Tom Cleaver

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) and the island’s football clubs on Friday insisted they are on the right track with regards to the policies they have undertaken to ensure ...

The Paphos district government on Friday announced that it would begin to remove billboards from the district’s main roads. It said it had taken the decision to “immediately remove ...

The Republic of Cyprus and the north both expressed overall satisfaction with the Council of Europe’s committee of ministers’ decisions regarding developments related to the use of and compensation ...

Trade union Oiyk-Sek on Friday hailed the “immediate results” of the government’s decision to promote nursing and midwifery as a career both in Cyprus’ education sector and in the ...

Students at the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou on Thursday denied any links to a student recruitment agency which had been receiving thousands of euros ...

King Abdullah II of Jordan said he is “looking forward” to his next visit to Cyprus, which will take place before the end of the year. Receiving the credentials of ...

Cyprus industrial workers’ federation (Oviek-Sek) secretary-general George Kasiouris on Thursday called for a “balanced approach” regarding the employment of third-country nationals on the island. “The strategy of granting work permits ...

The Turkish Cypriot mukhtar of the Morphou district village of Kyra Turgay Yildiz was sentenced to nine months in prison on Thursday after having been found guilty of giving a ...

Cyprus’ first ever national cybersecurity exercise was a “success”, the communications commissioner’s office said on Thursday. The exercise, named ‘CyberCyprus 2024’, took place on Wednesday, with the communications commissioner’s ...

A British tourist was on Thursday sentenced to two months in prison in the north after having been convicted for the possession of cannabis. The man appeared in front of ...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci was on Thursday fitted with a permanent pacemaker. Northern Nicosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital’s chief physician Adil Ozyilkan explained that the operation ...

The number of arrests made in connection with the violent episodes which broke out at Sunday’s abandoned Limassol derby between Ael and Apollon rose to ten on Thursday, with ...

A fire in the Limassol district village of Alektora burned a total of a hectare of a half of land on Wednesday night. The land burnt was mostly forest scrub ...

A urologist was fined after the health insurers’ organisation (HIO) found various irregularities in his expenses claims for the month of August, including that he had claimed expenses for scanning ...

A 43-year-old man was charged with premeditated murder in court in Trikomo on Wednesday after having allegedly killed a man by dousing him in petrol and setting him and his ...

A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of having stolen a mobile phone and of living illegally in Cyprus, police in the Famagusta district announced on Thursday. Famagusta district police ...

The minimum wage in the north was set at a figure higher than that of the Republic of Cyprus at a meeting of the north’s minimum wage determination commission ...

A 17-year-old boy was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday after having been convicted of robbing a simit shop in northern Nicosia. Jude Tutku Candas said the boy ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to sack Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides “essentially abolishes the audit service and democracy”, he told audit office staff on Wednesday. In farewell remarks to his ...

Former House President Yiannakis Omirou on Wednesday called on the government to “act quickly and effectively” to ensure the delivery of National Guard files from Greece concerning 1974 which contain information ...

Limassol mayor Yiannis Armeftis’ proposal for a park and ride service to be opened in his city is “illegal”, Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) employees’ trade union Sap-Tepak said on ...

Dismissed Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides said on Wednesday the system has “successfully beheaded me”. Speaking after the Supreme Constitutional Court’s decision to relieve him of his duties was handed down, ...

Diko MP Panicos Leonidou is to visit the Vatican City on Wednesday over plans for Easter to be celebrated on the same day by all denominations of Christianity. Leonidou is ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court was “unanimous” in its decision over whether or not Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides will be fired, it was heard in court on Wednesday. Proceedings in Nicosia began ...