Nick Theodoulou

A school shooting at Kokkinotrimithia lower secondary school was prevented in November, MPs heard on Tuesday at parliament’s ad hoc committee on demographics and migration. The allegations were presented ...

Police have warned that they will carry out increased 24-hour alcohol and narco tests, particularly on Friday and Saturday night, to try and net drivers under the influence (DUI). The ...

Police are searching for 27-year-old Ahmad Rayed Al Zahri in connection with the attempted murder of another young man in Nicosia on Sunday afternoon. Police on Sunday arrested a 36-year-old ...

A brazen burglary resulted in the arrest of a 37-year-old suspect who allegedly broke into a house in broad daylight while the owner was in the garden entertaining family. The 68...

Political parties, the church, and commercial interests have significant influence over the media in the Republic, according to a Reporters Without Borders study which ranked Cyprus at 65 globally, a significant ...

The interior ministry held a consultation on Friday with the union of municipalities to try and untangle the local government reform package. After about a decade of haggling, parliament on ...

Police investigations into the fallout from the investment for passport scheme are at an advanced stage, top members of a four-hour meeting of the key overseers heard on Friday. There ...

Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides commemorated the fallen soldiers and those currently serving in the army as he marked Saint George’s day on Friday. In his speech at Lieutenant General ...

The first ferry link between Cyprus and Greece – specifically, from Limassol to Piraeus – is to be up and running on June 19, it was announced on Friday, with the trip lasting ...

An unnamed law firm being investigated as part of the investment for passports scandal has had its request to tackle a police search warrant quashed by the supreme court. According ...

Physics professor and former rector of the University of Cyprus Constantinos Christofides announced on Friday he will run for president in the upcoming 2023 elections, backed by New Wave – The Other ...

The labour ministry said on Friday that all general stores should remain closed on Sunday, May 1. The law states, the ministry said, that the shops – such as supermarkets, shopping malls ...

A number of Turkish Cypriots being deported from Turkey has caused alarm in the north, as political parties sought further clarification, while the ‘foreign ministry’ played it down. It was ...

An updated memorandum of understanding will be signed between Cyprus and Estonia on matters of digital governance and cybersecurity during President Nicos Anastasiades’ two-day visit. The efforts to bolster Cyprus’ ...

An 11-year-old has been transferred to a private Paphos hospital as he lost a finger in a firecracker explosion late on Wednesday evening. The minor also suffered serious injuries to ...

A bicommunal protest against the Akkuyu nuclear plant in Turkey was held in the buffer zone on Wednesday. Protesters gathered in Nicosia between the two checkpoints at the Home for ...

Drug squad officers on Wednesday arrested a 37-year-old and 76-year-old after a bust uncovered 1.5kg of cannabis and 24 marijuana plants. Members of the unit carried out a vehicle spot check ...

Plans to keep state hospitals open in the afternoons suffered a setback after nursing unions turned down the state health services (Okypy) pay offer. Nurses’ union Pasyno and the nurses’ ...

Three men were remanded for seven days by Famagusta district court over a series of charges primarily centered on stolen goods, items ranging from farm equipment to car parts. The ...

Turkish Cypriots were punished following the failure of the Annan Plan despite having voted in favour, the community’s leader Ersin Tatar said on the anniversary of the 2004 referendum. Tatar ...

No cases have so far been reported in Cyprus of the children’s hepatitis which has required some to have liver transplants, but a local expert has said that infections ...

In today’s episode, we hear that a fourth Covid-19 vaccine is available to the over 60s and some select groups, that Cypriots are getting better at recycling and of ...

The health ministry announced that 18 deaths attributed to Covid-19 occurred during the past week, while 6,115 people tested positive. The health ministry’s data covers the period from 15-21 April and ...

Cyprus is amongst the worst offenders in Europe for prison overcrowding as it ranks the fourth highest, while a report release on Thursday called on states with chronic overcrowding to ...