Rebekah Gregoriades

A forest fire near a military shooting range in Sia, Nicosia, believed to have been caused by a rogue projectile, burned five acres of pine trees and bushes on Tuesday. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday evening called for unity and empathy during an Easter address, saying the way ahead was difficult and everyone would be walking it together. He also ...

The tiny cave church of Ayioi Saranta (forty saints) cannot begin to compete with the loud jubilation we can expect to hear at midnight on Saturday as church bells across ...

Turkey is manipulating the international community on the Cyprus problem, presenting concessions and demanding reciprocation, and has lured the Greek Cypriot side into discussing trivialities, thus buying time to promote ...

Cyprus’ Animal Party called on municipalities and communities on Friday to ban any Easter activities that include animals, such as donkeys, piglets and pigeons. It said there were some activities ...

Molotov cocktails, firecrackers, iron nails, rocks, planks of wood, tyres, hoods and other items that could be used in acts of violence were confiscated on Friday, in a coordinated multi-agency ...

Only one in three pensioners are entitled to an Easter bonus this year, at a time when rising prices are “mercilessly pummelling” almost all pensioners, their union Ekysy said on ...

A visit to three supermarkets and one butcher in Limassol left Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou confident that ample products are available for the Easter feast. Panayiotou said that dozens of ...

A group of walking football clubs, made up of Cypriot and expatriate senior men – some retired, others still working – have launched a fundraising campaign to represent Cyprus at the World ...

The Nicosia district organisation (EOA) has launched an investigation into an event hall in Nicosia, following a critical Audit Office report that has fuelled tensions between the government and former ...

Former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said on Thursday that the government was telling ‘shameless lies’ by dismissing corruption allegations as ‘fake news’ regarding the apparently illegal operation of a leisure and ...

Larnaca district court has issued an eight-day remand order against the 34-year-old man arrested in Larnaca on Thursday on suspicion of kidnapping a woman, causing malicious damage and assaulting a ...

Police have arrested the 38-year-old driver of the vehicle that was involved in a fatal crash on Wednesday night, in which a 34-year-old Pakistani delivery driver was killed. Limassol traffic ...

President Nikos Christodoulides testified on Thursday in the inquiry into the content of a book by investigative journalist Makarios Drousiotis, Mafia State, in which he refers to the former and ...

The three-member committee appointed to examine the recalls process for cars – faulty Takata airbags in particular – imported from the EU and third countries continues its hearings on Thursday. At the ...

Foreign ministry permanent secretary, ambassador Andreas Kakouris, will most probably be Cyprus’ candidate for the position of president of the UN General Assembly, after he retires from his ministry post ...

The electrical interconnection between Greece and Cyprus will move forward at the right time and according to plans, Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said late on Wednesday night. Speaking on ...

A second person was arrested on Wednesday in connection with firecrackers and a pistol found in Nicosia. The police said they arrested a 24-year-old man from Nicosia. On Monday, the ...

Fire fighters in Paphos freed a person on Thursday who had been trapped in a vehicle after an accident. Fire department spokesman Andreas Kettis said on X that a call ...

Mainly fine weather can be expected over the next four days, with possible fine dust in the atmosphere from Friday onwards. Thursday will be mainly fine with a northeast to ...

A 23-year-old biker was killed at around 1.15am on Thursday in Larnaca when he lost control of his powerful motorcycle, hitting the curb and then a bus stop. The police ...

The Great Sea Interconnector project was absent from announcements and discussions in Greece following a meeting of the country’s National Security Council (Kysea) on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, ...

A cardboard box with a large amount of duty-free tobacco products was found by Limassol police in a car stopped for inspection on Tuesday, while the driver was found to ...

Speaking at ‘Stavros Stylianides’ army camp in Kornos, Nicosia, where he wished conscripts and officers a ‘Happy Easter’, President Nikos Christodoulides said the National Guard was now “stronger than ever”. “...