Tom Cleaver

Acting Paphos mayor Angelos Onisiforou on Tuesday announced that he had asked auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou to carry out an audit of the municipality. “I informed the auditor-general that I have ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday made overtures to United States President Donald Trump to pay a visit to Cyprus. “He would be the first American president. We had vice ...

The audit office on Tuesday released a report questioning the validity of the sale of property by an unnamed “well-known businessman” for €8.5 million less than the property’s originally agreed ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Tuesday said his country needs to find a way to “lift the reservations” of the Greek Cypriots, among others, if it wishes to strengthen ...

The United Nations is hoping for new crossing points to open between Cyprus’ two sides “as soon as possible”, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Monday. He told ...

Defence ministry permanent secretary Andreas Kountouris on Monday attended a ceremony to mark the 77th anniversary of the closure of the last of the detention camps set up by the ...

European Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos on Monday held a telephone call with Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos following her trip to Turkey last week. According to the foreign ministry, the pair ...

Portugal’s socialist president-elect Antonio Jose Seguro won three quarters of votes cast by Portuguese nationals in Cyprus at the weekend’s presidential election. In total, Seguro won 12 votes, with ...

Yusuf Alemdar, the mayor of Turkey’s Sakarya municipality, which is located on the country’s Black Sea coast, lied about having obtained a degree in Cyprus, according to reports ...

Bilal Balci, a former municipal civil engineer at Turkey’s Adiyaman municipality, who was last month handed a ten-year suspended prison sentence and released on bail conditions for his role ...

Anastasia Routi-Eleftheriadi was on Monday appointed as the Paphos municipality’s interim municipal secretary as the town’s council returns to work following the suspension of mayor Phedonas Phedonos last ...

The Republic of Cyprus is obliged to agree to transfer Israeli prisoner Simon Aykut to the country of which he holds citizenship to serve out the remainder of his sentence, ...

Cyprus can “act as a facilitator” to help strengthen relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom, European Fisheries Commissioner Costas Kadis said. “Cyprus and the UK have a ...

European Fisheries Commissioner Costas Kadis has pledged that the European Union will put forward two new strategies for coastal communities and islands during Cyprus’ six-month term as the holder of ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Saturday planted trees near Nicosia’s Kaloyeros river, saying that “actions such as this send a substantial message for the protection of the environment”. “Urban ...

The 63-year-old man who died in the central prison on Friday choked on his food, according to the results of an autopsy carried out on Saturday. The autopsy was carried ...

Berlin-based credit rating agency Scope on Saturday announced that it had upgraded Cyprus’ long-term credit rating from ‘A-’ to ‘A’. In justifying its decision, it cited a “significant reduction” of ...

A police officer was headbutted by an inmate of the Menoyia detention centre who had been taken to the Larnaca general hospital, Larnaca police spokesman Spyros Chrysostomou said on Saturday. ...

The government is considering opening a polling station in Brussels for May’s parliamentary election, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. He told the Cyprus News Agency ...

The Paphos town council will hold an extraordinary session on Monday to decide on its next steps, with the post of municipal secretary remaining vacant. Paphos has been without a ...

The United Kingdom has deployed six more fighter jets to its air force base in Akrotiri, according to reports on Saturday, with fears growing that the United States may launch ...

A total of 837 Turkish Cypriots are registered to vote in May’s parliamentary election, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. That figure is an increase of three ...

More than half a million people are registered to vote in May’s parliamentary election, interior ministry permanent secretary Elikkos Elia said on Saturday. He told the Cyprus News Agency ...

Workers at Ektam, the north’s producer of Pepsi and other well-known soft drinks, have gone on a 24-hour strike, claiming that the company has deprived them of the right ...