Tom Cleaver

As his Reuters obituary put it on Monday, Jimmy Carter was “widely seen as a better former president than he was a president”, and this capacity extended to a trip ...

While Jimmy Carter’s election as president of the United States in 1976 may have been a close-run contest, it was greeted with almost unanimous elation in Cyprus. Church bells rang ...

Cypriot journalist Alex Efthyvoulou, the owner of English-language newspaper Cyprus Weekly, died aged 97 on Monday. Reacting to news of his death, President Nikos Christodoulides described Efthyvoulou as a “pioneering journalist ...

Limassol and Larnaca municipalities on Monday announced they would let off “silent fireworks” as part of their new year celebrations. “For the first time, Limassol municipality will bring the magic ...

Polis Chrysochous’ new sewerage system is expected to be completed in 2029, the town’s mayor Yiotis Papachristofi said on Monday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he explained the contract ...

Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said he was “saddened” by the death of former United States President Jimmy Carter the previous day. Christodoulides described Carter as “a selfless leader ...

The United States may offer financial assistance to the Republic of Cyprus to upgrade the Andreas Papandreou air base in Paphos, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. Speaking to newspaper ...

Turkish sporting giants Besiktas JK on Sunday night named Cypriot businessman Serdal Adali as the club’s new chairman. Adali secured a club record total of 8,901 votes among the club’...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Sunday said it was “deeply saddened” by the aeroplane crash which occurred in South Korea earlier in the day and killed almost 180 people. It offered its “...

The Ierokipia municipality on Sunday announced it is taking legal action against the Paphos district government and the consortium which operates the Paphos water treatment plant, near the village of ...

THE HORRORS inflicted upon Gaza in the last 15 months have invoked an urge to do something to feel like one is not simply a bystander and is on the right ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said some of his fiercest critics “have never accepted the Cypriot people’s verdict in the 2023 presidential elections”. Speaking to newspaper Phileleftheros, he said his ...

Renovation work at the village square in the Kyrenia district village of Bellapais will be completed by the end of January, Turkish Cypriot Kyrenia mayor Murat Senkul said on Sunday. ...

Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of 62-year-old Vitaly Shostak in his apartment in Limassol are continuing on Sunday, the police said. Shostak died after being stabbed once in ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Saturday reacted with upset over the Republic’s stated plans to recommence drilling for natural gas in the seas off the coast of Cyprus ...

The Kyrenia district village of Karpasha is a “point of reference” for tradition and cultural heritage during the Christmas period, humanitarian affairs commissioner Anna Aristotelous said on Saturday. Speaking at ...

A 30-year-old man appeared in court on Saturday charged with having deliberately started a fire in an apartment which led to his 70-year-old mother being admitted to intensive care with ...

The Greek Cypriot side is “awaiting an official response” regarding a meeting of President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar over the prospect of opening new crossing points ...

A dead body was found on a construction site in the Paphos district village of Kissonerga on Saturday. Paphos police assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said the body was found ...

“There is no Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, but a Turkish Republic of Cyprus,” Turkish parliamentary defence committee chairman and ruling AK Party MP Hulusi Akar said on Saturday. Akar, ...

Construction of the new Morphou hospital will be completed in 2025, the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Friday night. He was speaking after the signing of a new ...

A 63-year-old woman was remanded in custody on Saturday on suspicion of having stabbed her husband to death with a kitchen knife. She reportedly denies having committed the crime and ...

A total of 1.6 million cubic metres of water flowed into Cyprus’ reservoirs in the last four days, water development department representative Yianna Economidou said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday night announced that he would meet with President Nikos Christodoulides on either January 20 or January 21, and that the planned “enlarged meeting” on the ...