Tom Cleaver

People leaving Lebanon continued to arrive in Cyprus on Thursday, with flights landing at Larnaca airport and boats continuing to dock at the marinas in Larnaca and Ayia Napa as ...

Digital identity cards issued by the Republic of Cyprus can be used to sign documents by way of an “e-signature” from the moment at which they are issued, Research Deputy ...

Eight people in the Paphos and Limassol districts were arrested on suspicion of having funded an unnamed terrorist organisation, police spokesman Christos Andreou confirmed on Thursday. Later, a court ordered ...

Zisan Saltukhan, the mother of 16-year-old Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur, who was murdered in January last year, on Thursday demanded the “harshest punishment” for her daughter’s killer. Speaking ...

Police in the British bases arrested two people whom they suspect of having engaged in illegal gambling activities, they announced on Thursday. They said the arrests took place in the ...

Unhealthy working environments “put workers’ mental health at risk”, the Cyprus Psychologists’ Association said on Thursday. In a statement released to coincide with World Mental Health Day, which takes place ...

Police in Paphos on Thursday warned that roads will be closed on Friday due to the holding of the summit of the ‘Med9’ – a collective of the European Union’s ...

A 31-year-old man has died after being run over in Aradippou on Wednesday evening. According to police, the man, named as Polish national Blazej Jerzy Rejnowski, was hit by a ...

As the ‘parliamentary’ deadlock in the north continued into a third day with no ‘parliament speaker’ having been elected and ‘parliament’ having been effectively closed since Monday night, Turkish Cypriot ...

More than 2,000 people, citizens of 20 different countries, have now arrived in Cyprus as part of assisted departures to remove people from Lebanon as the political situation continues to deteriorate, government ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved the purchase of 100,000 digital identity cards, Research Deputy Minister Nikodemos Damianou said. He said the first 30,000 identity cards will be made available free of charge to ...

Trade union Pasydy on Wednesday said civil servants are “under attack” as the debate regarding a planned pay rise rumbles on. They said the agreement they had reached with the ...

The director of a hotel in the Kyrenia district was released on bail on Wednesday after being arrested in connection with the death of a hotel worker who was electrocuted. ...

resident Nikos Christodoulides and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi “underlined the need” for the ongoing crisis in the Middle East to be de-escalated during a telephone call, government spokesman ...

The Paphos municipality on Wednesday announced it had outlawed the use of scooters on public roads within the town’s municipal boundaries. The ban applies to all roads except for ...

The second day of ‘parliamentary’ deadlock in the north on Tuesday ended with no progress being made and its lame duck ‘speaker’ Zorlu Tore being taken to hospital. Tore was ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ was in crisis on Monday night after spending all day failing to elect a ‘speaker’. The ‘speakership’ was up for re-election following the beginning of a ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday said his “long term goal” is to demolish some buildings in Varosha and rebuild them with the aim of boosting the north’s ...

A small crowd of pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria square on Monday evening. The group had gathered to mark the first anniversary of October 7, when insurgent group ...

Limassol district court issued five-day remand orders against two people, aged 21 and 19, who were arrested in connection with the attack and robbery on Saturday evening against two delivery drivers in ...

A 24-year-old food delivery worker was remanded in custody for four days by the Limassol district court on charges related to illegal possession of drugs, the distribution of counterfeit currency ...

The use of tools to find or pick mushrooms is prohibited, the forestry department said on Monday ahead of the mushroom picking season. Those caught using tools to find or ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is in a “position of strength” ahead of his informal dinner with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said ...

The government aims to bring a bill to reform pensions before cabinet by the end of 2025, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Monday. Speaking after a meeting with the labour ...