Tom Cleaver

The forestry college is to reopen in January, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Wednesday, with its first intake of students scheduled for September next year. Panayiotou was speaking after ...

The House commerce committee on Tuesday decried a “falsification of the truth by certain circles” over a bill aimed at setting a maximum price of bottled water at certain points ...

Farmers are preparing to protest next Monday over the ongoing water shortage, demanding more be allocated to farmland. There will be two simultaneous protests taking place, one in Paphos and ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou called for the European Union’s common agricultural policy to be “enriched” to support small and medium-sized farms, it was reported on Tuesday. Speaking at a ...

The north’s ‘education ministry’ on Tuesday reacted with “deep sorrow and concern” over images drawn by children depicting Turkey’s invasion of the island in 1974. The images appeared on ...

Upgrades to the anti-flood channel in Livadia “will be complete in the second half of 2025”, the Livadia Borough said on Tuesday. Work on the anti-flood channel began at the beginning ...

Archbishop Georgios on Monday night said it was Paphos which “overturned the junta’s plans”. Paphos, he said, “rescued Makarios and allowed him to flee abroad to defend the interests ...

Humanitarian aid gathered in Cyprus will reach Gaza “no matter what”, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said on Tuesday. Singh was being questioned over the state of the temporary jetty, which ...

Painted motifs were found on the interior walls of the mosque in the Paphos district village of Terra, as restoration work on the mosque began.  The motifs were discovered under ...

The visit of Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias to Cyprus on Monday “shows a very clear separation” of the country’s modern government from the junta which sponsored a coup ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday said he had not yet decided whether or not he will run in next year’s Turkish Cypriot leadership elections. ...

A drone illegally delivered two packages into the central prison on Sunday night. Prison guards spotted the drone between 10pm and 11pm, and witnessed it fly into the prison’s ...

“Turkey would have pulled out of Cyprus” if the attempted coup d’état which was performed in the country in 2016 had succeeded, Turkish ambassador in northern Nicosia Metin Feyzioglu said ...

The government is to install cameras to catch overweight lorries, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Monday. Speaking to news website Reporter, he explained that spot weighing equipment has already ...

Workers at the state health services organisation (Okypy) on Monday threatened to go on strike over the organisation’s hiring of seasonal workers. Two trade unions, Pasykek-Peo and Oekdy-Sek, announced ...

A yellow weather warning for storms was issued by the met office on Monday. The warning is in effect from 12pm until 5pm, with storms expected to mainly impact the ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former state pathologist Panicos Stavrianos may file a case to annul a court ruling which found national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, who died in 2005, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday commemorated the anniversary of coups d’état in Cyprus and Turkey. July 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the coup in Cyprus backed by ...

There will “soon” be a “substantial effort” to resolve the Cyprus problem, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He was speaking at a ceremony to remember soldiers who died during ...

A total of 15 people appeared in court in Morphou on Sunday, accused of having stolen 2,500 heads of garlic from a field. The police’s representative in court said the garlic ...

A 17-year-old National Guard conscript who was hospitalised after feeling unwell during an exercise will be taken to France to undergo further treatment, it was announced on Sunday. He will ...

A “record-breaking” turtle weighing 90 kilograms was rescued by a team in Cyprus and taken to the Tashkent nature park in Vouno to undergo treatment, the park’s director Kemal Basat ...

House President Annita Demetriou said on Sunday she “cannot be so optimistic or talk about optimism” with regard to the Cyprus problem. She was addressing student union Pofen’s annual ...

A dead body was found on Silver beach in Engomi Ammochostou, near Famagusta, on Sunday. The Turkish Cypriot police said the body was found near the rocks on the beach, ...