Tom Cleaver

Scientists from the Cyens centre of excellence-affiliated software company Periopsis identified a total of 820 illegal rubbish tips between April and July, they announced on Wednesday. The tips were found as ...

Disy MP Savia Orphanidou on Wednesday announced she would forego the civil servant’s pension which she had been receiving. She said her monthly pension of €218.47 would be paid into ...

Two men, aged 34 and 33, were both handed eight-day remands on Wednesday after being accused of having trafficked the 20 people found aboard a migrant boat which had departed Cyprus for Italy ...

Disy leader Annita Demetriou on Wednesday said she does not “wake up for 2028”, when asked about Cyprus’ next presidential elections. Asked by TV channel Sigma if she would run, she ...

The forthcoming Davis Cup tennis matches between Israel and Ukraine will take place at the Herodotou Tennis Academy in Larnaca. Israel had been the designated home team for the fixture, ...

Edek on Wednesday called on the government to convene a meeting with political parties over the Great Sea Interconnector asdiscussions continue with stakeholders about the future of the project. The ...

Discussions regarding the regulatory framework for the Great Sea Interconnector connecting Cyprus to Crete will carry on “for as long as it takes”, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on ...

The full file of the case against Serdal Gunduz, the 30 per cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, will be presented ...

Around 85,000 new voters will be registered when automatic voter registration is introduced, chief returning officer Elikkos Ilias said on Wednesday. In addition, he said, should the government’s plans for ...

Management of the Karpaz Gate Marina near the village of Ayia Triada in the Karpas peninsula has been transferred out of Israeli hands and put under the operation of Turkish ...

No investment has been made in the north’s ports “in 100 years”, the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Monday. Speaking to television channel Kanal T, he said ...

Turkish Cypriots’ credit card debt doubled within the space of a year between June 2023 and June this year, according to figures released by the north’s central bank on Tuesday. ...

The European Commission on Tuesday refuted Cypriot cattle breeders’ assertions that it was offering preferential treatment to Turkish Cypriot halloumi producers. The cattle breeders’ coordinating committee expressed fury on Monday ...

The University of Cyprus’ expertise “will be utilised” when Cyprus holds the European Council’s rotating presidency in 2026, European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna said on Tuesday. Speaking after a ...

Cyprus and the United States will “continue to develop” their bilateral cooperation in the field of defence, US Assistant Secretary of Defence for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander said on ...

European Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides on Tuesday announced a €2 million project aimed at “tackling” long Covid in the European Union. The European Commission said the project will focus on ...

A 27-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Monday after having allegedly been hunting birds in an area where hunting is prohibited. Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday to meet the country’s President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The pair will discuss matters including ...

Parties and deputies tabled 11 different bills at the House finance committee on Monday, all aimed at regulating the payment of multiple pensions to state officials. Of those bills, two were ...

Cyprus’ holding of the European Council’s rotating presidency “will involve all the island’s districts”, European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna said on Monday. Speaking after a meeting with ...

A Turkish Cypriot woman was arrested at Paphos airport after being found with almost 40kg of tobacco products she had brought from the north, the customs department said on Monday. ...

A 27-year-old Syrian national was sentenced on Monday to two months in prison in the north for having illegally crossed the Green Line, after the Turkish Cypriot police found he ...

A seven-metre statue of a winegrower was on Monday placed in its traditional spot in Limassol’s municipal garden ahead of the city’s 63rd Wine Festival. The festival is ...

Israeli businessman Simon Aykut, 73, will remain in custody until Wednesday when a bail hearing will take place the Nicosia Criminal Court decided on Monday. Aykut, who holds Portuguese, Israeli, and ...