Tom Cleaver

There are between 600 and 800 deaths in Cyprus per year due to poor air quality, Green MP Charalambos Theopemptou said on Monday. He was citing European Environment Agency figures at a ...

A 21-year-old woman was arrested at Larnaca airport on Monday after a total of 16 kilograms of cannabis were found in her luggage. The woman had arrived at Larnaca on an ...

A 24-year-old man was airlifted after being injured on the rocks in the sea caves in Paphos on Sunday. According to Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou, the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that Cyprus “cannot accept any more Syrian refugees”. In an interview with the Editor Network Germany (RND), he said “we are not in a ...

A man accused of stealing a mobile phone and a laptop claimed in court on Sunday to be an agent of a “Turkish hacker group”. The man, who allegedly committed ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos travelled to Luxembourg on Friday to meet with counterparts from the European Union and Gulf states. On his agenda is the European Union’s foreign affairs ...

Construction work on Larnaca’s marina and port will begin in June, the town’s municipality said on Sunday. A meeting of the Larnaca town and district development committee held ...

A man and a woman, aged 31 and 25 years old, were arrested on Saturday after having allegedly robbed a kiosk near Morphou. The robbery had taken place at around 5pm, with ...

President Nikos Christodoulides’ stance on the Cyprus problem has “not yielded any substantial results”, Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou said on Sunday. Speaking at an event to commemorate two men who ...

Concerns were raised over the weekend over Cyprus’ burgeoning porn industry, with an investigation set to be launched by parliament. Akel MP Nikos Kettiros told newspaper Politis on Saturday that ...

Deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides on Sunday called for an independent investigation into auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides. In an interview with newspaper Kathimerini, he said “any sane thinking person would demand to ...

United Nations Envoy Maria Angela Holguin will return to Cyprus at the beginning of May, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. Speaking to journalists on the matter, he said ...

Hundreds of people marched across northern Nicosia on Friday night to demand justice for the 24 Cypriot children who were killed when the hotel they were staying in in Turkey collapsed ...

There is a “51 per cent chance” of ‘parliamentary’ elections taking place in the north within the next year, ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Friday. Speaking to Kibris Postasi TV, ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Friday stressed the importance of data protection for internet users. Speaking at a prize-giving ceremony for a painting competition, she said the protection of personal ...

The government is exploring ways to strengthen its framework to protect the elderly from abuse, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Thursday. Speaking following a meeting with Third age observatory ...

The success of Gesy requires the fruitful contribution of all involved, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Friday. Speaking at the opening of a nursing and midwifery conference, he pointed ...

Disy and Diko on Thursday submitted a joint proposal which would allow government officials to renounce their multiple pensions. The proposal would allow those appointed or elected to a public ...

A 22-year-old man from Paralimni was arrested on Thursday after driving at 106kph in a housing estate. The speed limit on the road on which he was driving was 50kph, ...

There is “no evidence” of missiles being shipped from Qatar to Israel via Cyprus, presidential press office director Victor Papadopoulos said on Friday. Speaking on CyBC radio, he said “no ...

A total of 1,461 objections filed regarding the registration of voters for June’s elections were accepted, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elias said on Friday. He explained that a total ...

A 22-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Thursday afternoon after assaulting a police officer and committing “various traffic violations”. Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said the ...

In today’s episode, the European Council reaffirmed its commitment to a bizonal bicommunal federal solution to the Cyprus problem. Meanwhile, the House interior committee called on the government to “...

The European Union should “stop being a slave to the Greek Cypriot side”, Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Thursday evening. Tatar was reacting to the outcome of this ...