Rebekah Gregoriades

Cyprus will utilise the €1.18 billion from the EU Safe programme over a period of five years to cover defence needs and enhance the country’s role in the European security ...

A new initiative to alleviate traffic congestion in Limassol was launched on Friday by the transport ministry. Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades has sent invitations to the mayors of Limassol, Curium, ...

Greek singer Maria Farantouri was awarded the medal for outstanding contribution of the Republic of Cyprus, during a ceremony on Thursday evening. The medal was awarded by Education Minister Athena ...

The 37-year-old driver who ran over and seriously injured a 24-year-old man working on the Paphos-Limassol highway on Thursday morning told police he had been distracted. The police said the ...

Alma candidate for the May 24 parliamentary elections Maria Theristi has slammed Irene Charalambides and Nikoletta Tsikkini for remarks they made towards journalists, with Charalambides defending her reaction by saying the ...

Cyprus has qualified for the 70th Eurovision Song Contest final in Vienna. Antigoni Buxton qualified on Thursday night with Jalla. The final will be held on Saturday. The other countries ...

A new stabbing in the central prisons has come to light, although the incident has not been officially announced, according to press reports on Friday. A man claimed he had ...

The police reported 281 drivers for various traffic violations in overnight operations, including 128 for speeding. During the night, 458 vehicles were pulled over and 562 drivers and passengers checked. Three individuals were found ...

Friday starts off partly cloudy, with isolated showers expected in the mountains and to the southeast. Winds will be a southwest to northwest moderate to fresh breeze of 4 to 5 Beaufort, ...

A man working on motorway linking Paphos and Limassol on Thursday morning was seriously injured when he was hit by a passing car. The police arrived on the scene and ...

Forest firefighters staffing the Forestry Department will be staging a strike on May 25 and 26 to protest the violation of their work description. Trade unions SEK, PEO and Deok said on ...

Starring Gary Oldman with his toes poking through holes in his socks, I needed no more persuading to watch this brilliant series, which starts off with him startling himself awake ...

A 14-storey building marked as dangerous in the Omonia area of Limassol is finally being demolished. Witnesses told the Cyprus Mail that the roads have been cordoned off, and earth ...

Farmers hit by foot and mouth disease will receive compensation worth €35.6 million, the cabinet decided on Wednesday. President Nikos Christodoulides said the compensation was up to 200 per cent higher than ...

An “ongoing” initiative with the UN chief could ultimately lead to a plan for a solution of the Cyprus problem, with the upcoming expanded meeting in the coming months to ...

Stephanos Christodoulou did not crawl out of a cave or emerge from the sea. He just wants to see his children have better opportunities and this is why he is ...

Cyprus’ Animal Party will be staging a demonstration on Saturday at 11am outside parliament – currently dissolved pending the May 24 elections – to protest recent amendments to the law on dogs which ...

British Minister for European Relations Nick Thomas-Symonds said on Monday his presence on the island was a “historic moment” as he joined counterparts from the EU at the informal European ...

Sports reporter Demetris Demetriou died on Monday at the age of 65. The Union of Cyprus Journalists expressed sorrow over the loss of the “senior journalist in the field of sports ...

The views of civil servants expressed through their trade union Pasydy are “always taken into serious consideration” and implemented wherever possible, however in times of global uncertainty “stability and modernisation ...

Two food delivery drivers aged 22 and 21 told the police they had been assaulted by a group of masked people in Paphos. The police said on Monday the two drivers said ...

Four people arrested with over 1kg of cocaine were on Monday referred to the criminal court in Paphos and will remain in custody until their trial begins on June 15. The ...

The police have identified the driver who hit a 65-year-old on the motorway from Rizoelia to Kalo Chorio, in Larnaca, last week and drove a distance with the victim hanging ...

Three people were arrested on Sunday in connection with conspiracy to commit a crime, possession of an assault weapon and causing injury. The police said that at around 5am on ...