Tom Cleaver

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that it is not unconstitutional nor a violation of European Union law for the construction of luxury camp sites, also known as ‘glamping’, to ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Wednesday night praised both workers and employers in the concrete sector for agreeing to the negotiation framework he has devised with the aim of bringing ...

A total of 448kgs of meat smuggled from the Republic were found by local police in Famagusta on Wednesday, the town’s Turkish Cypriot municipality said. The meat, all of ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Wednesday said he was not “indifferent” to the challenges of local government reform and that he in fact “did more than that for which the ...

The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Prometheas, which will form part of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at he, will set sail for Cyprus from Shanghai at the ...

Cyprus Football Association (CFA) chairman Giorgos Koumas came under heavy criticism on Wednesday after the Cyprus sports writers’ union withdrew an award from a journalist who had uncovered corruption within ...

The House legal committee on Thursday called for improvements to the procedural framework surrounding public contracts, amid a wave of contracts being terminated by the government in the second half ...

The north’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached just over €3.6 billion at the end of 2023, the north’s statistics institute reported on Tuesday. That figure corresponds to a growth of 7.3 ...

Cypriot authorities are “unable to respond and prevent any environmental disasters”, non-governmental organisation Terra Cypria said on Tuesday. The organisation was responding to confirmation from the environment department the previous ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday promised that the highway connecting Paphos and Polis Chrysochous will be ready within the next three years, as local residents questioned the viability of ...

The case against the 15-year-old boy who stands accused of having edited into existence explicit images of teachers and pupils at the school he attends had his latest court hearing ...

Trade unions Sek, Peo, and Deok expressed their dissatisfaction on Tuesday over what they called an “unfortunate intervention” by Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou into the unresolved labour dispute in the ...

“All parties” have given their consent for an enlarged meeting to be held on the Cyprus problem, according to reports on Monday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that a “brief ...

Police in Paphos fired warning shots on Monday night as a 41-year-old man attempted to escape being arrested for a suspected kidnapping. The police believe the man may be connected ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Dogus Derya was branded a “terrorist” by pro-‘government’ demonstrators on Monday night after she threw water at the man the north’s ruling ...

Cyprus’ reservoirs are still only a quarter full, according to data released by the water development department, despite heavy rain hitting swathes of the island over the last two weeks. ...

By Tom Cleaver The ‘No child without a coat’ campaign was launched by the Aglandjia municipality and the Alkinoos Artemiou foundation for the third successive year on Monday. The foundation ...

The north’s population was projected as exactly 476,214 by its statistics institute on Monday. The institute said its projection was “produced in line with assumptions prepared by taking into account ...

The ongoing argument over whether ruling coalition party UBP ‘MP’ Ziya Ozturkler is or is not the north’s ‘parliament speaker’ became physical in ‘parliament’ on Monday, as he once ...

The “isolated incidents” of flooding seen in Limassol during storms on Sunday were caused by foreign objects, many of which constitute litter, becoming stuck in drains, the public works department’...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Monday called for house prices to fall. He pointed out that Cyprus has seen the third-lowest rate of house price increases in the European Union ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested after trashing a hotel lobby in Paphos, police announced on Monday. Paphos police assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said the incident had occurred shortly before ...

A man was arrested after presenting a counterfeit French identify card at passport control at Larnaca airport, police announced on Monday. The incident took place at around 3.35pm on Sunday, ...

A British Royal Air Force reservist was sacked after sending photographs of his penis – known as ‘dick pics’ – to a female colleague while he was deployed in Cyprus. The man, ...