#Famagusta

Two women were hospitalised after inhaling smoke from a fire that broke out early this morning in a ground-floor hotel staff accommodation in the Famagusta district. The blaze began around 1.40...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Friday met with representatives of the municipalities of Famagusta, Ayia Napa, and Paralimni-Deryneia to discuss key issues raised by local communities. “The reason for the ...

The Famagusta municipality on Friday said it “regretted” the Turkish Cypriot authorities’ decision to not allow Kataklysmos celebrations to take place in the town. “This year’s Kataklysmos celebrations will ...

Police on Thursday are investigating a 65-year-old man who handed himself in after admitting to stabbing a 50-year-old man. He was arrested on suspicion of acts intended to cause actual ...

The three suspects arrested in connection with the illegal slaughter of a kangaroo in Famagusta earlier this month are set to appear in court on May 23, police said on Friday. “...

Two separate kitchen fires that broke out in Nicosia and Famagusta, resulting in two people being taken to hospital, were reported on Thursday. According to the fire service, the first ...

A new initiative to manage the growing number of stray dogs in Famagusta has taken a step forward. The commissioner for the environment and animal welfare, Antonia Theodosiou, met with ...

Applications for matters of water supply will now be processed only online, the Famagusta district local government organisation (EOA), announced on Wednesday. In its announcement, EOA said the move comes ...

A man appeared in court in Famagusta on Friday accused of having attempted to import 4,200 lots of what the court described as “sexual power enhancing gel” into the north. The ...

More than 3,000 costumed revelers took part, and around 25,000 spectators lined the streets of Paralimni on Sunday for the grand carnival parade, marking the peak of this year’s Famagusta carnival. ...

Farmers in Larnaca and Famagusta are struggling to protect their crops from the frost of the past few days, watering them overnight, in a last-ditch effort to save potatoes, vegetables, ...

A 43-year-old wanted man for an investigated car theft case in Paralimni is being held in custody on Friday. The suspect was located and arrested by court warrant shortly after 3.30...

Green party leader Giorgos Perdikis on Thursday sent a strongly worded letter to Famagusta district governor Yiannis Karousos after it was alleged that district government employees uprooted palm trees from ...

A new sports complex was opened at Famagusta’s Turk Maarif Koleji (TMK) school in honour of the 24 children who attended the school who died during the earthquakes which hit ...

Restoration is to begin in the early part of the new year at Famagusta’s St George of the Latins church, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Ali Tuncay ...

The Famagusta district governor warned that his district office (EOA) would return to filing building permits on paper, due to the inefficiency of the online system on Friday. The deputy ...

The Limassol and Famagusta fire services responded to 16 weather-related incidents over the weekend, fire service spokesman Andreas Kettis reported on X on Monday. Limassol fire stations responded to eight incidents, ...

The state doctors’ union (Pasyki) raised concerns on Thursday over a shortage of doctors in the A&E department of the Famagusta general hospital, warning that the issue could ...

Television series Famagusta’s director Andreas Georgiou said the message the series was intended to convey was “to love each other”. In a post to his Instagram story in Greek, ...

It seems the Turkish Cypriot leadership enjoys presenting itself as the wronged and unfairly treated side in Cyprus. This sentiment was fueled a couple of a weeks ago by the ...

The streaming platform Netflix’s decision to air the series Famagusta led to a spat between Turkey and Greece on Monday, with high-ranking government figures from both countries expressing their ...

A 23-year-old Famagusta resident was arrested in a case of illegal drug possession on Sunday. The Famagusta drug squad secured a warrant to search the man’s apartment in the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar was outraged on Sunday over a decision of streaming service Netflix to show the series ‘Famagusta’. The series covers what happened in the summer of 1974 ...

Recently elected governor Yiannis Karousos has announced plans to transform the Famagusta district self-governance organisation (Eoa) into “the most efficient licensing authority in Cyprus”, vowing to minimise the waiting time ...