Tom Cleaver

Two candidates are to stand to become the Maronite Cypriot community’s non-voting representative in parliament at the forthcoming election. Marios Mavrides, 63, who had been a voting MP for Disy ...

Only one Armenian Cypriot is standing for election to become the community’s non-voting representative in the new parliament. Vartkes Mahdessian, 76, has been the community’s representative in the House ...

Only one Latin Cypriot is standing for election to become the community’s non-voting representative in the new parliament. Antonella Lydia Mantovani, 54, has been the community’s representative in the ...

A single candidate registered on behalf of the Patriotic Lacedaemonian Movement party on Wednesday morning. Alexia Hadjichristoforou is the party’s sole candidate, and is standing for election in the ...

Andreas Christophi, the leader of the Agronomos party, which markets itself as a party for farmers, on Wednesday filed his candidacy for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the Limassol district. “...

Andreas Themistocleous, the leader of the Democratic National Movement (DEK), on Wednesday filed his candidacy at the top of his party’s ballot in the Limassol district. “For DEK, today ...

Communications professional Larry Fergeson on Wednesday morning decided at the last minute not to stand in the forthcoming parliamentary elections. He had been given a timeslot to register his candidacy ...

Dipa leader Marios Garoyian on Wednesday morning accompanied his party’s candidates to register their candidacies in the Nicosia district, though after having spent 15 of the last 20 years as an ...

Edek leader Nikos Anastasiou on Wednesday presented his party’s candidates in the Nicosia district, hailing the diversity of their ballot. “Edek is proud because 25 per cent of our candidates ...

Hunters’ Movement leader Nicolas Prodromou on Wednesday morning filed his candidacy for the forthcoming elections at the top of his party’s ballot in the Famagusta district. He said his ...

Candidates from the Sikou Pano! (Get Up!) party on Wednesday morning registered their candidacies for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the Nicosia district, with both the party’s founder and ...

Former bar association chairman Christos Clerides on Wednesday morning filed his candidacy in the Nicosia district at the top of the ballot of Demal (Democratic Change), the party he founded ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Wednesday morning filed his candidacy for the forthcoming parliamentary elections at the top of his party’s ballot in the Nicosia district. “Today, we stand ...

Ecologists’ Movement leader Stavros Papadouris on Wednesday morning filed his candidacy for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Limassol, having joined candidates from his party in the Nicosia district earlier in ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Wednesday morning filed his candidacy for the forthcoming parliamentary elections at the top of his party’s ballot in the Nicosia district. “The parliamentary elections ...

Almost 750 people were expected to file candidacies for the forthcoming parliamentary elections on Wednesday, as official registrations opened for those vying to win one of the 56 seats in the House. ...

An 81-year-old male prisoner died in hospital on Tuesday night, the justice ministry announced on Wednesday. The ministry said the man had been “facing serious health problems” prior to his ...

Wednesday’s weather is expected to be mostly clear across most of the island, though clouds are expected to gather in the afternoon and possibly produce isolated pockets of rain, ...

Farmers will once again block the Rizoelia roundabout, which sits at the intersection of the motorway connecting Larnaca and Nicosia, and the motorway connecting Larnaca and Ayia Napa, on Friday, ...

Political and legal figures weighed in on Tuesday over a law passed by the Turkish Cypriot legislature on Monday night which criminalised the naming of high-profile individuals who appear in ...

Turkish opposition party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Tuesday called on Turkic states to recognise northern Cyprus as an independent country, while also lamenting the fact that Syrian President Ahmed ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Tuesday met outgoing United States ambassador in Nicosia Julie Davis, who resigned from the US state department last month. Erhurman’s office announced that ...

A joint working group to combat the ongoing outbreak of foot and mouth disease is to be created by the governments of Cyprus and Greece, it was announced on Tuesday. ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou and Greek Food Minister Margaritis Schinas on Tuesday discussed the outbreaks of foot and mouth disease which she said have “plagued” both countries in recent months. ...