Tom Cleaver

President Nikos Christodoulides met with the members of his Advisory Council for the first time on Wednesday, with a view to the council holding its first meeting next Monday. The ...

Interior minister Constantinos Ioannou travelled to Athens on Tuesday to meet with the Greek social cohesion and family minister Sofia Zacharaki. The pair met with the aim of designing a ...

With Cyprus hospitals full to bursting, questions have been asked after the situation seemed to peak with a man who had suffered a stroke reportedly left waiting at Paphos hospital’...

The labour ministry’s inspection services handed out a total of €21,500 in fines to businesses employing undeclared workers during the month of June, it said on Tuesday. A total of 15 ...

The first few days of operation of the new terminal at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport have been plagued by power cuts and other technical issues. After being officially ...

Teams from the Limassol municipality joined forces with local volunteers with the aim of ridding the city of graffiti over the weekend. Three teams of six municipal workers as well ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan referenced the Annan Plan in a speech on Monday evening while also expressing hope for a “lasting and just peace” in Cyprus. “We will not ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 29-year-old man for illegal possession of drugs and “various traffic violations” after attempting to flag him down for a routine stop on Monday evening. The ...

A total of four arrests have been made after two boats carrying irregular migrants arrived in the Cape Greco area on Monday night, with a combined 44 people on board. The ...

A sea turtle which died off the coast of Cyprus was found to have more than 500 grams of plastic in its digestive system. The turtle died after becoming entangled in ...

The north’s waterworks department announced a water shortage on Monday, caused by power cuts. They say that due to recent power cuts, water cannot be efficiently pumped around the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides told a meeting of heads of diplomatic missions on Monday that the European Union’s response to his proposal regarding the Cyprus problem has been “exceptionally positive”. ...

Two new fixed traffic cameras were switched on in Limassol on Monday morning, bringing the total number of fixed traffic cameras in the country to seven. The cameras have been ...

A Ukrainian woman who was jailed in March after wielding a knife at a pro-Russia gathering in Larnaca has been freed after successfully appealing her conviction. The 55-year-old was jailed ...

A hotel in Ayia Napa was evacuated on Monday morning after a chlorine leak occurred in its basement, the fire services said. The fire brigade responded to the incident alongside ...

A man died after jumping from a balcony on the eighth floor, following an explosion in his apartment in Famagusta in the early hours of Monday morning, police in the ...

The Independent trade unions federation (Poaso) has called on the government to implement a windfall tax on profits from renewable energy sources. They say that the proceeds from the tax ...

Education minister Athena Michaelidou held a reception on Friday for the highest achievers of this years Pancyprian examinations. Michaelidou said “it was an exceptionally important meeting for us, very pleasant, ...

A man has been arrested and remanded in custody for seven days in the north after police found drugs and related paraphernalia, which had been smuggled from the Republic, in ...

The north and Turkey signed an agreement on Thursday evening which allows citizens of the ‘TRNC’ access to Turkish consular assistance while in third countries. The agreement was signed in ...

Cyprus Airways, the island’s flag-carrier airline, unveiled its two new Airbus A220 aircraft at a ceremony at Larnaca airport on Friday. The A220 is the smallest aircraft in Airbus’...

The heat shelter in Nicosia will remain open for a second successive weekend. The shelter, which is located at the municipal multipurpose centre near the Famagusta Gate in the walled ...

Swathes of Nicosia woke up without electricity on Friday morning after power cuts hit the districts of Strovolos and Latsia. According to the Electricity authority (EAC), the morning’s first ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz committed a social media faux pas on Thursday when he accompanied a celebratory tweet regarding the anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus with a ...