Tom Cleaver

Health Minister Popi Kanari has thrown her support behind a plan to transfer the process of sending patients abroad to the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO). Speaking after a meeting of ...

Man also fined for smuggling yoghurt A fine of €15,000 was imposed on a 69-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman who were found in possession of untaxed tobacco products on Thursday. ...

A man has been sentenced to ten months in jail in the north for escaping from a Covid-19 quarantine hotel. The man, named as Duran Gul, escaped from the Mavi ...

A fire broke out at a factory in the Dali industrial area on Friday. Fire brigade spokesman Andreas Kettis said the fire is fully under control and that everyone who ...

Russian and Israeli investments in property in the north are continuing with seemingly no let-up in sight. The area of Long Beach, just outside the sleepy village of Trikomo, has ...

A man appeared in court in Morphou on Friday after being arrested for challenging the police to a duel. The man was arrested on charges of being drunk and disorderly, ...

The small increase in Covid-19 cases seen during the week beginning August 14 is “not alarming”, state medical services director Elisavet Constantinou said on Friday. Constantinou, who also sits on the ...

A solution has been found to the controversial plan to create a road between Pyla and Arsos, Politis newspaper said on Friday. The daily claims the meetings held between the ...

Sixteen-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur, who was murdered in January saw her killer “as a brother”, according to testimonies heard in court on Thursday. In the latest hearing ...

An “explosive device” detonated at around 3:30am in a car in the Ayios Spyridonas neighbourhood of Limassol on Friday. The car belonged to a 28-year-old man. Police say they became ...

The defence ministry is accepting applications for new contract soldiers, with applications open online through the government’s online portal until September 22. Applicants must be registered and authenticated users on ...

Police in Paphos arrested a 27-year-old man on Thursday evening in relation to an investigation into an alleged kidnapping which reportedly took place during the troubles seen in Chlorakas earlier ...

Two men “attacked and beat” police in Larnaca while being arrested in connection with multiple burglaries on Thursday evening. The pair attempted to escape and police fired warning shots, before ...

The British bases inaugurated 16 new police officers in a ceremony in Dhekelia. The ceremony was attended by bases commander Air Vice Marshal Peter Squires, and saw the new recruits take ...

There were tense scenes outside the north’s ‘education ministry’ building on Thursday as trade unions staged a protest against controversial “non-secular” new textbooks. ‘Education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu was booed ...

The 170 passengers and six crew who had been “stranded” in Italy since Tuesday after a Cyprus Airways aeroplane experienced a technical problem are expected to return to Cyprus at around 6...

Cyprus has the “second-best results in the world” regarding the search for missing persons, according to the outgoing third member of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) Paul-Henri Arni. Speaking ...

British UN peacekeepers are set to undertake 24 workouts in 24 hours to raise funds for the Nicosia dog shelter on September 8. A number of the peacekeepers volunteer at the shelter during ...

The government is evaluating a proposal to bring the process of sending patients abroad for treatment under the umbrella of Gesy. According to health ministry spokesman Dimitris Constantinou, the details ...

The tender for the installation of smart traffic lights will be announced on October 15, according to Transport minister Alexis Vafeades. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), he said he ...

The scene in Chlorakas, as well as in the neighbouring villages of Emba and Tremithousa, is calm, according to the police. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), police press ...

A 22-year-old Syrian national has been arrested in Paphos for “causing and inciting violence” after posting violent imagery onto his social media accounts. Testimony emerged against the man during an ...

Central Nicosia’s Eleftheria square will be lit up lilac on Thursday evening to commemorate International overdose awareness day. The initiative has been jointly organised by the Cyprus Addiction Treatment ...

A 49-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday morning after allegedly stabbing another woman of the same age on a street in Limassol on Tuesday night. She was taken into custody ...