Rebekah Gregoriades

A fire in Aradippou, Larnaca, on Tuesday morning burned a small area of wild vegetation along the highway near Rizoelia roundabout. The fire started at 11.27am and was put out ...

A 33-year-old who was arrested on Monday in connection with the possession of drugs was taken before Nicosia district court on Tuesday, which ordered he remain in custody for eight ...

An abandoned building on Omonia Avenue in Limassol, at the junction with Vasileos Pavlou street, is being demolished, with works starting on Monday and lasting till Thursday. The Limassol municipality ...

A driver became trapped in his vehicle after an accident involving two cars in Lakatamia, Nicosia, on Sunday evening and was released by a rescue team, the fire brigade announced ...

A fire which broke out near Pissouri on Sunday was fully extinguished at 7.05pm, while firefighters remained in the area overnight to prevent it reigniting, the fire brigade announced on ...

Clouds, rain and thunderstorms can be expected in the mountains and inland on Monday, as well as to the southeast, with possible hail in storm areas. Temperatures will reach 34C ...

Sewage is overflowing into the sea at Moni as we speak, even as plans go ahead for a desalination plant in neighbouring Monagroulli, which will be removing the salt from ...

Tasos Markou was a major when he disappeared during the second phase of the Turkish invasion in Mia Milia in 1974, but for his son, who was six years old at ...

Customs agents confiscated 245kg of bovine hides and offal on Wednesday evening, as well as the transport vehicle, during a routine check at Ayios Dhometios crossing point. The customs department ...

Court summer holidays in Cyprus are a “very good” system that serves several purposes, Nicosia bar association chairman Stefanos Skordis said on Thursday. Skordis said similar arrangements were in place ...

Media website ink.com has called on police union Isotita to explain who exactly has been “paying” the site to post information as the trade union had claimed, otherwise the ...

An Israeli caught on Wednesday with duty free tobacco crossing into the south at Dherynia in a Turkish Cypriot taxi is the latest incident in what the customs department described ...

Larnaca is continuing its anti-flood works, with the project in the area of Kamares now ahead of schedule, the city’s district self-government organisation (EOA) said on Thursday. Works on ...

The forestry department renewed calls on Thursday ahead of the mid-August holiday for extreme caution due to the high risk of fires. As people in Cyprus usually take their summer ...

The education ministry has launched a project to install cold water dispensers in schools across the island, a process which began last year with a tender for 25 schools and will ...

A fire in Orounta, Nicosia, that started in the early hours of Thursday, has been contained and efforts are under way to put it out completely. The fire brigade said ...

Ten people were arrested in overnight police operations for various offences, including the illegal possession of drugs, causing a disturbance and failing to appear in court. The police said 505 vehicles ...

A company car was lightly damaged in a fire that started just after midnight in Limassol. The police said the car was parked outside the residence of a 62-year-old and ...

Sunny and hot weather will be prevailing across the island on Thursday, however clouds forming locally around noon are expected to yield isolated showers and thunderstorms, mainly over the mountains. ...

The new parliament that emerged from May’s elections has a demanding legislative agenda ahead of it when the session reopens at the beginning of September, with important bills and ...

Welfare benefit increases will be paid retroactively to beneficiaries in the last quarter of 2026, without any action needed on their behalf, the deputy welfare ministry announced on Wednesday. The increases ...

A group of young picnickers was caught lighting charcoal on Sunday in Akamas and was reprimanded by the forestry department, while in a separate case a man in Koutrafas is ...

Both Cypriots and foreigners are being released from prison on Wednesday on presidential pardon ahead of the August 15 religious holiday of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in an effort ...

Safety in aerial firefighting missions should be the top priority and continuously improved, aviation expert Chrysanthos Hadjichrysanthou said following a recent firefighting helicopter accident in Greece in which two people ...