Eleni Panayiotou

Deputy Auditor-General Kyriacos Kyriacou has rejected suggestions that he is unwilling to work or is responsible for his limited involvement in the Audit Office, accusing former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides of ...

UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin, said on Monday she remained optimistic about efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem following a meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou voiced her support for Radiomarathon 2026 on Monday, as the annual charity campaign got underway. In a post on Instagram, Demetriou said she was once again supporting ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said he was ready to meet UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Maria Angela Holguin and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman as early as Monday afternoon or Tuesday, ...

Police are investigating an incident involving dangerous driving at the Ayios Athanasios roundabout in Limassol after a video circulating on social media showed a car performing drifting manoeuvres near pedestrians ...

George Ioannou officially took over as director of the central prisons on Monday, following a handover ceremony at the prisons department. Ioannou, a retired military officer and former military attaché ...

Construction workers’ unions SEK, PEO and DEOK have warned of industrial action over the labour ministry’s decision to renew employment permits for third-country nationals working for contractors and subcontractors ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel has said that the Turkish Cypriot side and Turkey will continue exploration and energy activities in the Eastern Mediterranean based on what he described ...

A fire that broke out at a cafe in Vrysoulles, Famagusta district, in the early hours of Monday caused extensive damage to the premises and its contents. According to the ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris has congratulated members of the Limassol police department, particularly investigators from the Limassol Criminal Investigation Department (CID), for their “methodical approach, persistence and professionalism” in investigating ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas leaves for Paris on Monday, where he is scheduled to meet French Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans Catherine Vautrin, following an official invitation. According ...

Workers employed in the Education Ministry’s support programmes are beginning an indefinite strike on Monday, November 2, over the government’s failure to implement legislation governing their employment. In a ...

On Monday, increased mid-level and high cloud will be observed at intervals. Winds will be northeasterly to southeasterly, light to moderate, at 3 to 4 Beaufort, while the sea will be calm ...

Closer cooperation between Cyprus and Israel should strengthen the Republic’s security and economic independence without limiting its foreign policy or creating new dependencies, Israeli strategic analyst Shay Gal has ...

The Audit Office plans to introduce artificial intelligence to accelerate its work, identify potential irregularities and free up auditors to conduct more on-site inspections, auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou said on Friday. ...

Parliamentary staff have expressed strong dissatisfaction over the behaviour of certain MPs, both inside parliament and through public statements and social media posts, warning that disparaging remarks are undermining their ...

A bill introducing a new teacher appointment system is expected to be submitted to parliament by late November or early December, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday. Speaking to ...

Nurses’ trade unions have insisted that collective labour agreements protecting the rights and benefits of both existing and future nursing staff, including those recruited from abroad, are non-negotiable. In a ...

A compensation proposal for professional fishermen in Zygi, who have faced restrictions on access to fishing grounds, is in the final stages of assessment and is expected to be presented ...

The overall picture regarding the provision of meals to conscripts serving in the National Guard is satisfactory, members of the House audit committee said on Thursday during a discussion of ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Thursday approved amendments to charges against eight defendants in the central prisons documents case, increasing the number of digital items allegedly stolen from 421 to 551, while ...

Cyprus recorded a preschool education participation rate of 89.2 per cent in 2024 among children aged three to the start of compulsory primary education, according to figures published by Eurostat on Thursday. ...

Only 17.9 per cent of secondary education students in Cyprus are enrolled in vocational education programmes, compared with an EU average of 52.4 per cent, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday, highlighting ...

The police investigation into a TikTok livestream in which a child with Down syndrome was encouraged to perform indecent acts has been completed, with the case file now before the ...