Rebekah Gregoriades

Mazotos residents will demand the complete scrapping of plans for a desalination plant in the area during a meeting with Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis on Wednesday. The Mazotos community council ...

Two police officers have been suspended pending separate investigations into offences allegedly committed on September 5 in Larnaca, police announced on Tuesday. The officers, aged 48 and 41, where suspended on the orders ...

Pupils in primary education in Cyprus reached 60,596 in 2024, averaging 11.5 pupils per teacher, according to data published on Tuesday by Eurostat. The pupil to teacher ratio in Cyprus was lower than ...

A new procedure for assigning police guards to political persons and state officers will be coming into effect this month, the justice ministry said on Tuesday. To appoint guards, the ...

One person was lightly injured on Monday morning in accident on the highway from Larnaca airport to Ayia Napa, under the Rizoelia roundabout. The injured driver was taken to Larnaca ...

Strengthening the primary sector is a matter of food security, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday evening, announcing at a dinner hosted for the Cyprus Grain Producers Organisation that the ...

A fire broke out in a flat in a three-storey building in Yeroskipou on Monday night, caused by an unattended pan on the cooker. The fire brigade said the fire ...

A fire broke out next to a house in Ayia Napa on Tuesday morning, destroying a prefabricated shed and damaging the owner’s vehicle that was parked outside, the building’...

Two individuals aged 24 and 23 were remanded on Tuesday for seven days pending investigations into the kidnapping of an 18-year-old. The suspects were arrested on Monday evening after a report that ...

Writer, director and publisher Vasos Ftochopoulos, who was associated with ‘Aegeon’ publications and owned Aegeon tavern in Nicosia – a meeting point for artists and intellectuals – has died at the age ...

Cyprus, Greece and Egypt are meeting on Tuesday in El Alamein, Egypt, to discuss critical geopolitical developments in the region and ways to further strengthen trilateral relations. President Nikos Christodoulides, ...

Eight people were arrested for offences including possession of drugs, illegal residence, burglary and theft, in the framework of overnight police operations to crack down on crime. The police also ...

Mainly fine weather is forecast for Tuesday with temperatures reaching 37C inland, 34C along the coast and 26C in the highest mountains. Winds will be a northeast to southeast gentle ...

The parents’ associations of Ypsonas public schools made a formal complaint to the labour inspection department over construction works at schools and on Monday threatened action in collaboration with schools ...

Trade union SEK announced a 24-hour strike for September 17, following Monday’s joint labour committee meeting that discussed the renewal of the collective agreement for government hourly workers covering the ...

The European Court of Human Rights has sent a list of questions to the parties involved in the dismissal of former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides in the context of his appeal ...

Pension reforms aimed to come into effect on January 1, 2027, should include safety valves to ride out crises, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Monday, following a labour advisory body meeting, ...

Parents of children up to the age of five can apply from Monday for subsidies covering nursery school fees and meals for the 2026-2027 school year, the deputy welfare ministry ...

Every day we see items that eventually become recognisable images – in tourist shops, on postage stamps, on official logos – yet their origins elude us. A trip to the Cyprus Museum ...

Demand for student housing is outstripping supply, with monthly rents for one-bedroom flats ranging from €600 to as much as €1,500, chairman of the Council for the Registration of Real Estate Agents ...

A €245,000 contract was signed on Thursday for the construction of a new environmental centre at Larnaca’s salt lakes, within the Natura 2000 protected area. The project, co-funded by the EU ...

The police are investigating a new case of cryptocurrency investment fraud following a complaint from a 53-year-old in Nicosia, the authorities announced on Friday. The man filed a complaint with ...

A car parked in an open garage, outside the house of the 75-year-old owner, in Peristerona, Nicosia, caught fire at 3.15am on Friday. The 75-year-old woman put the fire out ...

Friday starts off mainly clear, with clouds in the afternoon bringing scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms with possible hailstones, mainly in the mountains, inland and to the east. Winds will ...