Johanna Pauls

Students who display delinquent behaviour on school buses will receive severe punishments, with parents held accountable if damages occur, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said after a meeting with Education Minister ...

Artificial intelligence, immersive solutions for disaster and emergency response and new technologies will be the key topics discussed at the international disasters and risk conference (IDRC) held in Nicosia from ...

The first compliance report following the Republic’s evaluation by Europe’s group of states against corruption (Greco) in October 2023 was presented by head Cyprus’ delegation to Greco Alexia Kalispera ...

Forestry department head Savvas Iezekiel on Thursday warned of possible “adverse and irreversible effects” of the government’s decision to transfer control of forest firefighting duties to the interior ministry. ...

A new metal shelter will be constructed as part of a project to revive the Paphos municipal vegetable market at the Pervola parking lot within the next three months, Paphos ...

Cyprus’ first patients ombudsman Marios Charalambides will begin his duties on Monday, it was announced on Tuesday after he met Health Minister Michael Damianos. “We will set up an entire ...

Public work projects totaling more than €1 billion were awarded to just three contractors – Cyfield, Iacovou Brothers and Cybarco – from 2015 to 2024, the audit service said in a report published on Tuesday. “...

The outage of government websites that left ministries without internet access on Tuesday morning was caused by a cable failure, not a cyberattack, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported. “[The ...

A young man wearing a yellow balaclava walks aggressively towards a group of activists from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) somewhere in the hills of Maroni in the Larnaca ...

The municipality of Strovolos will be working with neighbourhood social workers to establish a direct line of communication with school administrators, Strovolos mayor Stavros Stavrinidis said during a meeting with ...

A tender has been issued for the construction of a 9.4-kilometre section of the Nicosia highway between Anthoupoli and Anagyia, the transport ministry announced on Friday. The €95 million project is ...

Products with a reduced ecological footprint, labelled with the EU Ecolabel, are barely available in Cyprus, where their market share stands at just two per cent, according to a new ...

Mental health departments are operating at the limits of their capacity, with an overcrowding rate of 140 per cent and an urgent need for more staff, the mental health nursing branch ...

A total of 4.37 million non-EU citizens who fled Ukraine were under temporary protection status by the end of August, with Cyprus recording the third-highest ratio of Ukrainians within the EU — 25 ...

The recently introduced automated import system (AIS), which officially went live on September 29, continues to malfunction, causing significant delays in the clearance of goods, the head of the customs agents ...

The continuous upgrading of the National Guard and the strengthening of Cyprus’ deterrent power is a priority for the government, President Nikos Christodoulides said during the swearing-in ceremony of the ...

The signing of two projects concerning the construction of an outdoor Amphitheater in Avgorou and the creation of an outdoor sports area in Achna worth over € 4.5 million were announced by ...

The Turkish military invasion of Cyprus in 1974 constitutes a blatant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Cyprus, Greek diplomats said, responding to a statement made ...

A loaded pistol was found wrapped in nylon inside an empty plastic container in Droushia in the Paphos area on Wednesday afternoon, police said on Thursday. According to the police, ...

Limassol district court on Thursday ordered remanded in police custody a 43-year-old man from Nicosia, in connection with the firing of shots at an office building in Limassol earlier this ...

Marios Charalambides was appointed on Wednesday by the cabinet as the first patients’ ombudsman. In statements after the meeting, Health Minister Michalis Damianos spoke of a historic day for the ...

All signs point to an imminent agreement on the cost of living allowance (CoLa) between trade unions and employer organisations, with further meetings of Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou and Finance ...

Five vehicles were involved in a traffic crash early on Monday evening on Larnaca’s Eleftheria avenue, which left three drivers hospitalised. “Three of the five drivers of the vehicles ...

An investigation into whether offences were committed by officers during last Thursday’s protest for Gaza at the foreign ministry is to be launched by the independent authority for the ...