Tom Cleaver

Elia Herodotou was elected as Pera Pedi’s mukhtar at the second attempt on Sunday, after the originally scheduled election on June 9 ended in a tie. Herodotou, 25, won 71 votes, beating ...

A pair of polls carried out in the north show opposition party the CTP to be ahead and to be the largest party in ‘parliament’ in a hypothetical election. One, ...

El-Sen, the employers’ union of the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek, announced on Saturday night they had filed a complaint to the Turkish Cypriot police after police had prevented them ...

The amount invested in Cyprus’ green transition is estimated to reach €3.1 billion by 2030, the finance ministry said on Sunday. They said the investment would be sourced from state funds, European ...

A 49-year-old woman died on Sunday after being involved in a quadbike accident in the Paphos district village of Peyia. The woman was riding a quadbike on a country road ...

The war in Ukraine “must end”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. Speaking at the Ukraine peace summit at the Burgenstock resort in Switzerland, he said “illegality stemming from invasion, ...

The police on Sunday announced that the upcoming week would be an “awareness week” for road safety, with a particular focus on driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. ...

Turkish Cypriots and other Muslims across Cyprus celebrated the beginning of Eid al-Adha, one of the two main festivals on the Muslim calendar, on Sunday. The festival is celebrated during ...

The fire brigade and the electricity authority (EAC) on Sunday found themselves at odds with one another over the cause of a wildfire which broke out near the Nicosia district ...

With the United Kingdom’s general election just three weeks away, British political parties are vying to win the votes of both diaspora Cypriots in the UK and British citizens ...

The families of the 24 Cypriot children who were killed when the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman collapsed travelled to Turkey on Tuesday ahead of the resumption of ...

The met office on Tuesday issued a yellow weather warning for Wednesday afternoon, with temperatures set to reach as high as 41 degrees Celsius inland. The warning will be in place ...

A total of three villages have been evacuated as homes and animals have been engulfed in flames as wildfires raged out of control in the Paphos district on Tuesday. Psathi ...

The election of a mukhtar in the Limassol village of Pera Pedi will be re-run at an as yet undetermined date after Sunday’s election ended in a tie. Elia ...

Turkish Cypriots on Monday started to react to the loss of their sole MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek, who failed to win re-election on Sunday. Among the first to react was journalist ...

The election of social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou to the European parliament is something “we have never seen before”, elections expert Yiannis Mavris said on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

The United States Central Command on Sunday denied that the temporary jetty constructed off the coast of Gaza to facilitate the transfer of humanitarian aid shipped from Cyprus had been ...

In today’s episode, 24-year-old influencer Fidias Panayiotou sent shockwaves through Cypriot and European politics in the European parliament elections, winning just shy of 20 per cent of the vote and ...

Phedonas Phedonos was re-elected as Paphos mayor on Sunday, seeing off a challenge from Diko-backed Evros Loizides. Phedonos won just over 60 per cent of the vote on a high turnout ...

Larnaca sewage board director Angelos Hadjicharalambous has been elected as Larnaca district governor in a landslide victory. He won almost two thirds of the vote, beating outgoing Aradippou mayor Evangelos ...

Former Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos was elected as Famagusta’s district governor on Sunday night. Karousos won 55 per cent of the vote, almost twice as much as his nearest challenger ...

Incumbent Famagusta mayor in exile Simos Ioannou won a second term in office on Sunday, winning just shy of 40 per cent of the vote. His nearest challenger Andreas Vrahimis won 30 ...

Incumbent Larnaca mayor Andreas Vyras was re-elected in a landslide victory on Sunday, winning around two thirds of votes cast in the town. With just shy of 60 per cent of ...

Joseph Violaris was elected as Kyrenia’s mayor in exile on Sunday night, beating his opponent Odysseas Patsalides to win the mayoral seat. Violaris will replace the retiring Rita Elissaiou ...