Rebekah Gregoriades

Citing the risk of absconding, a court decided on Wednesday that Turkish-Israeli businessman Simon Aykut will be held until his trial and dismissed a request by his lawyers that he ...

An 18-year-old was arrested on Tuesday for the possession and distribution of child pornography. Police began investigating the case after a message from Europol that an internet user had uploaded 17 ...

Unaccompanied children, who were forced to leave the country in 1974 as a result of the Turkish invasion, is a repercussion that has not received the attention it deserved, President Nikos ...

Larnaca’s criminal court sentenced a 30-year-old to 11 years in prison for illegally importing 15.6 kilos of cannabis. The court heard that the 30-year-old had been arrested on July 6 on arrival ...

Burglars on Tuesday got away with €820,000-worth of property from an apartment along the coast in Limassol. Police said a foreigner reported that around dawn on Tuesday burglars broke into ...

Cyprus recorded the lowest standardised death rates for suicide with 2.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, according to data released by Eurostat, marking the World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10. In 2021, there were 47,346 ...

The threat of drought should be tackled on a European level, through innovation, technology, investments, political will and cooperation, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou told an informal council meeting in Budapest. ...

A marathon meeting on the Cyprus-Greece electricity interconnector that continued into the evening on Tuesday, was “a good decision”, according to President Nikos Christodoulides, who said discussions would be continued. ...

Excavations in the north, at Pente Mili in Karavas, are underway to find and exhume the bodies of the first people who died during the 1974 Turkish invasion – an estimated 40 to 70 ...

Larnaca will start works to reconstruct the city centre’s roads and squares in mid-October, at a cost of €7 million, it announced on Tuesday. Works are expected to last a ...

An expert seems to have tilted the scales in the ongoing Osiou Avakoum monastery scandal, when he testified in church court on Tuesday that videos showing monks in actions inconsistent ...

Thorny issues, such as revenue from building permits and the responsibility for dangerous buildings, dominated Monday’s meeting between Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou and president of the Union of Municipalities ...

The new primary school year began on Monday for 51,590 students and 5,044 teachers in 329 public schools. A total of 274 nursery schools also opened their doors across Cyprus for 13,117 toddlers and preschoolers ...

A 29-year-old was arrested on Monday evening in connection with a homophobic attack at the weekend. The attack, outside a nightclub in Limassol on Saturday night, was allegedly carried out ...

Foul play in the case of a dead infant found at a Nicosia cemetery has been ruled out, police sources said on Monday. Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported a woman ...

A 96-year-old, permanent resident of London, was killed in a fatal accident in Larnaca on Sunday, police announced on Monday. The accident happened at 8.10pm on Sunday on the motorway ...

A 19-year-old has been arrested in Paphos for conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, hunting in a restricted area, transporting an assembled hunting rifle and failing to comply with a game ...

A decision to allow girls into the national guard when they graduate secondary school on a voluntary basis is in its final stages, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Monday. “...

Works to remove a total of 130 speed bumps and raised crossings are underway, with some being left for 2025 and others further down the line as part of reconstruction works. Senior ...

A second person, aged 25, has been arrested in connection with the robbing of a kiosk in Nicosia on August 29. A 24-year-old is already in custody for the same case. He ...

The future National Guard officers, studying at the higher military schools in Greece, have chosen an arduous but honourable path, Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas said on Friday. Addressing their swearing-in ...

The Audit Office has lashed out at the government, saying that Wednesday’s decision to turn the service into an audit council was an effort to “manipulate” it and “gag ...

The Supreme Court has unanimously thrown out a law on police promotions, referred by President Nikos Christodoulides, deeming it unconstitutional, as it violates the principle of equality. The law was ...

Cypriot Paralympic swimmer Karolina Pelendritou easily qualified for the SB11 category 100m breaststroke final on Thursday, at the Paris 2024 Paralympics. In the qualifying race at La Défense Arena, Karolina ...