Tom Cleaver

A 40-year-old man who had been arrested in Kioneli after having let off 17 fireworks inside a house in which he was staying as a guest had also smuggled a total ...

The historic Lefka Gazi high school is set to begin its 75th year with classes taking place in portacabins, Lefka tourism association chairman Hasan Karlitas said. A total of 21 portacabins ...

Two men, aged 20 years old and 18 years old, appeared in court in Limassol on Friday after having been arrested on suspicion of having assaulted and robbed a delivery driver. The ...

Hammer thrower Iosif Kesides won Cyprus’ first ever World under-20 athletics championships gold medal on Thursday night. Kesidis, a native of Paphos, put on a dominating display in Peru’s ...

The customs department on Friday announced it had seized over 10,000 counterfeit items during raids carried out on four properties in Protaras on Thursday night, among them a number of Barbie-branded ...

A 37-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Thursday night after having been found in possession of tools which could have been used to perform a break-in. Paphos police’s ...

Police in Paphos on Friday said they had launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the recovery of a dead body from the sea near the village of Peyia. The ...

The north’s ‘tourism minister’ Fikri Ataoglu on Thursday implored Turkish holidaymakers to choose to travel to the north instead of to the Greek islands for their holidays. Speaking to ...

A pitbull which mauled its owner was shot dead by its owner’s neighbour on Wednesday night. The dog’s owner, aged 61 years old, was reportedly sitting in his garden ...

Maintenance work at the Saint Charalambos church near the Famagusta village of Akanthou has been completed, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Sotos Ktoris said on Thursday. The church ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Thursday discussed ways to “speed up” the exploitation of natural gas discoveries in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) with Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi. ...

The incident involving the transfer of a six-month-old baby with a head injury from the Paphos general hospital to a private hospital in Limassol after the computed tomography (CT) scanner ...

The government on Thursday lifted the last remaining Covid-19 restrictions, Health Minister Michael Damianos said. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, he said people would no longer be required ...

The government should use taxpayers’ money to support sports clubs outside of football, the Famagusta Nautical Club said on Thursday. Reacting to the planned submission of a bill to parliament ...

Cabinet on Thursday approved a bill which will create the role of a “patient advocate”, Health Minister Michael Damianos said. Speaking after the meeting, he said there had been a “...

Major general Neofytos Pachoulides was on Thursday sworn in as the national guard’s new deputy chief. His swearing in took place at a ceremony at the Presidential palace in ...

Another delivery driver was attacked while at work in Limassol on Wednesday. Limassol police spokesman Lefteris Kyriakou told the Cyprus Mail that the incident had taken place at around 3pm. ...

There are “projects” in the pipeline over the maintenance and restoration of the historic Saint Phanourios cave near the Kyrenia district village of Ayios Georgios, the bicommunal Technical Committee on ...

A man who was arrested on Sunday after having handed himself in to the Turkish Cypriot police after he illegally crossed from the Republic to the north was jailed for ...

A total of 100 people who were revealed to have been living in squalor in a camp near Morphou filed reports to the Turkish Cypriot police that they had been trafficked, ...

The government is “examining the possibility” of declassifying Cyprus’ energy market from its current status as “emergent”, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Wednesday. Cyprus’ energy market is currently classified ...

Cyprus’ authorities “have not seen” the financing plan for the Great Sea Interconnector project, the finance ministry’s permanent secretary George Panteli said on Wednesday. Speaking at an extraordinary meeting ...

By Tom Cleaver The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek paid the Republic’s electricity authority (EAC) a total of $2 million (€1.8m) for the supply of electricity during the month of ...

A total of 132 chickens were killed after being attacked by dogs in a chicken coop near Lapithos, the Turkish Cypriot police announced on Wednesday. The incident took place at around 7.30...