Rebekah Gregoriades

Cyprus ranked 20th out of 27 EU countries for the use of renewable energy in transport in 2023, reaching 7.28 per cent compared to 7.22 per cent in 2022, Eurostat reported on Friday. Across the ...

The Road Transport Department (TOM) has at long last set up a call centre to provide vehicle owners with valid information regarding faulty airbag recalls. Owners can call the helpline ...

Cyprus must implement a comprehensive national strategy for people with autism, House president Annita Demetriou said on Friday, stressing that it is the state’s responsibility to support those diagnosed ...

A Syrian boat captain was imprisoned for three years after he was found guilty by the Famagusta criminal court for causing the death by negligence of a three-year-old girl, also ...

The House will review amendments to animal welfare legislation in the coming months, focusing on dog euthanasia policies and mandatory microchipping to improve pet and gun dog tracking. Plans will ...

Cyprus has recorded a 275.5 per cent increase in bloodstream infections caused by Enterobacterales resistant to carbapenem antibiotics, placing it fourth among EU countries facing this growing healthcare threat. According to ...

MPs expressed general support on Thursday for a bill introducing automatic voter registration, though some raised concerns about allowing 17-year-olds to vote. Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou told the House internal ...

Israeli land developer Simon Aykut, who was arrested in early June and is accused of having developed and sold €43 million worth of property on Greek Cypriot land in the north, ...

The transport ministry has never stopped working on the airbag recall issue, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday, adding that he was saddened by the fact that Yiannos Oxinos, ...

The first payments in compensation to depositors who lost their savings in the devastating bank bail-in of 2013 will be sent out by the end of June this year, Finance Minister ...

Construction works on five more blocks of flats for refugees are set to begin in the first half of 2025, in the framework of the interior ministry’s Ktizo plan. In ...

The recall of vehicles fitted with deadly Takata airbags is proving a nightmare for Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades, and not least because the grieving father of a young man killed ...

Car dealerships in Cyprus are set to collect millions by charging administrative costs or free airbag replacements in affected cars. Toyota’s dealership, which has the largest number of cars ...

The road transport department (TOM) and a car importer could face legal action if the attorney-general’s office determines they bear criminal liability for the death of 24-year-old Kyriakos Oxinos, ...

A policewoman sustained leg injuries during incidents after the AEK vs AEL football match in Larnaca on Sunday, when fans hurled rocks, Molotov cocktails and flares against police officers. The ...

The transport ministry issued two decrees on Monday regulating over 80,000 recalls, mostly for potentially fatal Takata airbags over an ambitious period of up to eight months, with the priority being ...

The Cyprus Architects Association on Monday slammed the recent demolition of an iconic Nicosia 1930s home, calling for an improved mechanism to evaluate and list historic buildings, including modernist ones. ...

Death threats received by President Nikos Christodoulides may be linked to the trial of Turkish-Jewish land developer Simon Aykut, who was arrested in early June and is accused of the ...

Police arrested a 24-year-old man on Sunday in connection with ongoing investigations into a case of child pornography. Investigations began after a Europol tipoff that an online app user had ...

Nurses union Pasyno on Monday added its voice to condemnations of an attack against medical staff at Polis Chrysochous hospital over the weekend, calling on the state to protect health ...

Two cars were damaged in a fire that broke out in the Drosia area of Larnaca in the early hours of Monday. Fire department spokesman Andreas Kettis said in a ...

A 36-year-old Egyptian man was sentenced to 18 months and one week imprisonment in Dhekelia on January 29 after being found guilty of grievous bodily harm, it was announced on Monday. The ...

Police arrested 38 third-country nationals on Sunday for illegally residing in Cyprus. The arrests were made in the framework of a Cyprus-wide operation to locate and repatriate individuals residing illegally on ...

A 41-year-old man will be taken before Larnaca district court on Monday after he was arrested on Sunday on suspicion of theft, acceptance of stolen goods, illegal possession of property ...