Tom Cleaver

The preservation of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, is the government’s “strategic goal”, Migration Deputy Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Sunday. Speaking at the Klirou cultural festival in ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said “everyone recognises the Greek Cypriot side’s constructive approach” regarding efforts to solve the Cyprus problem. Speaking at a memorial ceremony for Eoka fighter ...

Flights are continuing to and from Cyprus on Sunday to facilitate the departure of people from across the world from Lebanon and their onward journey to their countries of origin. ...

Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Anna Aristotelous on Sunday said it is the government’s “duty and commitment” to ascertain the fate of all the people who went missing during Turkey’s ...

A total of 6,000 cigarettes which had been illegally transported from the north to the Republic were confiscated from a coffee shop in Aradippou, the customs department said on Sunday. The ...

A 21-year-old man was arrested after being seen on CCTV footage handing out smoke bombs to other football fans at Saturday’s football match between Ael and Ethnikos Achnas. The ...

A 68-year-old man from Limassol died after being run over by his own car after having parked it and failed to apply the handbrake before getting out, the police said ...

Maintenance work at the Ayios Theodoros church in the Karpas peninsula village of the same name has been completed, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Sotos Ktoris said. Ktoris ...

The European Commission on Friday announced it had approved the addition of Agros rosewater to its Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) register. The commission described the rosewater as “an aromatic water ...

The United States’ amphibious assault ship the USS Wasp returned to Cyprus on Friday, US ambassador to Cyprus Julie Fisher said. In a post on social media, she said the ...

The bill approved by cabinet to reform the audit office, creating a new audit board, will be submitted to the legal service for legal and technical examinations before the end ...

Turkish Cypriot taxpayers are paying 10 million TL (€264,620) every month to pay for Ercan (Tymbou) airport’s electricity consumption, the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s workers’ trade union El-Sen leader ...

The first ‘Green Kiosks in Cyprus were inaugurated on Friday, with Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou saying they will not only serve as waste collection points, but will also “raise public ...

The barbed wire placed in Cyprus’ buffer zone near the villages of Akaki, Peristerona, and Astromeritis to kerb migrant flows is still there, despite government promises to remove it, United ...

Environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou’s brief has been expanded to include animal welfare, the government announced on Friday. President Nikos Christodoulides had made the decision to coincide with World Animal ...

Some people in the north are complaining that the call to prayer is too loud, while others are complaining that it is too quiet to be heard, the north’s ...

Olive oil prices are expected to begin to fall in the coming weeks and months after a 61 per cent rise was seen between September and September last year, consumers’ association ...

The United Nations must keep its word regarding the Cyprus problem, Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on Thursday. He was speaking about his plans to ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Thursday after having been arrested in Turkey, having flown from the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport after crossing to the north ...

The European Commission on Thursday announced that it had sued Cyprus over the country’s failure to implement European Union laws regarding corporate tax. Cyprus has, according to the commission, ...

Governments on Thursday were ramping up their preparations to assist their citizens in Lebanon who wished to depart the country. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced on Thursday that her ...

Diko MP Zacharias Koulias did not cause a crisis when he announced he was going to appoint a new auditor-general himself, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. “There was no ...

The Lockheed C-130 transport aircraft provided by the Greek defence ministry to facilitate the evacuation of Cypriot citizens from Lebanon arrived at Larnaca airport on Thursday. The aircraft touched down ...

A total of 15 people are set to appear in court in the British bases, accused of stalking and harassment. Detective inspector and the British bases’ police safeguarding lead Tony Demetriou ...