Tom Cleaver

Pharmacists’ patience “has run out” over the issue of opening hours, pharmaceutical association chairman Ploutarchos Georgiades said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said his frustration is ...

Cyprus’ nominee for European Commissioner Costas Kadis is likely to be named commissioner for the Mediterranean and the environment, according to reported leaks published on Friday. The leaks were published ...

People “seem to forget what they said a year ago, two years ago, or three years ago” about the Great Sea Interconnector, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. He was ...

The Paralimni and Deryneia municipality on Friday called on the government to take action after mayor Giorgos Nikolettos and Deryneia deputy mayor Nikos Lillis were both reportedly placed on a ...

Cypriot weightlifter Maria Markou finished in 9th place in the Paralympic Games on Friday, competing in the 61-kilogram category. Markou lifted a total of 95kg in her first lift, though ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said Cyprus “cannot function in 2024 under the terms of 1960” in response to the audit office’s charge that the government’s plans to reform it ...

“Cyprus, do you understand what a compatriot of ours has done?” was the cry from Cyprus’ Paralympic Committee on Friday morning after Karolina Pelendritou won a bronze medal in the ...

The reduction of school bus fares is expected to persuade 2,000 more schoolchildren to travel by bus, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Thursday night. Speaking after a presentation of plans ...

Two-time Fifa world footballer of the year Ronaldinho landed at northern Cyprus’ Ercan (Tymbou) airport on Thursday night. Ronaldinho was pictured making his way through the airport’s arrivals hall ...

The special lane at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point for schoolchildren, teachers and people receiving healthcare to cross from the north is now operational. The government’s humanitarian affairs commissioner ...

The Immovable Property Commission (IPC) has settled a total of 1,840 cases so far, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Thursday. Established in 2005, the IPC handles claims for compensation, restitution ...

Cyprus’ High Commission in London on Thursday announced it is looking to hire a new head of accounts. The successful applicant will be paid £75,400 (€89,417) per year and will spend around 20 ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Thursday announced they had made a second arrest in relation to the finding of 200 kilogrammes of meat which a man was attempting to smuggle from ...

The Cyprus national football team’s upcoming away fixture against Lithuania in the Nations League saw a last-minute change of venue on Thursday, after the pitch at the originally chosen ...

The court case over the death of a Cypriot medical student who was electrocuted during a flood in the Turkish Aegean city of Izmir in July began on Thursday. Ozge ...

Turkish Cypriot travel agencies’ association (Kitsab) chairman Orhan Tolun called for the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport to be treated as a domestic airport by Turkey. His call comes amid ...

The government on Thursday decided to push back its decision to next Tuesday over the regulatory framework of the leg of the Great Sea Interconnector project connecting Cyprus to Crete. ...

Fly tippers in Ayios Epiktitos and Ayios Amvrosios were fined and then made to collect the rubbish they had fly tipped by village police. The villages’ Turkish Cypriot mayor Ceyhun ...

New samples were taken from the wreckage of the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, where 35 Cypriots and 37 others were killed during last year’s earthquakes, as scientific ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Wednesday extolled the virtues of large families at the Nicosia district’s “large families’ celebration”. Speaking to parents who attended the event, she said, “you, ...

The government on Wednesday announced it had revoked the Cypriot citizenship of eight people who were naturalised under Cyprus’ citizenship through investment programme, commonly known as the ‘golden passport’ scheme. ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos on Wednesday hailed the opening of the American University of Beirut’s new campus in his town, describing it as “one of the most important projects” ...

The government on Wednesday approved a bill which will raise state officials’ pension age from 60 to 65. The bill passed through cabinet and will now be sent to parliament for ratification ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a set of bills which, if passed, will change the face of Cyprus’ legal service and audit office. The government says the bills constitute “modernising” reforms, ...