Rebekah Gregoriades

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will be visiting Cyprus on Thursday, with talks on the island focusing on bilateral relations, the humanitarian situation in Gaza and developments in the West Bank ...

UN envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin will be arriving on the island on Thursday for meetings with President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, before holding a ...

A new yellow warning is in place for Thursday, as areas with thunderstorms are expected to be hit by hail and gale force winds. The warning is valid from 9am ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday he was “deeply saddened by the tragic train collision in Spain”. In a post on X, Christodoulides extended his “profound condolences to the families ...

A 65-year-old man was hospitalised in serious condition on Wednesday after losing control of his vehicle on the Polis Chrysochous-Argaka road, hitting a tree and stopping on the safety barrier. ...

The cabinet approved an interior ministry proposal on Tuesday for new regulations on issuing building permits, with the aim of simplifying and modernising procedures. The regulations will be sent to ...

An explosion occurred at a tavern in Pyrgos, Limassol, in the early hours of Wednesday and the police have cordoned off the area pending investigations. The explosion happened at ‘Kostas ...

A food delivery driver was attacked in the early hours of Wednesday in Limassol. The 22-year-old driver told the police that at around 3am, when riding a bicycle on Ayia ...

Eight people were arrested during overnight police operations for car arson, illegal residence, drink driving, illegal possession of property and circulation of false documents. The police pulled over vehicles and ...

A 22-year-old was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the fire in a vehicle on October 23 in Frenaros. The police said the man was taken before the Famagusta district court, ...

The police warned motorists on Wednesday morning that heavy rainfall in the area of Kofinou is affecting visibility. In a press release, the police urged drivers to be particularly careful, ...

Low barometric pressure centred in the Aegean is moving southeast and affecting Cyprus, bringing local showers and isolated thunderstorms with hail across the island on Wednesday. The meteorological service issued ...

Growth in Cyprus remains higher than the European average, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday, addressing the annual innovation and research awards organised by employers’ federation OEV and the Research ...

The honorary consulate of the Republic of Moldova in Nicosia was officially inaugurated on Monday evening, with Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos saying there was considerable potential to expand the institutional ...

The Turkish-Libyan memorandum “remains null and void, contrary to international law and cannot serve as a lawful basis for maritime delimitation or produce legal consequences for third states”, Greek Foreign ...

A Byzantine church temple and a clay-processing tank were uncovered during excavations at Kofinou-Ayios Heraklios and Menoyia-Limnes, in the Larnaca district. “The excavation uncovered a near-complete floor made of large ...

The district self-government organisations (EOA) announced on Monday they have sent a joint letter to President Nikos Christodoulides, asking to be included in plans for development projects from 2028 till 2034. In ...

A platform allowing for the exchange of information among services concerning domestic violence incidents will be up and running by the end of the year, chairman of the House human ...

By Rebekah Gregoriades Stylianos Constantinou, who took his own life in 2019 when he was 14, “was the child who grew sadder as the school day came to a close”, special education ...

Staff at the state health services (Okypy) will be staging a 48-hour strike on November 10 and 11 to protest the non-implementation of provisions included in their collective agreement that ended in 2025 – ...

The whole Avakoum monastery scandal was conjured to cover up an unpaid loan Tamasos Bishop Isaias took from the monastery and only partially paid back, defence lawyer Kostis Efstathiou argued ...

Agriculture Minister Christos Senekis made an on-site inspection of the landslides threatening the community of Pissouri on Friday, with local authorities stressing the need to find an immediate solution as ...

The transport ministry is planning to install 94 new fast charging points for electric vehicles over the next couple of years, at a total cost of €10 million, Transport Minister Evie Tsolaki ...

Twenty-two petrol stations had failed to pass on the full reduction in heating fuel prices by noon on Friday, despite a cut in the tax on heating fuel coming into ...