Johanna Pauls

EU member states, including Cyprus, are expected to draw up a common list of so-called safe countries of origin when they process asylum applications, the European Commission announced on Wednesday....

The governmental press office on Wednesday announced the official translation and unification of the Republic’s updated constitution into English. The publication will include “a comprehensive, consolidated text of the ...

The Nicosia criminal court has rescheduled the “trial within a trial” procedure of the German real estate agent accused of usurping Greek Cypriot properties in the north to May 2 after ...

The forestry department has issued a warning targeting illegal cutting of trees for the traditional lambradjia bonfires ahead of the upcoming Easter holidays. Emphasising that the felling of trees without ...

A 55-year-old man was arrested in the Larnaca district for the illegal possession of undeclared animal products, police said on Wednesday. According to the statement, Larnaca police stopped a car ...

A man has been arrested over the possession of “large amounts of class B drugs” in Ayios Nikolaos, the British bases announced on Tuesday. The bases’ police and the squad ...

Following concerns over illegal refreshment kiosks, government officials and ecological organisations revisited the Akamas area to determine whether there was compliance with their ruled termination on Monday. The tour was ...

Demolition work on the Larnaca building near which the rare ancient mosaics depicting the labours of Hercules were discovered in 2016 will start on Tuesday, Larnaca municipality announced on Monday. The ...

Equal and quality access to healthcare services are a fundamental human right for all residents, Health Minister Michael Damianos said in his speech on World Health Day on Monday. Damianos ...

The military exercise Argonaut begins on Monday and will continue until Thursday, the Defence Ministry announced. Argonaut will feature several search and rescue operations with simulations of distressed vessels in ...

A new initiative is testing the use of underwater drones and artificial reefs in marine conservation at the Ayia Napa marina. Set to launch at the end of the year, ...

Tucked away along the Dhekelia-Larnaca-Oroklini seafront, framed by residential houses on both sides, lies the Verki wetland. With ducks gliding across the water and cats wandering along the reeds, Verki ...

More and more incidents of animal abandonment are being reported despite ongoing efforts by volunteers and authorities, the office of environment and animal welfare commissioner Antonia Theodosiou said on world ...

As the term of Green Party president Giorgos Perdikis comes to an end, party members will vote for his successor in an internal election this Sunday. Two experienced politicians are ...

Bird trappings in the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) fell by five per cent last year, its police said on Friday, adding that since 2016 the number has fallen by 97 per cent. ...

The Union of Cyprus Journalists (UCJ) expressed its full support on Thursday to journalist Theodosia Apostolou after she received death threats following a post on her news website ‘Larnaka Online’. ...

Social welfare service workers staged a two-hour work stoppage on Thursday, from 11.30am till 1.30pm, to protest the “targeting of social welfare service workers” following the alleged abuse case of ...

A video of a mouflon giving birth in a forest went viral on Facebook on Thursday morning. Mouflons are usually hard to spot as they are not only shy but ...

A 26-year-old woman was remanded for eight days by Larnaca district court on Tuesday for the possession of 40kg of cannabis. The drugs were found in the luggage of the ...

A 23-year-old was attacked with bats by a group of people on Wednesday night in Limassol, police said on Wednesday. The young man was found injured at the scene and ...

A report on the controversial roadworks in the Akamas national forest park has been handed to the members of an ad hoc committee appointed to evaluate the work, which they ...

Fellow villagers had turned to the Social Welfare Services to report the alleged abuse of five children living in a livestock facilty Dromolaxia, Larnaca before the case was made public, ...

Fines issued based on the traffic camera system will be payable until April 30, the traffic police department announced on Monday. The deadline for paying outstanding fines, which began on January 8, ...

The creation of another 60 all-day-schools and an Easter allowance for low-income pensioners will be discussed at the Council of Ministers, President Nikos Christodoulides said ahead of the meeting on Monday ...