#cemetery

Restoration works are currently underway at 70 cemeteries across Cyprus in an effort to build trust between the two communities, co-chairman of the bicommunal technical committee for cultural heritage Sotos Ktoris ...

Exhumations began on Thursday at Ayios Nikolaos cemetery in Limassol in a renewed effort to locate the remains of Cyprus’ national poet, Vasilis Michaelides. The excavation is taking place at ...

A second list of cemeteries which will undergo restoration in light of an agreement reached by President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar at the enlarged meeting on ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Wednesday visited two cemeteries which have undergone restorations since an agreement was reached by President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ...

A gun and several rounds of ammunition were found hidden inside a grave at a cemetery in Limassol on Tuesday, raising suspicions of criminal activity. Police said they acted on ...

Three of President Nikos Christodoulides’ proposals in talks on Monday on confidence building measures with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar were rejected, with the latter said to have taken up ...

Contracts were signed on for the creation of a new cemetery within the bounds of the Polis Chrysochous municipality, the town’s mayor announced on Friday. He said the contract ...

A 47-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Larnaca criminal court on Thursday after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit a felony, transportation ...

The British Cemeteries Committee (BCC) arranged the burial of six British nationals whose remains were never claimed by relatives and had been held for several years in hospital mortuaries in ...

Two men, 46 and 35, arrested as suspects following the discovery of a weapons cache in Oroklini, will remain in custody until their next court date, the Larnaca District Court decided on ...

Yeroskipou municipality said on Friday it will increase security measures at the municipal cemetery following a recent spate of burglaries. The municipality said it has strengthened the cemetery fencing and ...

A court decision vindicating a 78-year-old man for refusing to pay cemetery tax to Oroklini council, may put other municipalities in Cyprus between a rock and a hard place, the ...

Outrage has erupted following accusations that construction works by the side of a cemetery have destroyed graves and desecrated the grounds. Efi Xanthou, of the Greens party, claims that the ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is carrying out exhumations at the Paphos cemetery as part of efforts to identify the remains of people who perished in the Tylliria area ...

Police on Tuesday confirmed they were investigating reports that a body was stolen from a cemetery near Anthoupolis in the Nicosia district. A spokesman told the Cyprus Mail that earlier ...

Police ruled out foul play in the discovery of a dead baby in a grave at Paralimni cemetery on Tuesday, after they determined that it had been buried there after ...