Rebekah Gregoriades

Cooperative banks are set to make a comeback, with regional meetings to inform the public scheduled for October, during which people will be able to sign up. Learning from the ...

The government will propose professor Costas Kadis for Cyprus’ EU commissioner, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. Kadis’ experience from serving the Republic of Cyprus in various posts, as ...

From the very outset, Cyprus’ flagship waste treatment facility at Pentakomo was beset by official indifference and negligence, says its former manager The “state-of-the-art” municipal waste treatment facility at Pentakomo ...

Will it be a good year for rain or will the drought continue? If you’d like to predict the weather for the rest of the year, August is the ...

Russia has expressed its opposition to direct flights to the north of Cyprus and the militarisation of the eastern Mediterranean. Director of the Fourth European Department at the Russian Foreign ...

Chairman of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (Cera) Andreas Poullikas has handed in his resignation, which reportedly has nothing to do with major energy issues still pending, the finalising of ...

A fire that broke out on Thursday at the edge of the Kelia state forest is believed to have been intentional. The Forestry Department reported on Friday that the fire ...

The carob – sit in its shade and enjoy its sweet pods, but not before August 15 You may know the carob tree from its ‘fat shade’ or pashia skia – as the ...

A red alert for forest fires has been issued by the Forestry Department for Tuesday. Lighting fires without permission is an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to ten ...

The Palestinian embassy in Nicosia has demanded emergency international intervention to stop atrocities against the Palestinians, the continuation of which is “proof of the failure of the international community” to ...

The Supreme Court ordered that a Syrian, in custody for the past 18 months pending his deportation for reasons of national security, be released. In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court ...

The 64-officer mission set to fly to Greece in the early hours of Tuesday has been called off. Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said the Greek government has changed its request ...

The way the Great Sea Interconnector is being promoted “bears serious risks and many problems,” associations affiliated with the Cyprus Employers & Industrialists Federation (Oev) related to energy matters have ...

Producers and supermarkets have been found to be charging “unreasonably high prices” for fruit and vegetables, the commerce ministry said. The ministry’s Consumer Protection Service carried out checks and ...

A 41-year-old was sentenced to 11 years in prison for possession of 7.5kg of cannabis. Police said the sentence was passed on Tuesday. The 41-year-old had been arrested in March in ...

A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with two cases of theft and causing malicious damage to property. The police said the man appears to be involved in two ...

Seasonal low pressure is affecting the area, with the weather remaining mainly fine on Thursday and temperatures not expected to exceed 38C inland. Temperatures along the coast will range from 31...

Two girls, aged 15 and 16, are suspected of stealing a bag from a sunbed on a Larnaca beach on Wednesday. A complaint was received by the police at 1pm on Wednesday ...

The first phase of the Nicosia highway ring road was delivered on Thursday at noon, allowing traffic to flow freely between western Nicosia and the cities of Larnaca and Limassol, ...

Thursday marks 60 years since the bombing of Tillyria in 1964 when, from August 7 to 9, Turkish air forces dropped napalm bombs on villages in the area. President of the community council of ...

The House plenary will be convening in an emergency session on Thursday, after the president referred a law back to parliament, along with three others to the Supreme Constitutional Court. ...

Eight years after they were first mooted, courses at the University of Cyprus in languages other than Greek have proven divisive as the education ministry works to tie up loose ...

Green Dot, which has collected PMD and paper from homes since 2006, said on Tuesday it has done everything it should after a fire destroyed the processing plant it used and ...

Child allowance is increased by 5 per cent and half the allowance will still be given for children of large families who are now university students. With the government proposals now ...