Rebekah Gregoriades

A red alert for forest fires has been issued by the Forestry Department for Tuesday. Lighting fires without permission is an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to ten ...

The Palestinian embassy in Nicosia has demanded emergency international intervention to stop atrocities against the Palestinians, the continuation of which is “proof of the failure of the international community” to ...

The Supreme Court ordered that a Syrian, in custody for the past 18 months pending his deportation for reasons of national security, be released. In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court ...

The 64-officer mission set to fly to Greece in the early hours of Tuesday has been called off. Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said the Greek government has changed its request ...

The way the Great Sea Interconnector is being promoted “bears serious risks and many problems,” associations affiliated with the Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation (Oev) related to energy matters have ...

Producers and supermarkets have been found to be charging “unreasonably high prices” for fruit and vegetables, the commerce ministry said. The ministry’s Consumer Protection Service carried out checks and ...

A 41-year-old was sentenced to 11 years in prison for possession of 7.5kg of cannabis. Police said the sentence was passed on Tuesday. The 41-year-old had been arrested in March in ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with two cases of theft and causing malicious damage to property. The police said the man appears to be involved in two ...

Seasonal low pressure is affecting the area, with the weather remaining mainly fine on Thursday and temperatures not expected to exceed 38C inland. Temperatures along the coast will range from 31...

Two girls, aged 15 and 16, are suspected of stealing a bag from a sunbed on a Larnaca beach on Wednesday. A complaint was received by the police at 1pm on Wednesday ...

The first phase of the Nicosia highway ring road was delivered on Thursday at noon, allowing traffic to flow freely between western Nicosia and the cities of Larnaca and Limassol, ...

Thursday marks 60 years since the bombing of Tillyria in 1964 when, from August 7 to 9, Turkish air forces dropped napalm bombs on villages in the area. President of the community council of ...

The House plenary will be convening in an emergency session on Thursday, after the president referred a law back to parliament, along with three others to the Supreme Constitutional Court. ...

Eight years after they were first mooted, courses at the University of Cyprus in languages other than Greek have proven divisive as the education ministry works to tie up loose ...

Green Dot, which has collected PMD and paper from homes since 2006, said on Tuesday it has done everything it should after a fire destroyed the processing plant it used and ...

Child allowance is increased by 5 per cent and half the allowance will still be given for children of large families who are now university students. With the government proposals now ...

Memorial services for the deaths of Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomou who were both killed days apart 28 years ago in August 1996 by Turkish forces in the Dherynia buffer zone will ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will attend an event at Kokkina on Thursday to mark 60 years since the bombing of Tylliria in 1964 when, from August 7 to 9, Turkish air forces dropped ...

Four people were arrested in Famagusta district on Monday night, three in relation to a drug case and one for residing illegally in Cyprus. Famagusta police spokesman Steve Theodoulou said ...

Cypriot athlete Olivia Fotopoulou finished 8th in the Paris Olympics 200m semifinals. Competing in heat 3, Fotopoulou, finished with a time of 22.98 seconds.

Marilena Makri completed the Paris Olympics ranking 30th with 195 points. Things didn’t go as planned for the 21-year-old sailor. Strong winds and her light weight did not help. “The ...

The post-mortem on the body of the seven-year-old girl who died after a pool incident at a hotel in Protaras will he carried out on Tuesday. Police said the post-mortem ...

Cypriot Olympic sailor Pavlos Kontides is throwing himself into the medal race, where points count double, at the Paris Olympics, ready to take any opportunity to aim for the gold ...

Cypriot gymnast Marios Georgiou, who finished sixth in the men’s horizontal bar final at the Paris Olympics, said he was “very satisfied” with his performance, having achieved one of ...