#pyla

A 29-year-old Greek Cypriot was on Monday remanded for five days in connection with a case of arson and attempted murder in August in Pyla. He is the seventh person ...

One of the suspects in the ongoing case of attempted murder and arson in Pyla was on Tuesday remanded for six days by the Nicosia district court over a different ...

A 17-year-old was remanded in custody for eight days on Sunday by Larnaca district court n connection with an attempted murder and arson in Pyla last month. He is the ...

Police on Friday night arrested 17-year-old in an ongoing case of attempted murder of a security guard and the arson of four cars belonging to a rental company in Pyla ...

The Larnaca district court on Thursday renewed the remand of two men, aged 44 and 27, for eight days in connection with the attempted murder of a security guard and the arson ...

A 22-year-old man was remanded in custody for eight days on Wednesday after being arrested in connection with the attempted murder of a security guard and setting four hire cars ...

Police are still searching for the hooded gunman who shot a 49-year-old man in Pyla just after midnight on Monday. Investigators are now examining CCTV footage, evidence from the crime ...

A 49-year-old man is in hospital after being shot in the leg outside his home in Pyla just after midnight on Monday. The shooting happened in front of the man’...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday called for construction on the planned road which would link the buffer zone village of Pyla with Arsos in the north to restart. ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday reaffirmed his support for a new crossing point to be opened in Mia Milia, on the eastern edge of Nicosia. Speaking after a ...

By Tom Cleaver and Iole Damaskinos The future of the planned road between Pyla and Arsos depends entirely on the United Nations, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said ...

Socio-economic inequalities in Cyprus risk “further estrangement” between both sides, the UN Security Council cautioned in its latest resolution renewing the mandate for the UN’s peacekeeping force (Unficyp) for ...

The road from Arsos to Pyla has 550 metres left to complete the works, the ‘mayor’ or Pergamos said on Tuesday. According to ‘mayor’ Bulent Bebek said that negotiations are underway ...

The UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) is closely monitoring works in Dherynia, which are being conducted by the ‘authorities’ in the north near the buffer zone, UN spokesperson Aleem Siddique said ...

Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday there is “no question” of the mutual understanding on construction in and around the village of Pyla being renegotiated. He said the mutual ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke on the phone with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday evening, discussing the appointment of a Cyprus envoy, the situation in Pyla and the proposed Cyprus ...

The UN secretary-general’s special representative and head of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp), Colin Stewart was set to hold discussions with both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish ...

By Fahri Zihni I expressed some concerns about the “statement of common understanding” and how it is being managed by Unficyp in relation to the building of a road between ...

Speaking at the 19th Economist summit in Nicosia, Colin Stewart, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative, said the understanding reached between the two sides on the issue of Pyla was ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that the Turkish Cypriot side had effectively “backed away” from the mutual understanding reached on construction works in the buffer zone village of Pyla. ...

Government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis said he expects construction works in Pyla to resume soon, “as provided for in the provisions of the agreement reached”. Letymbiotis was speaking after the cabinet ...

The UN secretary-general’s special representative and head of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp), Colin Stewart has expressed optimism regarding the recent developments in the Cyprus problem. Speaking ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday that the United Nations “requested a short pause” of construction work in the Pyla area. Speaking following a day of rumoured tensions, he said ...

Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations, responsible for peace operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, will visit the green line in Pyla and also occupied Famagusta on Thursday. On Wednesday Lacroix met ...