Tom Cleaver

The government is to create a paramedics’ registry, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said the bill will “secure” the profession, adding ...

Snow in Istanbul led to 13 flights to and from the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport being cancelled on Friday. The flights were cancelled after snow in and around the city ...

A bill to legalise the creation of university clinics is to be put before cabinet next Wednesday, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (...

The donation drive to fund the “Karpasia donkeys management plan” aims to raise 2.28 million TL (€59,793), Kemal Basat, director of its overseeing organisation, the Tashkent nature park, said on Friday. He ...

A tender process with the aim of installing two new generators at the Dhekelia power station has begun, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday. Speaking after a meeting with ...

Two flights to and from the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport were cancelled on Thursday after snow in Istanbul caused Turkey’s flag carrier airline Turkish Airlines reduce its service ...

The highway connecting Paphos and Polis Chrysochous will “give a future” to the residents of the region, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday. Addressing the House audit committee, he ...

Green party leader Giorgos Perdikis on Thursday sent a strongly worded letter to Famagusta district governor Yiannis Karousos after it was alleged that district government employees uprooted palm trees from ...

A fire which completely destroyed a car in the early hours of Thursday morning in Limassol was set maliciously, the police said. The car belonged to a 70-year-old man, with ...

The Nicosia general hospital is to introduce fees at its car park, the state health services organisation (Okypy) announced on Thursday. Okypy said there will now be a “controlled parking ...

The fire brigade’s report on the fire which killed a family of five in Limassol last weekend is set to be submitted to the police on Monday, fire brigade ...

Michalis Katsounotos was on Thursday among three people named as the police’s assistant chiefs. He was appointed to the role alongside Ioannis Mavrochannas and Marios Ayiotis, with the appointments ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Thursday spoke of an “encouraging” first step towards normalising relations with Syria after meeting Syrian transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani in ...

Two more people were arrested in the early hours of Thursday in connection with police investigations into the bizarre criminal groups which has made headlines in recent weeks after using ...

The killers of the 14 donkeys which were found to have been shot dead in Karpasia on Sunday will not face jail, Cyprus Turkish Bar Association animal rights committee chairwoman Suna ...

Cypriot clubs Omonia and Pafos FC are gearing up to face each other in the second leg of their Uefa Europa Conference League knockout phase playoff tie, which will go ...

A new sports complex was opened at Famagusta’s Turk Maarif Koleji (TMK) school in honour of the 24 children who attended the school who died during the earthquakes which hit ...

The Cyprus Turkish educators’ union (Kibtes)’ chairman Himmet Turgut on Wednesday defended his demand that more religion classes be taught in the north’s schools, while also issuing a wholehearted ...

Former agriculture minister Petros Xenophontos on Wednesday hailed the reopening of Cyprus’ forestry college, with the college now accepting applications for students wishing to study there from the next academic ...

The government cannot issue a decree outlawing the levying of administrative charges by car dealerships to replace faulty airbags, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Wednesday. Speaking after the day’...

A 72-year-old man was arrested on Monday on suspicion of having aided and abetted a crime and of having interfered with judicial proceedings, with the police believing he is connected ...

The electricity supplied to the Republic of Cyprus by the north was provided free of charge, the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek workers’ trade union El-Sen leader Ahmet Tugcu said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said he will visit London with the aim of persuading Cypriots based in the United Kingdom to return to the island. “On May 21, I will ...

Turkish Cypriot athlete Kemal Elektrikci on Wednesday announced that he will complete a 24-hour swim to “show that we stand against the bastards who committed the donkey massacre” in Karpasia ...