Tom Cleaver

A fake news scam which has circulated on social media in recent weeks has posed as the Cyprus Mail and Cypriot businessman Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. The website, hosted at “zenform....

The electricity authority (EAC) is to propose a 3 per cent increase in the price of electricity paid by consumers, its chairman George Petrou said on Tuesday. The plan comes after ...

House president Annita Demetriou spent over €15,000 for luxury hotel rooms for three nights for those accompanying her on a trip to London, according to a report released by the audit ...

Energy Minister Geroge Papanastasiou on Tuesday praised the “common political will” of his eight counterparts from the European Union’s other ‘Med9’ states to “promote a coherent green development strategy”. ...

The Cyprus securities and exchange commission (CySEC) on Tuesday said it is “taking practical steps to collect all the available data and information” before deciding whether it will investigate claims ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will meet Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis in Athens on Thursday, according to reports. The Cyprus News Agency reported that Holguin will meet Gerapetritis ...

Nursery school workers across Cyprus went on strike on Tuesday, demanding better pay and conditions. Their trade unions, Paseu-Peo and Ouuk-Sek, said on Tuesday morning that they had sent various ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ voted in the early hours of Tuesday morning to relax its laws relating to the operation of casinos, following a full day of arguments over the ...

The construction of a new port in the Limassol district village of Pentakomo would have “immediate and irreversible environmental impacts”, ornithological charity BirdLife Cyprus’ campaign coordinator Tasos Shialis said on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar formally kicked off his campaign to win re-election on Monday evening, bringing together the three political parties which have endorsed his campaign for his first ...

It was outside the police’s remit to inform the road safety council of links between potentially faulty airbags and fatalities on Cyprus’ roads, the police’s traffic department director ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Monday called for the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport to be treated as a Turkish airport, suggesting that the move may allow ...

Parents of people killed in car accidents due to faulty airbags manufactured by Japanese company Takata decried the “cheap excuses” offered by current and former state officials called to testify ...

The government’s ‘e-Kalathi’ application is “fully ready”, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Monday. “The application is full ready, as the consumer protection service, which is the competent agency ...

Seabed surveys to find a sinking point for the pipeline which will take natural gas from Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to Egypt for liquefaction will begin this week, Energy ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Monday said he “cannot tell” if consumers’ energy bills will go down after Cyprus’ electricity grid is opened to private companies. “I cannot tell you ...

Australian Cypriot footballer Aziz Behich captained his team Melbourne City to a league title in Australia’s premier football competition, the A League this weekend. Melbourne City beat fierce city ...

Turkish Cypriots have been rendered “anxious, intimidated, and threatened” by the flurry of arrests made by the Republic of Cyprus of people accused of selling Greek Cypriot-owned property in the ...

The arrests made by the Republic of Cyprus of people accused of selling Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north may have been “designed as a reaction to the Turkish side’...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Saturday renewed his call for crossing points to be opened in the eastern Nicosia suburb of Mia Milia, and in the village of Louroujina, ...

A federal Cyprus already exists at the mafia level, former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Ferdi Sabit Soyer said. “A federation has been established in Cyprus. It has been established unofficially, ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou will attend this week’s meeting of energy ministers from the European Union’s ‘Med9’ states, which is set to take place in the town of ...

The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Prometheas, which is to be used at the under-construction liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Vasiliko, is to be certified for use in ...

Both Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and President Nikos Christodoulides “expressed willingness to make progress” towards achieving and implementing the confidence-building measures agreed upon at March’s enlarged meeting on ...