Rebekah Gregoriades

The EU Agency for Asylum delivered 62 reception units on Friday to Cyprus’ asylum service, for the needs of the Pournara migrant reception centre. In a post on Faceboo, the agency ...

The use of freshwater resources in Cyprus is “unsustainable”, Eurostat said on Friday, in an article to mark World Water Day, celebrated on March 22. “With temperatures rising every year, droughts ...

The Nicosia District Court issued an eight-day remand order on Friday against a 32-year-old man, who was arrested for facilitating interrogations regarding ongoing cases of robbery and extortion of money ...

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a habeas corpus ad subjiciendum demand for release filed by an international protection applicant, who had admitted various crimes, including murder, to the police. ...

The road transport department (TOM) has updated its Takata airbag recall list, as over a hundred cars under recall are now to be immobilised immediately, after information received from CIC ...

A group of Cypriots staged a protest in Nicosia on Friday afternoon against the escalating violence in Gaza and the violation of the agreed ceasefire by Israel forces. The protest ...

This year’s plan to subsidise holidays for people with disabilities was announced on Friday by the department for the social integration of the disabled. The scheme was approved by ...

Taxi drivers in the Limassol district will be on strike on Wednesday from 8am till 12 noon, the urban taxi federation decided on Friday, in a measure they hope will help ...

The EU should undertake a more active role in finding solutions to the challenges faced by the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) project, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday. The ...

Efforts to locate more survivors from the boat that capsized about 25 nautical miles off Cape Greco were terminated at 2pm on Friday. The search and rescue operation started on March 16, ...

Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos has called on the government to increase state funding to the unified municipality conceived through recent local administration reforms, as its new form demanded more spending ...

Private rehabilitation centres on Wednesday expressed serious concern over a bill regulating the operation of the centres, saying that proposed legislation in practice equates them with nursing homes and may ...

Residents who joined Nicosia municipality under the new local administration reform were in for a shock in March, when they started receiving inflated annual property tax bills. The bills appear ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Wednesday postponed until April 2 the case brought against a German real estate agent charged on 44 counts related to the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property in ...

The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), connecting the electricity grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel is now being handled on a diplomatic level as it has become a matter of foreign ...

A mortar shell about half a metre long was unearthed on Tuesday by builders working on a construction site in Peyia. Police cordoned off the area took possession of the ...

UNHCR Cyprus has raised concerns over a reported “pushback incident on March 14 involving three boats carrying approximately 80 Syrian nationals, including women and children, who had departed from Syria and reached ...

Autopsies on four of the seven victims recovered from the sea after their boat capsized off Cape Greco confirmed they had drowned, sources said on Wednesday. The examinations were conducted ...

Regulations governing the concession of Turkish Cypriot properties by the guardian and their management by refugees will be submitted to the plenum on March 27, officials on the House refugees committee ...

The Appeals Court has thrown out an appeal against a court decision to annul a police decision banning an officer from running in the 2021 parliamentary elections, it announced on Tuesday. ...

A Russian fugitive who had been detained in Cyprus for three years before being extradited to Russia to be tried for large-scale fraud was awarded damages by the European Court ...

It is increasingly unlikely that more survivors will be found from the boat that capsized off Cape Greco following the retrieval of seven bodies, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on ...

One of the 24 charges of money laundering and defrauding faced by the two accused Avakoum monastery monks, Nektarios and Porfyrios, was amended on Tuesday at the Nicosia criminal court at ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will most likely reappoint Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar as his envoy to Cyprus to prepare the ground for a second meeting of the Cyprus problem, following ...