Tom Cleaver

The Swiss government on Wednesday announced it had gifted Cyprus CHF1.05 million (€1.1m) for the construction of a voluntary return centre for migrants. The centre will be operated by the ...

The Legal Service and the Anti-Corruption Authority found themselves embroiled in conflict with one another on Wednesday over the former’s decision not to prosecute former police drug squad chief ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou kicked off Forest Protection Week at a ceremony at the Environmental information centre at the Athalassa forest park. The aim of the week is to raise ...

A woman has died in the north after being given the wrong type of blood during a transfusion. The woman was named as 56-year-old Ayla Dalgalan, a retired teacher from ...

An Israeli attack on the southern Gazan town of Rafah “cannot happen”, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Monday. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Canadian counterpart Melanie ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday he and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “obviously disagree” on the issue of the Cyprus problem, but that “only dialogue can be ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar is “running away from the fight” for Turkish Cypriots’ rights, opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on Monday. “The Turkish Cypriot side, which has ...

Russians in Cyprus are set to protest outside their own country’s embassy on Monday over an explosion in an apartment building in the Russian city of Belgorod which they ...

The court of appeal on Monday reduced the sentence handed down to a convicted paedophile by six months. The court found that the court of first instance had “incorrectly evaluated” ...

One of the walls at the Bank of Cyprus oncology centre has been transformed into a view of nature for the seventh year as part of its Wall Gallery platform. ...

Famagusta is currently suffering a water shortage due to a malfunction in the pipe which connects the town with the Panagra reservoir, the town’s Turkish Cypriot mayor Suleyman Ulucay ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou extolled the virtues of roses at the village of Agros’ 16th Rose Festival on Saturday. She described the festival as “a celebration which aims to highlight ...

The two monks from the Osiou Avakoum monastery who are under investigation for alleged money laundering and sexual activity with each other were paid their salaries, their lawyers said on ...

The murder of Thanasis Nicolaou “proved the existence of the deep state”, the Green Party said on Saturday. They said his mother Andriana Nicolaou was “finally vindicated” by the Limassol ...

The trophy and the mascot of this year’s European under 17 football championship were unveiled in Larnaca on Saturday. Speaking at the presentation, Cyprus Football Association (CFA) chairman George Koumas ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and his predecessor Mustafa Akinci exchanged barbed statements over their respective stances on the Cyprus problem on Friday and Saturday. Akinci began the tit-for-tat, making ...

Turkish Cypriot doctors on Saturday warned of unlicenced individuals performing hair transplants in the north. According to the Cyprus Turkish medical association (KTTB), police on Friday carried out a raid ...

Three people from Paphos who were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of having carried out 20 burglaries were handed eight-day remands on Saturday. The trio, a 36-year-old woman and two men ...

Five people were arrested in Paphos on Friday night following an incident involving the throwing of rocks and pieces of wood due to a reported financial dispute. A policeman on ...

An 82-year-old man from Paphos was remanded in custody for six days on Saturday after having been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The incident took place in the early ...

Nurses are “often treated with contempt”, trade union Pasydy’s nursing branch said on Friday. In a statement released ahead of International Nurses Day on Sunday, the union said nurses ...

Professional soldiers received a pay rise after cabinet approved a proposal made by Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Friday. They will now be on the public sector A2-A5-A7 ...

Cyprus has the highest rate of healthcare-associated infections of any country in the European Union, according to a report published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). ...

The cost of coffee fell in Cyprus between March 2023 and March 2024, according to the European Union’s statistical service Eurostat. On average, coffee cost 2.3 per cent less in March this ...