Rebekah Gregoriades

Limassol municipality has postponed all carnival events scheduled for Saturday as the funerals will be held of the five family members that perished in a fire in the Ayios Nikolas ...

A group called ‘Syrians in Cyprus’ has called for the partial lifting of a freeze on asylum applications from Syria, saying in letters to the interior minister and deputy migration ...

Five people were injured in a road accident in Paphos on Monday, when three cars crashed into each other and one overturned. Police said the accident happened along Nicolaos Nicolaides ...

Gender-based violence should be thoroughly looked into through investigation and control mechanisms, as the mere condemnation of cases was not enough, MPs said on Monday at the House human rights ...

Ambulance services should be left to those who know the daily difficulties in real cases and not imaginary numbers, the association of private ambulances said on Monday and called for ...

All electrical devices in Cyprus should be EU-certified and the public should make sure they are using them correctly, as a number of fires over the past years started from ...

The eCall system fitted in cars under a compulsory EU regulation for the past seven years or so, to send precise locations to the emergency services in case of a ...

Trade unions Sek, Peo and Deok have sent a letter to President Nikos Christodoulides calling on him to annul a cabinet decision to gradual drop 1,000 hourly workers by 2035 and to ...

Europa Nostra, the leading European movement for the protection of cultural heritage, is inaugurating a Heritage Hub in Nicosia later this month, to serve as a regional cultural meeting point. ...

The first out of 28 traditional phone booths turned into a time capsule is welcome its first visitors in Agros village, where those who enter can travel back in time and ...

The court agreed to a final postponement in the case of former volunteerism commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki on Friday, after being assured by the defence and prosecution that efforts were being ...

Party leaders were briefed on Friday by President Nikos Christodoulides on the latest developments in the Cyprus problem, following recent meetings held by UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs ...

The Nicosia criminal court decided on Thursday that Israeli land developer Simon Aykut, charged with the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property in the north, will remain in custody until March 26, ...

The two accused Avakoum monastery monks, Nektarios and Porfyrios, did not answer to the charges they are facing on Thursday and proceedings have been postponed anew till March 18. The monks ...

United Nations under-secretary-general for peacebuilding Rosemary DiCarlo on Thursday afternoon met Turkish deputy foreign minister and European Union affairs director Mehmet Kemal Bozay in Ankara. The meeting was the latest ...

Applicants for land through a state programme intended for low-income families were found to have relatives with immovable assets which should have been taken into consideration and the application dismissed, ...

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis reiterated on Wednesday that a solution to the Cyprus problem was an “absolute priority” for his country. In a meeting with UN under-secretary-general for peacebuilding ...

The cabinet on Wednesday approved an amendment to legislation proposed by the health ministry, strengthening disciplinary check procedures, enhancing transparency and institutionalising life-long learning for doctors. Health Minister Michael Damianos ...

Taking into consideration the plethora of projects that have been successfully completed and delivered, those that have been cut short are “the exception to the rule”, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades ...

An enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, involving both the island’s communities as well as all three guarantor powers and the United Nations, will go ahead in the Swiss ...

Faulty Takata airbags had another day in the sun on Tuesday, as MPs discussed certain dealerships charging car owners to check if their airbags needed replacing, while answers provided by ...

A proposed bill, promising to offer relief to people with disabilities, was presented on Tuesday at the House labour committee and, following an open discussion over coming weeks, will be ...

The Nicosia criminal court will decide on Thursday if Israeli land developer Simon Aykut, charged with the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property in the north, will remain in custody until ...

Cyprus is developing intelligent transport systems (ITS) and investing in state-of-the-art technology to improve the capacity of the road network, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Tuesday. In an address ...