Tom Cleaver

Charalambos Savva, the deputy mayor of the Paphos district village of Ayia Marinouda, called for stricter checks on landfills, after a fire broke out at a landfill site in his ...

Ierokipia mayor Nikos Palios on Monday announced that he had sent a letter to the Union of Cyprus municipalities, proposing that the union raise €250,000 for the villages which were impacted ...

A book which offers fierce criticism for late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash caused fury among the Turkish Cypriot community over the weekend, with figures from across the north’s ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ televised apology for the government’s response to the wildfires which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last week was “not enough”, House president ...

Cabinet will approve the first plans to offer compensation to people whose property was damaged or destroyed by last week’s wildfire in Limassol when it convenes on Wednesday, according ...

Speeding fines incurred by people who were fleeing the wildfire which broke out in the Limassol district this week and were caught by mobile speed cameras will be cancelled, the ...

A second Greek island is to stage a protest against the planned arrival of an Israeli cruise ship which last week docked in Cyprus after being turned away from Syros. ...

A total of 160 people are currently being housed in temporary accommodation after being evacuated from their homes due to the wildfire which has been burning in the Limassol district since ...

A Cyprus-based company lost €458,000 worth of cryptocurrency after a hacker gained access to its digital wallet, the police said on Saturday. The police said the incident took place in April, ...

Chris Havariyoun, a resident of the village of Souni-Zanakia, one of the villages worst affected by the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district this week, was on Saturday scathing ...

The wildfire which broke out in the Limassol district on Wednesday and killed two people “did not start by chance”, Marilena Athini, the mukhtar of Malia, the village in which ...

The police are continuing their investigations into the cause of the wildfire which swept through Limassol villages on Wednesday and Thursday and killed two people, spokeswoman Kyriaki Lambrianidou said on ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos has predicted that by 2037, there will be more Muslims than Christians in Cyprus. “In the Paphos district, 57 per cent of the population are Greek Cypriots. By 2034, ...

Some members of the public have still been seen trying to start new fires as recently as “the last few hours”, fire brigade chief Nikos Longinos said on Saturday morning. “...

It is “not right” to call northern Cyprus a “baby homeland”, Turkish opposition party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel said. He made the comment when asked by a journalist about the ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities would have sent a helicopter to help fight the wildfire which killed two people in the Limassol district this week, had their offer of help been ...

The Cypriot government on Friday evening issued an advisory warning people to avoid all travel to the border between Thailand and Cambodia, with an armed conflict between the two countries ...

Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Friday evening rushed to clarify statements he had made earlier in the day about the wildfire in the Limassol which killed two this week, saying ...

Cyprus’ two largest political parties, Disy and Akel, on Friday demanded answers from the government over its handling of the wildfire in the Limassol which killed two people during the ...

The mosque in the Limassol district village of Malia suffered serious damage in the wildfire which has been raging in the region since Wednesday. Bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage ...

The civil defence on Friday continued to work to find temporary accommodation for people displaced by the wildfire which has been raging in the Limassol district since Wednesday, its chief ...

A wildfire which broke out between the Kyrenia district villages of Ayios Amvrosios and Charkeia on Friday has been brought under control. Turkish Cypriot Ayios Epiktitos and Ayios Amvrosios mayor ...

Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis on Friday said that “we had absolutely no loss of life” in the wildfire which has been raging in the Limassol district since Wednesday, except for ...

Activists from the Brussels-based Hind Rajab foundation on Friday called for the arrest of a soldier serving in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) who they report is currently on holiday ...