Tom Cleaver

The government’s goal is to create a “fully digitised state”, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Saturday. Speaking at a business conference, he said a fully digitised state would “...

People smugglers “are advertising voyages to Cyprus on social media”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Saturday. Speaking to mukhtars, he said the phenomenon of smugglers setting sail from Lebanon ...

A total of 13 children were arrested and accused in writing in Limassol on Friday night after having illegally lit bonfires. The bonfires form part of the Cypriot Easter tradition of “...

The government is “addressing” increases in the retail price of fuel, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Saturday. He said the matter will be addressed with “targeted measures”, as well ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos formally announced on Friday night the beginning of his campaign for re-election. In an event attended by former President Nicos Anastasiades and the leaders of Disy ...

The Larnaca municipality is taking the fight to mosquitoes, it said on Saturday, continuing its inspections and spraying of areas known to have high volumes of the insect. It said ...

A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a mobile traffic camera van near Limassol on Friday night, police said. The incident occurred in the Kato Polemidia area at around 9.20pm. There ...

Police have said they believe a fire which broke out at a kindergarten in Nicosia’s old town on Friday night was an act of “juvenile delinquency”. The fire broke ...

Plans are afoot to abolish the practice of paying multiple pensions to government officials, it was revealed on Friday. Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said the government “is determined to continue ...

Limassol’s central Anexartisias street will become a one-way street from the end of 2025, the city’s council decided on Thursday. Preparations for the road to become a one-way street ...

A total of four migrant boats were spotted off the coast of Cape Greco at around midday on Friday, according to reports. The first was brought ashore at the Golden ...

There is an “obvious” risk of fire in the Geri – Dali industrial area, House industry committee chairman Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), he ...

Shots were fired at a used car dealership in Limassol on Friday morning. Police rushed to the scene and are, according to the latest reports, attempting to identify the shooters. ...

Firefighters’ association Sypyk on Friday demanded the fire brigade pay its frontline employees an extra allowance due to the dangerous nature of their job. Sypyk chairman said the fire brigade ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said in an interview with British newspaper the Daily Telegraph that “one tiny mistake” could turn Cyprus into “a new Gaza”. He said, “a mistake ...

In today’s episode, €2.5 billion in taxes is owed to the state. Meanwhile, Cyprus is looking for “immediate solutions” to deal with the migration crisis, House President Annita Demetriou told ...

The temporary jetty which is being constructed off the coast of Gaza to facilitate the receipt of aid under Cyprus’ Amalthea plan “will be completed within 15 days”, it was learned ...

A barber shop in Paphos was targeted in an arson attack on Thursday night. A fire broke out in the shop at around 10.30pm, and while the fire brigade rushed ...

Police on Friday announced the arrest of two men in connection with the theft of copper pipes and various other tools from two apartment buildings in the Nicosia district. The ...

The DP, the second-largest party in the north’s three-party ruling coalition, is considering leaving the ‘government’, it was learned on Thursday. The party’s congress is to convene on ...

A monument to the Cypriot mule corps, which fought on the side of the British during the first and second world wars, was unveiled at the Karafa bastion of Nicosia’...

More than €8 billion of major developments have been planned to be carried out in Cyprus, the Association of Large Investment Projects’ chairman Andreas Demetriades said on Thursday. Demetriades was speaking ...

Trade unions on Thursday raised the alarm over two small electrical explosions occurring at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport in recent weeks. On March 13 a worker from a subcontracted ...

A preschool road safety park was officially opened in the Famagusta district town of Sotira on Thursday. The park was opened by Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, with the aim of ...