Rebekah Gregoriades

Mainly fine weather is forecast for Saturday, with clouds forming locally at times. Winds will be northeast to southeast, to become variable in the afternoon, a gentle to moderate breeze ...

A sailing boat from Israel reported missing was found during a Cyprus search and rescue operation mobilised the police, the army and the British bases. The crew members are well. ...

Police are investigating attempted murder after a 22-year-old was heavily wounded in a stabbing at a Limassol bar. A 27-year-old, named by the police as Mehmet Nikola Mehmet, born on ...

Pharmacists at Limassol General Hospital will stage a 48-hour strike on October 21 and 22 to protest having worked without a head pharmacist for the past four months. During the strike, employees ...

The defence of Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut put forward three pre-trial appeals on Friday, questioning the jurisdiction of the criminal court to try the case and the conditions ...

An attempted cyberattack on Hermes Airports’ website was averted on Friday, according to communications director Maria Kouroupi, who assured that airport operations were not affected. Kouroupi told the Cyprus News ...

The contractor responsible for building the new motorway linking Paphos and Polis Chrysochous has requested an additional €32,329,800 to complete phase one of the project by April 29, 2027 – three years later than ...

If it wasn’t for the charismatic Haris Alexiou playing the grandmother in Greek drama series Maestro in Blue, I may not have watched the first season to the end, ...

The installation of wave breakers to protect Paphos’ seafront will be discussed in early November during a meeting between the transport ministry and local municipalities to finalise provisions for funding, ...

Draft amendments to the criminal code of the Republic of Cyprus, concerning the criminalisation of fake news, should not be pursued in their current form, the Organisation for Security and ...

Almost three tonnes of medicines and consumables have been gathered for Lebanon and the dispatch of aid to Beirut will begin on Friday, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The ...

A German real estate agent, charged with the usurpation of Greek Cypriot property in the north, on Thursday denied any involvement in all 44 charges she is facing. The German woman ...

A rescue operation was launched on Thursday at 10.42am when a diver was reported to be presenting mild symptoms of decompression sickness. The diving accident happened in the Zinovia shipwreck ...

Nicosia laboratory Pedieos IVF Centre, which also serves Aphrodite Egg Bank, has been awarded prestigious accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP), recognised as the global gold standard for ...

Cyprus recorded the second-best child poverty rates in the EU for 2023, slightly lower than first-place Slovenia, Deputy Welfare Minister Marilena Evangelou said on Thursday. Addressing a conference in Nicosia on ...

All women born in 2002 and all men born in 1970, citizens of the Republic living in the south, are called to join the Civil Defence by registering at their local Civil ...

Cyprus police and the British bases have completed a week-long training course on addressing a hostage crisis, aimed at making Cyprus safer. The Cyprus police hostage negotiators’ refresher training took ...

Fees and entrance criteria for foreign language undergraduate programmes to be offered in public universities remain a thorny issue in a new updated bill presented by Education Minister Athena Michaelidou. ...

Over 2,000 teachers have been trained this year to save lives, who will in turn pass on the knowledge to their students, Health Minister Michalis Damianos said on Wednesday. Speaking at ...

Migration should be handled centrally by the EU, while all member states should be supported and cooperate so they are ready to address this huge issue, Deputy Minister for Migration ...

Three children have been denied access to education and personalised assistance to overcome their emotional problems and reintegrate into neighbourhood schools because of the commotion caused by parents and teachers ...

If consensus is not reached on the reduction of pensions for those retiring before the age of 63 within six months, the issue will be postponed till after the reform of ...

Three in five people in the north want a solution to the Cyprus problem, a survey conducted by the migration, identity and rights studies centre (CMIRS) in September found. The ...

The population in 250 communities in the south has more than halved since the 1973 census, according to new environmental NGO Elders Creating Green Communities. The NGO, set up in September, said ...