Rebekah Gregoriades

Even for those who fully understand the minutiae of last year’s local government reform, the ongoing dispute over the role of deputy mayors is bewildering and has become bogged ...

A bill providing for drafting policies with respect to the impact they can have on gender is currently being promoted, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday evening, addressing an event ...

Deputy chief of police Panikos Stavrou has ordered an administrative investigation into a complaint filed by a mother that her infant had been abused at a daycare centre in Limassol ...

Cooperation between Cyprus and the US sends a strong message to all countries in the region and beyond, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, during a meeting with Commander of ...

USS Mount Whitney, the flagship of the US 6th Fleet, which docked at Larnaca on Thursday, served as a platform on Friday to highlight Cyprus’ role in the eastern Mediterranean ...

Works to upgrade and extend the emergency department at the Nicosia general hospital will begin on Monday, the state health services organisation (Okypy) said. In a statement on Friday, Okypy ...

The United Kingdom’s minister of state for Europe Stephen Doughty had “very constructive meetings” on Friday in Nicosia, “particularly discussing issues relating to our bilateral relationship, the geopolitical circumstances ...

An easyJet plane made an emergency landing at Larnaca airport on Thursday night after a passenger felt unwell. The company apologised to the other passengers and flight EZY2252 diverted to ...

Leaders of parliamentary parties, with the exception of Elam, will accompany President Nikos Christodoulides to Geneva for the enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, scheduled for March 17 and 18. Parliamentary parties ...

Cyprus has been lobbying for stronger EU defence capabilities and President Nikos Christodoulides hopes that Thursday’s EU summit in Brussels will lead to concrete decisions. Speaking on arrival at ...

Elections for the position of Alassa community leader will be repeated on March 30, following legal challenges that led to the nullification of Savvas Savva’s election last year, the interior ...

The interior ministry will conduct a thorough review of the role of deputy mayors, who have voiced concerns over a lack of clear responsibilities and direction, permanent secretary Elikkos Elia ...

Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (Admie), the project promoter for the Great Sea Interconnector, has suspended payments to French company Nexans responsible for manufacturing and installing the submarine cable ...

The Cypriot government has dismissed the board of governors of the English School following allegations that senior members pressured the headteacher to admit a student who failed entrance exams. The ...

A country’s index of civilisation is found in the way its people treat animals, Disy MP Savia Orphanidou said on Wednesday after a House environment committee meeting that discussed ...

King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima of The Netherlands on Wednesday visited the neolithic settlement of Choirokoitia, an Unesco world heritage monument in Larnaca district, occupied from the 7th to ...

A civil servant, who had been off work for years due to health issues, returned to work on Wednesday and assaulted his supervisor. Paphos police are investigating malicious damage, assault ...

A revised bill on parental custody legislation was discussed at the House legal committee on Wednesday, with parents saying they are currently living a nightmare over the right to see ...

Yeroskipou’s derelict Olympic specification swimming pool, which cost €7 million and remains closed since May 2022, is in the process of getting a €360,000 revamp. The call for tenders closed on February 28 ...

Ukraine and EU defence will be dominating Thursday’s European Council in Brussels, with the online participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. President Nikos Christodoulides will be flying to Brussels ...

Björn works for an unappreciative law firm and his clients are equally ungrateful mafia bosses. As his family life goes down the drain, he can either wave it goodbye ...

Decisions regarding the Paphos-Polis Chrysochous motorway were the best possible solution, the Public Works Department (PWD) said on Thursday, adding that it would not engage in further discussions with former ...

Two additional traffic cameras have been installed in Limassol and will begin operating on March 4, police announced in a Facebook post. The cameras have been placed at the traffic lights ...

Cyprus failed in its legal duty to investigate a British woman’s allegation in 2019 that she had been gang-raped by Israeli tourists on the holiday island, the European Court of ...