Rebekah Gregoriades

The UN secretary-general’s new initiative for a solution of the Cyprus problem will possibly begin with the start of the new year, assistant secretary-general Miroslav Jenca said on Thursday. ...

The 16-year-old from Palestine, who appears to be the driver in the fatal road accident in Larnaca on Wednesday night, has been issued a seven-day remand order to facilitate police ...

The European Commission has initiated two new procedures against Cyprus regarding water management and the submission of updated national energy and climate plans. The Commission issued a formal notice to ...

The prisons department found drugs in the possession of an inmate on Thursday after he had received a scheduled visit. The drugs were confiscated and handed over to the police ...

About 650 state hospital doctors, set to receive €19.1 million over and above their salaries, overtime and allowances, to keep up financially with their private sector peers, are to go on strike ...

Canadian veterans who served in Unficyp, known as Operation Snowgoose, returned to the island last week to mark the 60th anniversary of the force. Over 28,000 Canadians have served in Cyprus ...

To mark 180 years of service to the people of Larnaca, the Order of St Joseph of the Apparition is presenting a documentary highlighting its contribution to education in multilingualism and ...

One in three people in Cyprus smoke, multinational tobacco company Philip Morris said on Tuesday presenting the results of its latest survey. It added that most of these smokers are ...

The Environment Department confirmed on Friday that works have been carried out with heavy vehicles on the beach of Pyrgos in Limassol, resulting in extensive impact on the sand dunes ...

A 41-year-old man wanted in Limassol for kidnapping was arrested on Friday in Paphos after a police chase. Paphos police deputy operations manager Michalis Nicolaou said police received a tipoff ...

Law commissioner Louiza Christodoulou Zannetou told MPs on Friday that her office remained understaffed, despite provisions for two additional employees. Speaking at the House finance committee, which was discussing the ...

The labour ministry has dismissed press reports that the EU has launched procedures against Cyprus for not meeting the minimum percentage of the workforce covered by collective agreements. A labour ...

Cosmetics withdrawn from the European market may also be in Cyprus and the health ministry has called on consumers to stop using them. There is currently no concrete information regarding ...

Trade union Sek approved on Friday an agreement in principle for the renewal of the collective agreement for hotel industry workers. In a press release, Sek said its answer has ...

Part-time employees in Cyprus dropped from 9.1 per cent in 2022 to 8 per cent in 2023, far below the EU average of 17.1 per cent, among workers aged 20 to 64, according to Eurostat. In 2023, the ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Saturday praised the signing of a maintenance, repair and overhaul offload agreement between GE Aerospace and the United Aerospace Maintenance Company (UAMCO) of Cyprus. He ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Saturday ruled out the possibility of a resumption of talks to solve the Cyprus problem and reiterated his position for a two-state solution. Speaking ...

Cyprus’ police will take part in the European week for lorries and buses next week which will include intensive checks on the vehicles to make sure everything is in line ...

Turkish Cypriot trade union for nurses and midwives KTHES on Saturday threatened to take action if the ‘health minister’ and his team did not resign over the death of an ...

Any form of service in the National Guard should be acknowledged as an honour for the conscripts and their families, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Saturday. Speaking at a ...

The fire service has rescued two people who were injured in separate incidents, one falling from a block of flats onto a garage roof and another while cleaning photovoltaic panels, ...

Former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides lashed out at President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday, saying he was “not telling the truth” about developments leading up to his dismissal from the Audit Office. “...

Human bones belonging to those who died in 1974, as well as people missing from as far back as 1964, have been placed in boxes and left among furniture in a warehouse ...

Police arrested a 23-year-old man on Friday evening in connection with burglaries and theft in Larnaca. At 1.30am, police received a call that a civilian had found a person acting ...