Tom Cleaver

Maintenance work at the Saint Charalambos church near the Famagusta village of Akanthou has been completed, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Sotos Ktoris said on Thursday. The church ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Thursday discussed ways to “speed up” the exploitation of natural gas discoveries in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) with Egypt’s Petroleum Minister Karim Badawi. ...

The incident involving the transfer of a six-month-old baby with a head injury from the Paphos general hospital to a private hospital in Limassol after the computed tomography (CT) scanner ...

The government on Thursday lifted the last remaining Covid-19 restrictions, Health Minister Michael Damianos said. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, he said people would no longer be required ...

The government should use taxpayers’ money to support sports clubs outside of football, the Famagusta Nautical Club said on Thursday. Reacting to the planned submission of a bill to parliament ...

Cabinet on Thursday approved a bill which will create the role of a “patient advocate”, Health Minister Michael Damianos said. Speaking after the meeting, he said there had been a “...

Major general Neofytos Pachoulides was on Thursday sworn in as the national guard’s new deputy chief. His swearing in took place at a ceremony at the Presidential palace in ...

Another delivery driver was attacked while at work in Limassol on Wednesday. Limassol police spokesman Lefteris Kyriakou told the Cyprus Mail that the incident had taken place at around 3pm. ...

There are “projects” in the pipeline over the maintenance and restoration of the historic Saint Phanourios cave near the Kyrenia district village of Ayios Georgios, the bicommunal Technical Committee on ...

A man who was arrested on Sunday after having handed himself in to the Turkish Cypriot police after he illegally crossed from the Republic to the north was jailed for ...

A total of 100 people who were revealed to have been living in squalor in a camp near Morphou filed reports to the Turkish Cypriot police that they had been trafficked, ...

The government is “examining the possibility” of declassifying Cyprus’ energy market from its current status as “emergent”, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Wednesday. Cyprus’ energy market is currently classified ...

Cyprus’ authorities “have not seen” the financing plan for the Great Sea Interconnector project, the finance ministry’s permanent secretary George Panteli said on Wednesday. Speaking at an extraordinary meeting ...

By Tom Cleaver The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek paid the Republic’s electricity authority (EAC) a total of $2 million (€1.8m) for the supply of electricity during the month of ...

A total of 132 chickens were killed after being attacked by dogs in a chicken coop near Lapithos, the Turkish Cypriot police announced on Wednesday. The incident took place at around 7.30...

The European Union is ready for “constructive solutions” on the Cyprus problem from Turkey, European Commission spokesman Peter Stano said on Tuesday, ahead of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan’s ...

There will be “no other” tax debt repayment plans offered to Cyprus football clubs if they do not repay their debt through the current plan, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said ...

A man was arrested at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point after having attempted to cross from the Republic to the north with methamphetamines in his underpants. The man appeared in ...

The quantity of goat and sheep milk in halloumi compliant with the European Commission’s Protected Designation or Origin (PDO) regulations will surpass the quantity of cow’s milk in ...

Cypriot tennis legend Marcos Baghdatis is to play a one-off exhibition match against former world number one Andre Agassi in Limassol in September.The match will mark the opening of ...

With summer in its final weeks, the season for preparing Tylliria’s local halitzia cheese has arrived. The cheese, so named for its likeness to pebbles, which are also called “...

An exposé released on Monday revealed that migrant fruit pickers in the north are living in squalid conditions in a camp near Morphou. The report, released in newspaper Ozgur Gazete, ...

Deputy Tourism Minister Costas Koumis on Monday decried what he described as “unfair competition” from the north in the tourism sector. Questioned by Politis Radio over tour operator Tui’s ...

The University of Cyprus on Monday said there is “nothing irregular” in its allowing students who obtained international high school qualifications to apply to study at the university. The university’...