Tom Cleaver

The government is working towards making Cyprus energy independent, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Tuesday. “The autonomy of a state is not only related with its finds and its ...

Two women suffered broken bones after jumping from an apartment balcony during a police drugs raid in Kyrenia on Monday night. Five women, aged between 23 and 27, were inside the apartment ...

The 24-hour low-wage civil servants’ strike is set to go ahead on Wednesday, despite its trade union Pasydy insisting on continuing its dialogue with the finance ministry. Low-wage civil servants ...

Electricity tariffs in the north are set to increase by a third from Wednesday, following an announcement from north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek. For residential properties paying the flat-rate tariff, ...

A branch of employees from the social insurance services are holding a 24-hour warning strike on Tuesday. According to a statement, the strike is taking place because of disagreements following ...

Two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’ threw order papers at each other in ‘parliament’ on Monday as tensions rose in a debate over a budget for the Cyprus Turkish Dairy Industry Institution (...

The Cyprus Turkish Medical Association (KTTB) said on Monday it had received numerous complaints regarding cosmetic procedures performed by unqualified people. They said the complaints pertained to procedures such as ...

Construction of the new Morphou hospital will be completed in 2024, according to the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel. Ustel visited Morphou on Monday and said “we will put out ...

Children who are not Greek Cypriots are more likely to be bullied in schools, according to the latest results of the government’s school violence survey. The results of the ...

British Special Forces troops are currently in Cyprus on standby for developments in Gaza and the wider region, according to media reports in the United Kingdom. Newspaper The Sun said ...

A series of events have been planned to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Deaf School. The events were announced on Monday by Deaf School Welfare Fund ...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in Cyprus, with 450 cases recorded per year, according to the Cyprus Cancer Registry. In addition, it is the second most common ...

Two men were arrested on Sunday in the village of Syrianochori after stealing 260 kilograms of oranges from an orange grove. The men, aged 47 and 45, were found to have been picking ...

Celebrations took place across the north on Sunday for the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey. Political leaders, including Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar, his predecessor ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli hit a pedestrian with his car on Saturday, it later emerged. Arikli was driving his own car near the Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital ...

Low-wage civil servants announced on Saturday their intention to strike on Wednesday, demanding increases in pay. The move was made following a consultation with Central government workers’ union Pasydy on ...

Oxi Day was celebrated on Saturday morning with a parade through the streets of Cyprus’ towns and cities. Schoolchildren, soldiers and others in traditional Greek dress walked to the sound ...

A small aircraft crashed in the village of Marki, in the Nicosia district, on Saturday morning. The Larnaca Search and Rescue Centre said they received information about the crash at ...

Cyprus abstained on Friday night from a United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution calling for a “sustained humanitarian truce in the Middle East”. The resolution was adopted by ...

A 38-year-old man died on Friday evening after being involved in a bicycle crash in the Paphos district. The man, named as Panayiotis Savva, was riding his bicycle on the ...

Four ambulances were destroyed by a fire which broke out at the old Larnaca hospital in the early hours of Saturday morning. According to the State Health Services (Okypy)’s ...

By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas Hundreds of Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of northern Nicosia on Friday evening in a mass anti-‘government’ protest. The protest was general ...

Hellenic Bank employees announced on Friday they are to stage a three-hour walkout on November 6. The move was announced by employees’ union Etyk, which condemned the “provocative behaviour” of the ...

Cultural heritage “must be passed down from generation to generation”, Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou said on Friday. Kassianidou was speaking at an event honouring the Fervolites lace held by ...