Rebekah Gregoriades

Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias is on a visit to Cyprus on Monday, the 50th anniversary of the 1974 coup. During his stay, he will meet with his Cypriot counterpart Vasilis ...

Were people members of a cult 4,000 years ago in Bronze Age Cyprus, and did they use monoliths like the mysterious one found in Erimi? Is a skeleton with a bludgeoned ...

A buzzard shot down by illegal hunters is added to the long list of violations at Achna reservoir, where one can maybe find a wildflower amid the household rubbish, animal ...

A US decision to shut down the humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza “does not affect the continuation of the Amalthea initiative at all,” government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said ...

UN involvement in the Cyprus issue will be discussed later on Friday when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis meets UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York. Mitsotakis affirmed on Thursday ...

State health services (Okypy) hourly staff will stage a 24-hour strike on July 23 to protest unmet demands and perceived mistreatment. The strike will begin at 6.30am on July 23 and end ...

Cyprus, which lost 89 people to antibiotic resistance in 2020, is striving to reduce the use of the drugs in livestock farming, but there is still a long way to go. Data ...

Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides has blamed “procrastination” for the failure to recover state land illegally exploited in Paralimni for the past 39 years. In a report made public on Thursday and forwarded ...

Thursday morning’s flare up of the Miliou fire is being contained, while police are investigating the cause of the fire that broke out on Wednesday afternoon between Miliou, Yiolou ...

Mediterranean monk seals, the most rare and endangered marine mammal in Europe, will be once again using Cyprus’ sea caves to give birth between September and December, after a 10-month ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou appeared optimistic that the builders’ collective agreement, pending since 2022, would be finalised this month. Panayiotou presented to the employers and trade unions on Wednesday the mediation ...

The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) human medicines committee (CHMP) is recommending that the marketing authorisation for a liver disease drug be revoked because its benefits are no longer considered ...

Celebrating four years of innovation and growth in Cyprus, bus company Cyprus Public Transport (CPT) on Tuesday said its 600 employees oversee the transport of over 36,000 passengers a day. CEO Julio ...

A portrait of President Nikos Christodoulides will be adorning his office as of Tuesday – a gift from the artists themselves. A group of preschoolers visited the president and asked him ...

A 46-year-old British man was on Tuesday sentenced to 22 years in prison for the manslaughter of Ioannis Polykarpou, who was fatally injured on January 21, 2023, when he was deliberately run down. ...

Cyprus and the FBI are to work together on clearing Cyprus’ name regarding the naturalisation through the citizenship by investment programme, it was announced on Tuesday after President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Efforts by UN envoy Maria Angela Holguin for a viable solution of the Cyprus problem and a common future do not allow for Turkish demands for two states, head of ...

The shortage of nursing and midwifery staff in Cyprus must be tackled effectively, Health Minister Michalis Damianos said on Tuesday. He called on all young men and women, as well ...

Former Disy leader, MP Averof Neophytou, lashed out on Tuesday over a comment by former Disy President Nicos Anastasiades, who had called him “bitter”. “Those who are bitter are the ...

The contract between the state Natural Gas Infrastructure Company (Etyfa) and CPP-Metron Consortium Ltd (CMC Ltd) for the construction of the natural gas liquification plant at Vasiliko is heading towards ...

A 39-year-old man has been handed concurrent prison sentences for burning down the Paphos municipality Christmas tree in January. The Paphos district court passed sentences for torching and destroying the ...

A spontaneous two-hour work stoppage at Larnaca and Paphos airports on Tuesday morning over understaffing did not impact passengers at the airports, airports operator Hermes said. Airport service and traffic ...

A 53-year-old in Paphos was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday for burglary. The Paphos district court ruled the sentence would begin on April 11, 2024, the day the man was ...

A low intensity improvised explosive device caused extensive damage to a sliding glass door on Monday when it exploded outside the house in Mazotos. The explosion appears to have occurred ...