Rebekah Gregoriades

A bill promoting public participation and volunteer work is being sent to the cabinet for approval next Wednesday, citizens’ commissioner Panayiotis Palates has said. The bill contains provisions for a ...

The labour crisis in the construction industry deepens with the second mediation proposal put forward by the labour ministry thrown out on Wednesday by the trade unions, while repercussions are ...

Works begin on Monday for the installation of a new medium voltage cable in Paphos forest, from the village of Lysos through Stavros tis Psokas forestry station to just below ...

The House refugee committee on Tuesday called for an increase in allowances given to Greek Cypriots living in areas of the north and those who chose to return to their ...

The third phase of Larnaca’s sewerage system will be ready in 36 months and will connect the communities of Dromolaxia, Meneou, Kiti, Pervolia and Tersefanou to the system at a ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court will announce its ruling on the law concerning wealth declarations – known as ‘pothen esches’ – on Wednesday. The court announced the ruling will be made at 11am ...

The first mobile desalination units will be ready in October 2025, the water development department said on Tuesday. The department added that Cyprus was top of Europe regarding per capita storage ...

Seventeen tonnes of humanitarian aid that arrived in Cyprus on Saturday from Italy will be sent to Gaza as soon as possible via Ashdod, through the Amalthea sea corridor, foreign ...

Various problems have been identified in the vehicle recall process, including delays in notifying drivers and a shortage of spare parts, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Tuesday. “The responsibility ...

With Christmas just around the corner, the forestry department will start selling Christmas trees sourced from Cyprus’ forests that need thinning out to improve growth, it announced on Tuesday. For ...

Listed building facades in the heart of Fikardou village have been restored while maintaining their original character, as part of a landscaping project. Nicosia’s tourism board said doors and ...

Electricity outages due to increased lightning activity have burnt out power supplying the communities of Emba, Tala, Chloraka and Kissonerga in the Paphos district, with three major power cuts over ...

The marine environment of Kato Pyrgos Tillyria in the Nicosia district is in immediate danger from organic material being dumped in the sea, Cyprus conservation foundation Terra Cypria and Friends ...

Initiatives to facilitate the access of visually impaired people to Larnaca’s tourist services are being promoted by the city’s tourism board, Ayios Varnavas blind school and non-profit association ‘...

An 18-year-old was arrested on Monday night in connection with car theft. Police received a complaint that a car with the keys in the ignition had been stolen from an ...

The two young men injured in the fatal car crash in Frenaros over the weekend are recovering in hospital, while the other three who were killed will be buried later ...

Paphos police arrested two people on Monday night in connection with conspiracy to commit a felony, burglary and theft, possession of burglary tools and malicious damage. On November 13 at 10.45pm, ...

Low pressure is affecting the area, bringing clouds with isolated showers and possibly an isolated thunderstorm, initially along the west and north coast and later in the mountains, inland and ...

A 47-year-old man, wanted by the Russian authorities for fraud, was arrested in Paphos on Monday afternoon. An arrest warrant had been pending against him for fraud committed between 2006 and 2015 ...

Chanting slogans against the US and Israel and in solidarity with the Palestinians, the Cyprus coordinating committee of students (Psem) marched to the US embassy in Nicosia to mark the 51...

A total of 469 reports of sexual abuse against children were received in 2023 and 330 by October 2024, Hope for Children CRC Policy Centre said on Monday, the European day for the protection ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is in touch with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in a bid to upgrade strategic cooperation between the two countries. Christodoulides told French senators on Monday in ...

The government’s new strategy to prevent and handle violence in schools was launched on Monday, providing students, parents and teachers with the necessary tools to do so. In a ...

A child is sexually abused in Cyprus nearly every day and, although the number of cases is rising, it is a good sign, because it indicates that more and more ...