Tom Cleaver

Customers who refuse to download the apps say they are discriminated against Smartphones may be pervasive – that extra appendage we never knew needed – but there is a still a significant ...

The first Israeli cruise ship of the summer, named the Crown Iris, arrived in Larnaca on Friday with a total of 1,600 tourists on board. The boat left the Israeli port ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou met with representatives of the lifeguards’ association on Friday to discuss issues such as infrastructure, equipment, and staff numbers. One of the main points of discussion ...

Teenagers from the Children’s rights protection commission met with Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Friday to discuss the issue of bullying in schools. The teenagers presented their findings and ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari has announced her intention to put into law new regulations on rehabilitation centres. Kanari said that the purpose of the proposed new law “is to regulate ...

The Greek and Turkish Cypriot mayors of Famagusta met in the town recently in a show of friendship, it emerged on Friday. Turkish Cypriot mayor Suleyman Ulucay invited his Greek ...

Police in Limassol have arrested a man who had been on the run for nearly two years after escaping from the Germasogeia police station in September 2021. The man, aged 26, had ...

Various representatives of the Larnaca district, including mayors, mukhtars, and members of parliament, have come together to voice their opposition to the proposed relocation of the Dali asphalt plant to ...

With summer now almost in full swing, labour inspection officer Evangelitsa Tsoulofta has reminded employers of their responsibilities regarding working in hot weather. Speaking on Thursday, she said that rising ...

The positions of the Paphos chamber of commerce and industry regarding the region’s planned new marina have been adopted by the deputy ministry of tourism, the chamber’s chairman ...

The health ministry honoured the outgoing chairman of the national thalassaemia commission Panos Englezos, with a prize-giving ceremony. The ceremony was attended by Health Minister Popi Kanari, who congratulated “the ...

The University of Cyprus has climbed 105 places to 368th in the QS World University Rankings. As a result, it is now ranked in the top 25 per cent of universities in ...

A stretch of beach in Famagusta which was allegedly closed by the Turkish military has now been confirmed as open to the public. The area, which spans three kilometres and ...

Cyprus is the 64th-most peaceful country on Earth, according to this year’s ‘Global Peace Index’, up one place from last year. The index, which is released yearly, is compiled ...

Eid al-Adha, one of the two major festivals in the Muslim calendar, began on Wednesday, with Muslims across Cyprus partaking in the celebrations. The festival, known as the Kurban Bayrami ...

Health Minister Popi Kanari unveiled a new children’s health awareness campaign on Tuesday called the Children’s Protection Shield. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of ...

The ‘governor’ of the north’s Famagusta district Ozden Keser has denied that a stretch of beach in the region has been closed to the public. He spoke after reports ...

Larnaca has commenced a pilot programme aimed at fighting back against a new invasive and potentially dangerous species of mosquito which has been found in the area. The Aedes aegypti ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has said that he is pushing for the opening of a new crossing point in the Nicosia village of Mia Milia. However, he said that ...

Nicosia announced its candidacy to become the European capital of culture in 2030 on Monday. The city’s mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis said that the decision to bid for the title had ...

Two children have escaped largely unharmed after a fire broke out in their home in Lakatamia on Monday. According to the fire brigade, the fire began at about 9:10am in ...

The social-democratic CTP party’s candidate Sami Ozuslu won a surprise victory in the north’s ‘parliamentary’ by-election on Sunday. Ozuslu won 44 per cent of the vote, beating conservative UBP ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Friday that female and male diplomats “now have the same opportunities and the same access to leadership positions” in Cyprus. Even so, speaking at ...

Cypriot-flagged ships are the eighth-most trustworthy in the world, according to the secretariat of the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU measures the performance of ships bearing the flags ...