Tom Cleaver

The accident and emergency departments at the Apollonion hospital in Nicosia and the Ygia polyclinic in Limassol are included in Gesy as of Monday. Their joining of Gesy brings the ...

The Independent Trade Unions’ Federation (Poaso) on Monday called for its workers to receive full payment of the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA). Putting their case forward, they cited “a ...

Higher than usual temperatures are expected across Cyprus all week, according to Met Office director Kleanthis Nicolaides. “There is an area of high pressure in the Eastern Mediterranean at the ...

Work began on the road between Pyla and Arsos on Monday, with crews entering the buffer zone and marking the road’s path on the ground. Two teams of construction ...

Cyprus wants and “can play a mediating role” in de-escalating the ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. He said President Nikos Christodoulides had ...

Winegrowers have received total payouts of over €600,000 from the Directorate General for European Programmes, Coordination and Development (EPDC). The money was sourced entirely from European Union funds and will go ...

Fears the price of olive oil may rise to €15 per litre in the coming months It has been a bad year for olive oil. Global production has halved after the ...

A team of American doctors from Shriners children’s hospitals in the US will begin carrying out operations on children in Cyprus on Tuesday. The commencement of operations was announced ...

Former Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos announced on Friday his intention to run to be the first elected Famagusta Governor. He has called for his party, Disy, to endorse him. “I ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said the government is “not dogmatic” on Friday after reinstating the electricity subsidy on Thursday. Speaking to reporters following a meeting with European Court of Auditors ...

House President Annita Demetriou met with Turkish Cypriot politician Mine Atli on Friday, with both expressing their commitment to a bizonal, bicommunal solution to the Cyprus problem. Atli is the ...

The problem of a bad smell emanating from the Paphos Sewerage Board (Sapa) wastewater treatment plant in Acheleia has been resolved, according to the town’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos. Phedonos, ...

The Cyprus cheesemakers’ association is to hold an extraordinary general meeting on Friday to discuss “measures to be taken” regarding the “critical situation” regarding forthcoming adjustments to the ratio of ...

The headquarters of the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce (Keve) was attacked with red paint on Thursday night. Workers arriving at the building on Friday morning were confronted by the walls, ...

Ed Sheeran is to perform in Cyprus as part of his upcoming world tour. While the exact date is yet to be confirmed, it is expected that he will perform ...

Police investigations into the north’s fake prescription scandal will be completed within 10 days, ‘labour minister’ Sadik Gardiyanoglu said on Thursday. Speaking in a television interview, he said: “Police have ...

The electricity transmission operators of both Cyprus and Greece signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the provision of technical services from Greece to Cyprus in view of the forthcoming EuroAsia ...

In today’s episode, the government announced the reinstatement of the electricity subsidy as part of a raft of measures aimed at helping people through the cost-of-living crisis. Elsewhere, Cyprus ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ Yasemi Ozturk called for the north’s Jewish Centre to be closed on Thursday. Ozturk, who belongs to governing party UBP, said she would contact the relevant ...

Cyprus cheesemakers’ association chairman Marios Constantinou said the Agriculture Ministry has instructed producers to “abolish” goat’s and sheep’s milk halloumi on Thursday. “What we have been told by ...

Three of the suspects in the north’s ongoing “anti-prostitution operation” reappeared in court on Friday, with one released on bail and the other remanded in custody. One of the ...

There are 104 Turkish Cypriots inside Gaza, Turkey’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmet Yildiz said on Thursday. The 104 Turkish Cypriots are among around 700 people waiting to be evacuated to Turkey, he ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ Armagan Candan leapt to the defence of arrested former ‘prime minister’ Sibel Siber on Wednesday. Speaking in a television interview, he said “I have seen with my ...

Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou expressed the importance of managing waste and cleanups on Thursday. She was speaking on the eve of the annual cleanup campaign organised by campaign group “Let’...