Rebekah Gregoriades

MEPs from Cyprus and Greece called for the release of five Greek Cypriots arrested in the north in July and demanded measures be taken against Turkey, during a debate at ...

Limassol district court on Thursday ordered two women remanded in police custody, after their arrest on suspicion of fraud. The two suspects will be held in police custody for five ...

Mainly fine weather is expected on Thursday with local clouds in the afternoon and temperatures reaching 37C inland, 33C along the coast and 28C in the highest mountains. Winds will ...

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech on Wednesday that the commission intended to propose the creation of a new European firefighting hub based in Cyprus, ...

The parents of an infant hospitalised with a brain haemorrhage were remanded in custody for four days on Wednesday, after doctors said they were looking into shaken baby syndrome. The ...

The government’s reform of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) is “a huge reform”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday, just a day before a three-hour general strike called by the ...

Discussions begin on Wednesday at the House of Representatives regarding the legal framework concerning the distinction of the current double role of the attorney-general, with the creation of a general ...

A 34-year-old man was remanded in custody on Wednesday after being arrested earlier in the day at Larnaca airport, having arrived with over 24kg of cannabis in his suitcase. Police ...

Parents and guardians of schoolchildren are responsible for picking them up ahead of Thursday’s general strike, the education ministry said on Wednesday. Buses will not be running, so children ...

No lives will be in danger during the general strike on Thursday and no patients will be left without proper medical care, the State health services organisation (Okypy) said on ...

Seven tourists have been added to Ayia Napa’s long list of honorary regular visitors, the municipality said on Wednesday. The new ‘tourism ambassadors’ are Paul Johnson with 61 visits, Michael ...

A 29-year-old was arrested on Tuesday in the framework of police investigations into the possession of drugs and explosives. The police said on Wednesday this was the eighth person to ...

A 22-year-old who arrested on Tuesday in Larnaca to facilitate investigations into a drugs case, has been remanded on Wednesday for eight days by the Larnaca district court. Members of ...

A sunny start off for Wednesday before clouds form in the afternoon, yielding isolated showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly in the mountains. Winds will be a southwest to northwest ...

Parts of a bill to create a national fund to reimburse Greek Cypriots who lost access to their property in the north after the 1974 Turkish invasion contradict the constitution, the ...

A series of finance ministry discrepancies were highlighted on Tuesday by the Audit Office, including the delayed return of close to €9 million by the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency and the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides visited the Paralimni gymnasium on Monday for “national reasons” and announced upgrades to the school worth €5.5 million as well as a new sports school in the region ...

Excavations are currently underway at eight sites – seven in the north and one in the south – by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), however sources said on Saturday that no ...

Under the slogan “Stop the famine – stop the genocide”, the Cyprus Peace Council is calling on the public to join a protest next Saturday in Nicosia “against the man-made humanitarian ...

The unaudited status of the attorney-general is not included in the package of bills on the reform of the legal service, which is set to be discussed on September 10 at ...

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Nicosia is running an investigation into the project for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Vasiliko, on suspicion of procurement ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday evening made an appeal to both trade unions and employers, urging them to exercise patience in the face of ongoing differences in the context of ...

A 56-year-old man on Wednesday was handed two consecutive prison sentences of ten years each for the two charges of manslaughter for his role in connection with two murders in ...

The education ministry is “ready for the new school year”, ahead of which the cabinet decided on Wednesday to improve benefits for pregnant teachers, whether full-time or replacements. “We continue ...