Tom Cleaver

A Cyprus-based shipping company by the name of “GMCG Ltd” was designated as “blocked property” by the United States’ government as part of the country’s latest round of sanctions ...

Cyprus Public Transport expressed its fury on Thursday over workers in Larnaca’s decision to go on strike on Wednesday evening. A total of 120 Larnaca-based Cyprus Public Transport employees, including ...

Former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator Kudret Ozersay on Wednesday night announced that he will not stand in this October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election. Ozersay had stood in both the 2015 ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym Jomart-Tokayev had “discussed respecting the equal and inherent rights of the Turkish Cypriots”. Speaking following a bilateral ...

Τhe two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by Al Jazeera into the alleged illegal naturalisations of people as citizens of the Republic of Cyprus, commonly known as ...

The government aims to restore electricity to 80 per cent of areas which were impacted by the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district last week by the weekend, Energy Minister ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Wednesday announced a “financial support plan” worth €1.3 million to help people who have been left unable to work if their workplaces or means of work ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday said he and members of the ‘government’ he led between 2019 and 2020 had “convinced Turkey” to support a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem. “...

There is currently no plan regarding the distribution of aid packages to people displaced by the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district, local mayors said on Tuesday.Kourion mayor ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday night said his government will “always stand by the Turkish Cypriots”. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, he said that during his visit to ...

Five people were on Tuesday found guilty for the death of Turkish Cypriot Tansu Cidan, who died in the central prison in 2022. The five included two of his fellow inmates ...

The two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’ who sit as independents have endorsed opposition candidate Tufan Erhurman’s candidacy for this October’s Turkish Cypriot leader. Aysegul Baybars and Jale Refik Rogers, ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan briefed the European Union’s enlargement commissioner Marta Kos on the recent enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, which was held earlier this month in ...

Electricity has been restored in most of the of the villages affected by last week’s wildfires, electricity authority (EAC) spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulou said in a social media post on ...

The amount of money the state is collecting in taxes is on the rise, a report into the tax department’s activities released by the audit office on Monday said, ...

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has had a second of his degrees revoked by Istanbul University, with the university on Monday night announcing that it had elected to cancel his master’...

Turkish energy company Aksa reacted with fury over reports that it had financed a Turkish Cypriot leadership election poll which showed opposition candidate Tufan Erhurman to hold a 14-per-cent lead ...

The fire department on Monday disputed claims by the community leader of Vouni village that they “ran out of water” while fighting the wildfire tearing through the Limassol district last ...

A protest by skip loader owners was held in Nicosia on Monday, with 57 vehicles moving along a route from the agriculture ministry to the presidential palace and then to the ...

The United States navy’s guided missile destroyer the USS Arleigh Burke arrived in Cyprus on Monday, the American embassy in Nicosia announced. The ship is the lead ship of ...

The European Union should station two firefighting aircraft in Cyprus, Disy member of the European parliament Michalis Hadjipantela said on Monday. In a press conference at European Union House in ...

Israeli property developer Simon Aykut saw his request to be released from custody rejected by the Nicosia criminal court on Monday. Aykut is accused of developing and selling €43 million worth ...

A team of 150 people are working “non-stop” to repair the damage caused to electrical infrastructure in the Limassol district by the wildfire which tore through the area last week, electricity ...

The water development department is “preparing for the worst-case scenario” with regard to Cyprus’ water supply, as a hot and dry summer saw levels of water in the island’s ...