Rebekah Gregoriades

A fire on Tuesday morning caused damage to a bakery in Athienou. Fire Department spokesman Andreas Kettis said the fire started at around 8.30am in a gas oven and three ...

A 43-year-old, who had been wanted for questioning regarding the theft of a lorry, malicious damage to property and conspiracy to commit a crime, was arrested on Monday and placed ...

Low barometric ‘Elena’, centred in the south Adriatic Sea, is moving in a southeast direction and is beginning to affect the island. Tuesday will be mainly cloudy in the morning ...

Fire at Limassol house, residents in hospital At least five people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out at 7am in their first-floor house in Apostolos Andreas neighbourhood ...

Members of the special forces’ underwater demolition team, chief of staff lieutenant general Georgios Tsitsikostas and MEP Loucas Fourlas braved the icy water of Limassol’s sea on Saturday to “...

A group of about 15 young people caused a fire in an abandoned metalsmith’s in the early hours of Saturday, next to a building housing agricultural workers. Nobody was injured. ...

The state health organisation said it would be looking into Friday’s reports regarding the embezzlement of more than €30 million for neurolysis treatments and would take action “if deemed necessary”. ...

The Fire Department responded to a total of 35 calls since Friday, 20 of which were fires. At 11.52pm on Friday, Paphos firefighters responded to a fire in a private vehicle that ...

Unficyp vehicles were still in the Frenaros-Vrysoulles buffer zone on Saturday morning, after tension escalated on Friday between peacekeepers and farmers cultivating their land. The UN filed a formal police ...

The departure of Syria’s ex-president Bashar al-Assad, “in the manner he left, cannot considered anything but a very positive development,” President Nikos Christodoulides told a gathering in Athens on ...

A fire totally destroyed a 125cc motorcycle on Saturday at 4am, in Strovolos. The bike was parked at the side of the road and appears to belong to a 28-year-old, ...

Police are close to solving a series of cases concerning recent burglaries and theft in Famagusta district, after arresting a 41-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman. The suspects’ apartment was ...

A yellow warning has been issued for thunderstorms over the weekend, starting at 11am on Saturday and ending at 4am on Sunday. The Meteorological Department expects isolated heavy thunderstorms, mainly ...

Cyprus’ citrus trees may be wiped out if a sap-sucking bug thought to have found its way to the island last year through compost in travellers’ luggage, becomes infected with ...

The second wave of air-conditioning for schools has been approved by the education ministry, as well as the landscaping of two adjoining schools, with a budget of €1.5 million, chairwoman of ...

A new health scandal surfaced on Friday regarding the embezzlement of more than €30 million for neurolysis over a period of two years, with treatments allegedly skyrocketing from 100 per year before ...

Delineating an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) between Turkey and Syria, which would disregard Cyprus’ sovereign rights, will not be accepted, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said. Speaking at a ...

Passengers passing through Cyprus’ airports in Larnaca and Paphos reached a record high on Friday, with traffic exceeding 12 million passengers, as was predicted earlier in the week. “This important achievement ...

Larnaca shop owners on Friday blasted works that began in November to remodel the commercial centre, saying that business has been affected as Christmas shoppers can’t get to them. ...

A house was broken into on Thursday night in Mouttalos, Paphos, and the burglars managed to get away with €500 and electronic equipment, while the owner was out. Police investigated the ...

Cyprus, EIB sign agreement to fund island roadworks By Rebekah Gregoriades The vice president of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Kyriacos Kakouris, on Friday signed the first €100 million tranche of ...

Mainly fine weather with clouds can be expected on Friday, with isolated showers in the evening. Winds will be a gentle to moderate north to northeast breeze, 3 to 4 Beaufort, over ...

Pentakomo harbour threatens seals, say environmentalists Environmental organisations have called for the immediate termination of works on the Pentakomo harbour, which are threatening the Mediterranean monk seal and the surrounding ...

As part of the EU’s effort to form a close relationship with young people, Fisheries Commissioner Costas Kadis met on Thursday with Education Minister Athena Michaelidou in a bid ...