreas Soudjis who was arrested in the north in August and is could be released on Wednesday as ...