Tenders invited as improvement to psychiatric hospital take step towards reality
Tenders were invited on Friday for the construction of a new mental health centre in Nicosia, part of the government’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, the...
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Public advised not to come in contact with Athalassa park lake water
The forestry department on Thursday urged the public to avoid coming into contact with the water from the lake in the Athalassa national forest park...
Identification procedures to identify Athalassa missing remains to begin soon
Procedures to identify the remains of 11 Cypriots, excavated last year in the area where they have been buried since the 1974 Turkish invasion, next...
Some remains found of those buried at psychiatric hospital in 1974
Investigators have recovered remains believed to be those of people killed when the Turkish air force bombed the psychiatric hospital in Nicosia in 1974 and were...
Excavations begin to recover missing persons remains near Nicosia hospital
By Angelos Anastasiou Excavation work to retrieve the remains of 31 victims of a bomb dropped during the first leg of the invasion of the...
Athalassa missing persons remains to be exhumed
Presidential commissioner for human rights Photis Photiou will submit a proposal as soon as possible to exhume the remains of people listed as missing that...
Women jailed after crime spree ends in fire at former mother-in-law’s house
A 40-year-old woman was handed a four-year jail term by the Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to 14 counts of arson, assault,...
Nurses call two-hour stoppage at Athalassa after convict injures three staff members
Nurses belonging to the public sector union Pasydy will hold a two-hour work stoppage on Thursday to protest against an incident involving a convict at...
Naked man arrested at Limassol post office, taken to Athalassa
Authorities arrested a 42-year-old man on Tuesday who had taken his clothes off at the central post office of Limassol. According to reports, the man...
Remand for suspected car scammer
Limassol district court on Thursday remanded in custody for six days a 26-year-old man suspected of running a scam, duping people into handing him down-payments...
Suspect arrested in car scam worth €143,000
Limassol police on Wednesday arrested a 26-year-old man suspected of deceiving a number of people into giving him money for luxury cars that were supposedly...
Paphos attack suspect admitted to psychiatric hospital
A 24-year-old man who allegedly beat and seriously injured a Nepalese man, 30, at a bus stop in Statos in Paphos on Saturday morning has...
Remanded for attempting to kidnap child (Updated)
By Constantinos Psillides THE 29-YEAR-OLD who attempted to kidnap a three-year-old boy near a café at the Phaneromeni area in Nicosia was remanded in custody...
Woman attacks welfare officers
A 32-year-old woman with suspected mental issues was arrested on Tuesday, after threatening two employees of the Larnaca Welfare office with an airgun, according to...
Paralimni man admitted to Athalassa after shots fired
A 30-year-old man from Paralimni was admitted to the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia on Thursday after a mini-siege at his home ended with shots...
Changes underway at central prisons, probe to be concluded soon – minister
By Peter Stevenson Investigations into recent incidents at the central prisons will be concluded as soon as possible so that those found responsible can be...
Probe into third suicide this year at Nicosia prison
By Peter Stevenson JUSTICE Minister Ionas Nicolaou has ordered a criminal and disciplinary investigation into this year’s third suicide at the Central Prisons in Nicosia,...