Rebekah Gregoriades

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 ...

Two people, aged 48 and 36, were arrested on Wednesday, after police, acting on a tipoff, stopped two vehicles for investigations, which revealed about half a kilo of cocaine. Police said the ...

An increase in bird trapping has been recorded, highlighting the failure of the police anti-poaching unit to tackle organised trapping groups, BirdLife Cyprus said in its autumn 2024 trapping report. “Some 620,000 ...

The committee to exclude economic operators from public procurement procedures has been inactive since August, when two of its three members resigned, a former member told the House ethics committee ...

Police cautioned the public on Wednesday over scammers posing as Revolut representatives calling individuals and threatening to disconnect their accounts if they did not disclose their bank details during the ...

A new section on unfair commercial practices has been added to the Agriculture Department’s website, containing information on agricultural products and allowing interested parties to file a complaint. By ...

A bill allowing former drug users to be allowed to renew their professional driving licences was presented on Wednesday to the House legal committee by Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis, who ...

The Cyprus problem was the focus of a telephone conversation on Wednesday between the foreign ministers of Greece and Cyprus, Giorgos Gerapetritis and Constantinos Kombos respectively. Cyprus’ foreign ministry said ...

Marios Georgiou was pronounced Male Gymnast of the Year in a vote organised by European Gymnastics. President Nikos Christodoulides congratulated Georgiou in a written statement on Wednesday afternoon, saying “this ...

Conservation works have officially commenced at the historic mosque and cemetery in Tochni, the UNDP said in a post on X, hailing the project as “a crucial step in preserving ...

An increase in the volume of fresh water and the illegal dumping of rubbish has created conditions that may lead to the gradual loss of Akrotiri’s wetland, chairman of ...

Lawyers and MPs expressed reservations on Wednesday over proposed legislation to restrict the right to protest, however the police and state bodies said it was a good idea, while masqueraded ...

MPs on Wednesday pointed to possible violations of the law regarding Opap grants, saying that Opap may be “filtering” the applications before sending them to the finance ministry. The House ...

The employers and industrialists’ union (OEV) and the Cyprus chamber of commerce and industry (Keve) have welcomed the tax reforms proposed by the government on Wednesday, saying they were a ...

A total of 1,271 inmates were taken to state and private hospitals in 2024, the prisons department said on Tuesday, slamming press reports questioning the administration’s policy as “unfounded”. Replying to ...