Rebekah Gregoriades

Two more people, aged 16, have been arrested for stealing money from arcade machines in Protaras, bringing the number of people arrested for the same case to six, all aged between 15 ...

A saloon car was completely destroyed by fire on Friday evening in Nicosia. Police reported that the fire broke out at 8.30pm on Friday, while the car was parked in ...

Developments in the direction of resuming stalled talks on the Cyprus problem may be announced soon, with President Nikos Christodoulides hoping this will happen in August. The president told a ...

Isotita trade union has accused the ministry of health of abusing its power by instructing the staff of the national health scheme (Gesy) supervision commissioner’s office – an independent authority – ...

A 20-metre-long mural, still in the making at Episkopi, Paphos, is now open to the public to add their own touches to the Ezoura-river-themed scene. The Episkopi Environmental Centre has ...

Since 2015, police have issued 17,624 fines for smoking in prohibited areas, ranging from €85 to €2,000 each, adding over €1.5 million to state coffers. The police, however, have been complaining for years that this ...

Antiquities removed from Cyprus in the 1960s have returned home. The Department of Antiquities announced on Friday that a total of 37 pieces, removed by a German citizen, who was at ...

Tobacco products brought illegally from the north were confiscated on Friday in the south by the Customs Department, which charged those arrested a total of €20,000 for unpaid duty and taxes. ...

The loss of hundreds of forest trees, the habitat of many of Cyprus’ wildlife species, is the main reason the cluster of communities of Mathiatis, Lythrodontas and Analyontas is opposing ...

Lung cancer, the main cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, is the second most frequent form of cancer among men in Cyprus and the fifth among women. Marking August 1, world lung ...

A mural by French artist Seth, on the wall of a privately-owned building on Strovolos avenue, opposite the town hall, has been vandalised. The mural, which was unveiled on July 3, ...

Over €41 million was paid in 2023 to private hospitals for treating patients referred through the national health scheme (Gesy), with one medical establishment in Cyprus receiving over €6 million. According to information ...

Andreas Angelides, lawyer and former Diko MP, died on Thursday. His funeral will be held on August 2 at the church of God’s Wisdom in Strovolos, at 4.30pm. Angelides was ...

Costas Antoniou, 45, accused of shooting dead 52-year-old Charalambos Constantinides on June 25 in Ormidia, did not admit to premeditated murder in court on Thursday. Antoniou has already confessed to the murder ...

The ‘goat plague’ killing off sheep and goats in Greece and Romania is not affecting Cyprus’ small ruminants, however neither the island nor the EU as a whole are turning ...

The Customs Department made seven big busts in July, confiscating duty free tobacco products, mainly brought illegally from the north to the south, with the biggest haul being 4,082 cartons of 200 ...

Police on Wednesday were investigating murder, after two charred bodies were recovered from a burning vehicle in Limassol. The car, with the two men, had been located on a dirt ...

The current state of affairs in the Cyprus problem is “not viable” and holds “serious dangers”, President Nikos Christodoulides said, opening the Cyprus diaspora convention. He also said “we should ...

The Nicosia district court has issued a four-day remand order against the fifth person arrested for the car bombing of July 4 in Nicosia. The suspect, a 27-year-old man, was arrested ...

Controlled pharmaceutical and drug products were confiscated on Tuesday during a police and heath ministry operation in Limassol. Two shops were searched after information that illegal substances were being traded. ...

Cyprus was the EU member state with the second highest percentage of workers who couldn’t afford to go on holiday in 2022, Eurostat data for the European Trade Union Confederation (...

A 28-year-old was on Tuesday sentenced to six years in prison for possession of drugs with the purpose of selling them, as well as a concurrent four-year sentence for importing ...

A 27-year-old Serbian – Alexandar Gligorijevic – has been reported missing in Ayia Napa. The police are calling for anyone who could help locate him to come forward. Gligorijevic has been missing ...

A plan called Nafkratis has been updated for migratory flows in case Cyprus needs to become a safe junction for evacuees due to an explosive situation in Lebanon and the ...