Tom Cleaver

The health insurance organisation (HIO) and the state health services organisation (Okypy) owe millions of euros in unpaid administrative fees, the digital security authority’s assistant commissioner Petros Galides said ...

180,000 Brits in Cyprus may have overstayed their visas By Tom Cleaver Concerns were raised on Tuesday over the whereabouts of around 290,000 third-country nationals, including around 180,000 Britons, who arrived legally in ...

A 24-year-old man was on Monday sentenced to five years in prison after having been found guilty of illegally smuggling people into Cyprus. He had been arrested on April 13 last ...

The 45-year-old alleged ringleader of a bizarre criminal group, which has made headlines in recent weeks after using forged state seals and impersonating officials, has been handed over to the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday asked American multinational technology company Amazon to “participate substantially in Cyprus’ digital ecosystem”. Speaking after a meeting between Christodoulides and Amazon’s senior vice president ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke of how Cyprus can become an “emerging hub” for artificial intelligence on Tuesday. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said after a meeting between Christodoulides and OpenAI’s ...

A 78-year-old man crashed his car through a barber shop’s front door in Morphou on Monday evening, with his car coming to a halt inside the shop. According to ...

A new list of harsher sentences for crimes against animals appeared in the north’s official gazette, paving the way for those found guilty of crimes against animals to receive ...

CCTV cameras must be installed to “serve specific and legitimate purposes, in moderation, and must not become big brother”, data protection commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Monday. She refuted ...

Investigations were ongoing on Monday into an attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in the Larnaca suburb of Oroklini where they were living, ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ Hasan Tosunoglu on Monday resigned from the north’s ‘parliament’. His resignation comes after a request was filed for his ‘parliamentary’ immunity against prosecution to be lifted ...

A bill has been submitted to the United States’ House of Representative which foresees the permanent lifting the US arms embargo in place against Cyprus since 1987. The bill, which was ...

A 49-year-old man from Sweden was on Monday sentenced to 18 months in prison after having escaped from police custody at a private clinic in Larnaca in December. The man had ...

A new cycle path will be built near Athalassa park on the side of Kalamon and Glafcos Clerides Avenue to the park’s south, the transport ministry announced on Monday. ...

A third person was arrested in connection with an incident in which a kiosk in Larnaca was robbed and its owner’s shirt was “grabbed” by one of the perpetrators, ...

The smart bus stops being installed across Cyprus are not the wrong way around, their designer Nikolas Demades said on Sunday. “These stops are designed for Cyprus. The entire system ...

A blood donation event was held in Paphos on Sunday in memory of Anastasia Adamidou, who was one of 57 people killed in a train crash in February 2023 between the Greek ...

Cyprus is an “attractive gateway for energy investment”, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Sunday. Speaking at the Capital Link Cyprus business forum in New York, he said the island ...

Tufan Erhurman was on Sunday announced as the north’s largest opposition political party the CTP’s candidate for the forthcoming Turkish Cypriot leadership elections, which are set to take ...

Deputy Tourism Minister Costas Koumis on Sunday said he is “moderately optimistic” over the future of tourism in Cyprus, despite the uncertainty for the lobal economy created by the announcement ...

“Just over 750” people have filed asylum claims in Cyprus in the first three months of the year, Migration Deputy Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Sunday. At the same time, he ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and American multinational corporation ExxonMobil’s vice president for global exploration John Ardill on Sunday met to discuss the next steps regarding the drilling for natural gas ...

Given that it is a commonly held belief that the issue of landmines is one which has been more or less left firmly in the past in Cyprus, the inclusion ...

It is “unacceptable to use a child to politicise religion”, Serdar Denktash, the son of influential late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, said on Saturday, in response to the ongoing ...