Tom Cleaver

The number of new asylum applications in Cyprus in May was down 61 per cent compared to the same months last year, according to the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat. ...

A report into the “multi-year delay” in installing lifts in government-owned apartment buildings has been released by Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides. The report highlights the impact on elderly ...

Three political parties have released statements calling on the government to reinstate the fuel subsidy that was scrapped on July 1, causing an 8.3 cent per litre price rise for consumers. Disy ...

Public sector workers in the north are set to work the same hours all year round, after a bill was unanimously passed in ‘parliament’ on Friday. Pending assent from Turkish ...

Medical equipment is set to be donated to the Makarios hospital’s paediatric clinic by the Australian Hellenic medical charity. The charity, operating alongside the Cypriot community of Adelaide, announced ...

The picnic site in the village of Vouno was sealed off by the Dikomo municipality on Friday in an ongoing spat regarding an “unauthorised” building on the site. According to ...

Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul issued a warning to people illegally taking water from the town’s supply on Friday. Senkul said there is a difference of about 250 thousand tonnes between ...

Former President Nicos Anastasiades hosted an official dinner for United States senator Robert Menendez on Thursday evening at his home in Limassol. The dinner, held in the garden of Anastasiades’ ...

A 29-year-old man was arrested at Paphos airport on Thursday after attempting to depart with a counterfeit Czech identity card. Police said the man presented himself at the airport’s ...

Two cases of deaths of national guard soldiers in the line of duty have been referred to the courts. The cases involve the deaths of Captain Xanthos Kyriacou, who was ...

A 36-year-old man was sentenced to 22 months in prison in Famagusta on Thursday for “assisting the illegal entry of persons” into Cyprus. In addition to the first charge, he was ...

A total of 6,133 repatriations of third country nationals have taken place this year, according to figures released by the police on Friday. Of those repatriations, 1,326 cases concerned the forced returns ...

New laws are being touted with the aim of cracking down on illegal gyms and unqualified gym staff. The laws, which have been suggested by the Cyprus Sports Association (KOA), ...

British base police found an improvised explosive device during a search of residential properties in the village of Trachoni in the Akrotiri base area. Bomb defusal experts were called to ...

A company by the name of S. E. Sakhi auto trading co received a fine of €12,000 at the Nicosia district court on Thursday for “violating the provisions of the legislation ...

Three kilograms of cannabis were found inside cereal boxes by police at Larnaca airport, while police in Paphos arrested a man who attempted to take receipt of the package. According ...

The tender for the creation of a new thalassaemia centre at the Makarios hospital has been announced by the government. The centre will cost over €5 million and will take 18 months ...

Age limits for the HPV vaccine, known as Gardasil, are to be changed following a decision from the National vaccination advisory committee. New guidelines have been set for the vaccine ...

A total of 246 people visited Nicosia’s accident and emergency department in the space of just 24 hours on August 13, a sharp increase on usual figures, it emerged on Thursday. According ...

The government is “closely monitoring” the situation in Pyla, according to its spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis. He added that President Nikos Christodoulides and the Cypriot foreign minister were “constantly making diplomatic ...

Trade union Isotita has called on Finance Minister Makis Keravnos to reduce taxation on fuel, in a strongly worded open letter sent on Thursday. They said fuel is a “major ...

The trial of Sefer Bugra Altundag, who stands accused of murdering 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur in January, began in Trikomo on Wednesday. The trial had been adjourned ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met with representatives of multiple Cypriot diaspora groups at the Presidential palace on Wednesday evening. In attendance at the meeting were delegates from the World federation of ...

The Geroskipou municipality has “no intention of discussing the possibility” of converting a former military in the base to be used as a reception centre for migrants, the village’s ...