Rebekah Gregoriades

Fire-stricken residents of mountainous Limassol are receiving support from the government, with some cabinet decisions having already been implemented in full, mountains commissioner Charalambos Christofinas said on Tuesday. He said ...

A website and Facebook page have been set up under the name ‘fothkia.com – The voice of Cyprus’ burned mountains’, urging people to sign a petition to force change so ...

Significant human rights issues, including cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, persisted in the Republic of Cyprus in 2024, according to a US State Department report released on Wednesday. While ...

The Nicosia criminal court will pass sentence on September 10 for five people found guilty of the murder of Turkish Cypriot Tansu Cidan in the central prisons in Nicosia. On Wednesday, ...

The education ministry envisions an experiential and creative school in which students actively participate and grow into members of society with morals and dignity, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on ...

Fourteen businesses that suffered losses in last month’s wildfire in the Limassol mountainous areas have received a total of €39,760 as the first installment of compensation, the energy ministry announced ...

The 13-year-old boy from Syria who had disappeared from a shelter in Nicosia last week and had been found safe in the north may not be handed over to the ...

Compensation is being paid out to people who lost their homes and livelihoods in the blaze that swept through mountainous Limassol last month, with 286 beneficiaries already receiving approximately €2 million in ...

A 45-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday after police found over nine kilos of cocaine during a coordinated operation in Limassol. The man had been under surveillance and was seen ...

The police will be closing Larnaca Avenue in Nicosia to continue investigations into the fatal accident of July 29. Both lanes of the avenue will be closed from 10pm from ‘Maro’ ...

A red weather warning has been issued for Wednesday and Thursday, valid from 11am till 5pm. The Meteorological Department announced on Tuesday that temperatures on Wednesday are expected to peak ...

Meeting electricity demands will be tough and power cuts started at 6.41pm, the Transmission System Operator said on Tuesday. It said power cuts were necessary to maintain the safe operation ...

Residents and local authorities said on Tuesday they are making efforts to adapt to their new reality after a wildfire swept through villages in mountainous Limassol last month. With the ...

A silent protest for the journalists killed while covering developments in Gaza will be held on Thursday in Nicosia. “Their silence is forced – ours is a choice,” a poster calling ...

Blue Flags are turning out to be a bone of contention, with the Cyprus Greens saying they can be misleading as they still fly on heavily polluted beaches but Cymepa – ...

The ruins of seven monuments – churches and watermills – damaged during last month’s wildfire that swept through mountainous Limassol will be protected, Deputy Minister for Culture Vasiliki Kassianidou said on ...

If you live in Cyprus and are taking the first step in learning you will find Greek is useful in the written word, but not so much in a shop ...

Twenty years ago on August 14, 2005, a Boeing 737-300 took off at 9.07am from Larnaca airport with 115 passengers and six crew on board. By 12.03pm, no one on that Helios Airways ...

Student accommodation prices have reached record levels, with single rooms costing around €350 per month, while beds in dormitories remain scarce, the Cyprus Federation of Student Unions (Pofen) has said. Speaking ...

Before his retirement party has properly ended, CIA operative Luke Brunner (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is dragged back into action for one last job that turns his world upside down, as the ...

An architectural competition has been launched in Larnaca to transform the former leper colony in the salt-lake area into an environmental awareness centre, at an estimated cost of €2,6 million. The ...

A bus company has been fined €4,000 for failing to implement preventive and precautionary safety measures following a risk assessment, particularly in relation to the operation and use of Kinglong buses, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides expressed his shock and deep sorrow on Friday for the death of Lena Samara, daughter of former prime minister of Greece Antonis Samaras. Lena Samara died of ...

Ruth Keshishian, who had an encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of Cyprus’ history and literature, and owned the Moufflon Bookshop in Nicosia for decades, passed away on Wednesday night. She was 81. ...