Rebekah Gregoriades

Elena Perikleous has been appointed commissioner for the protection of children’s rights, replacing Despo Michaelidou. The appointment, which will come into force on October 15 after she has resigned from ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has said he would apply for Nato membership right away if he knew he would get a positive answer, but in the meantime preparations are being made ...

A bundle of bills with amendments concerning political parties and the election of MPs, aiming at enhancing transparency and accountability, has been opened to public consultation. Any comments on the ...

Allegations of on-call specialists at state hospitals being paid for not being at work are not what they seem, state health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Wednesday. ...

Two confidential defence ministry letters regarding installations and defence projects along the buffer zone found their way into an environmental impact study, which was subsequently published online through the government’...

Five communities in the Nicosia district are facing water supply difficulties after the Vyzakia reservoir dried up, the House agriculture committee heard on Tuesday, along with pleas for immediate measures ...

The Episkopi environmental information centre will organise a ‘star party’ on October 17 at which participants can observe the Andromeda galaxy, Neptune, Saturn and other deep space objects. The stargazing event ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou warned MPs on Tuesday not to normalise making arrangements for overdue social contributions. The House labour committee continued discussions on proposed bills regarding social insurance debts, ...

The state doctors’ union Pasyki and state health services organisation Okypy are pressing on with negotiations over incentives to be given to doctors from 2025 till 2027, which doctors said were not ...

Employers’ organisations Oev and Keve will be meeting on Monday at 3pm to discuss their next steps regarding the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), after the presidency announced discussions would continue under ...

Car sharing is proving to be more of a problem than a solution in Paphos, with vehicles taking up parking places for long periods of time, Akel’s municipal group ...

Television and social media continued to be the main source of information for 72 per cent of the public, with 44 per cent stressing that misinformation and fake news were a major ...

Katie Clerides, daughter of former President Glafcos Clerides, had died at the age of 76, Disy, the party her father founded, announced on Monday. Disy said flags at party premises were ...

Greco-Cyprus relations are “stronger than ever”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday, after saying on Sunday he would not be blackmailed by Greece’s independent power transmission operator Admie and ...

A 43-year-old man from Latvia was arrested on Saturday at Larnaca airport before departing for London after customs agents found 131 cartons of 200 cigarettes each and 6kg and 950g of rolling ...

Former bishop of Kition Chrysostomos died on Sunday evening at the age of 87. Chrysostomos was born on June 4, 1938. In 1951 he became a novice of Macheras monastery and in 1956 was ordained ...

Monday starts off overcast, while ‘Barbara’ barometric low centred in Central Greece is moving east and is expected to affect the island as of Tuesday evening. Temperatures on Monday are ...

In 2020, the last leper living in the Saint Charalambos colony in Larnaca died. She was 85 and had been there since the age of 14. Abandoned and neglected, the site fell into ...

A second boat, part of the Gaza Sumud flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, docked in Paphos on Friday, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis confirmed to the Cyprus News ...

Roadworks will be carried out on motorways as of October 6, closing lanes at times and diverting traffic and the public works department urged motorists on Friday to follow signs and ...

Threats, blackmail, ‘protection’ and financial coercion appear to be behind Monday night’s attempted murder of a 42-year-old Ukrainian outside a seaside resort in Limassol. The police are looking for ...

Owners of property fully or partially destroyed in the wildfire that swept through mountainous Limassol in July are preparing to submit mass objections against their insurance companies for what they ...

Cyprus’ aquaculture sector broke records in 2024 with 9,054 tonnes of products worth €53 million, the fisheries department said on Friday. Aquaculture is a key pillar of the blue economy and an integral ...

In an effort to reach a breakthrough in the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) dispute, President Nikos Christodoulides will hold a meeting early next week with the ministers of labour and finance. ...