Tom Cleaver

The sale of Politis from Yiannis Papadopoulos to Chris Panayiotou was made official on Wednesday. Papadopoulos has owned the newspaper and its related companies since it was founded in 1999, and ...

The new haemodialysis unit at the Paphos general hospital is suffering from a “major shortage” of nursing staff, unit director Lakis Yioukkas said on Wednesday. He said a total of 17 ...

The north’s ‘government’ was on Tuesday night challenged in ‘parliament’ over its “silence” regarding the ongoing trial of Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in jail ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Tuesday night said the international community must “make sure that the influence Turkey is trying to assert in Syria is not going to create an ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that talks to resolve the Cyprus problem “must continue within the United Nations’ framework”. Speaking ...

Bags containing guns and drugs, among other items, were found in a wooded area near the Limassol suburb of Polemidia on Tuesday. Police were called to the scene after a ...

Singer Peter Andre “may” retire in Cyprus, he revealed on Tuesday. In British gossip magazine OK, he pointed out that the United Kingdom’s Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday told United Nations special representative Colin Stewart he is “ready” to discuss the opening of new crossing points with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. Government ...

Three people were handed life sentences on Tuesday for their parts in the murder of 34-year-old Demetris Andronikou. The trio, 30-year-old Omar Suleyman, 28-year-old Mohammad Al Agka, and 26-year-old Mohammad ...

The Turkish government on Tuesday announced that it had decreased the rate of import tax on goods entering the country from the north to 30 per cent – the same rate paid ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Tuesday launched an investigation into the death of a Russian national in Kyrenia, characterising the man’s death as “suspicious”. The man lived in Kyrenia ...

The government “has no policy that comprehensively addresses the elderly’s issues”, Disy MP Rita Superman said on Tuesday. Speaking on the second day of the parliamentary debate on the ...

A new record high number of passengers passing through the Republic of Cyprus’ airports has been set this year, with it projected that more than 12 million people will have taken ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos on Tuesday said he wants to make his town a “regional university centre” in 2025. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said he wants to increase ...

The Larnaca municipality and the transport ministry remain at odds with one another over the future of the town’s port, with the municipality remaining vehemently against the idea of ...

The Supreme Court will on Wednesday announce its decision regarding the cause of the death of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou in 2005. The Limassol district court had ruled in May that Nicolaou ...

The police on Monday night called on motorists to drive with care as heavy fog hit parts of the island. The fog was particularly dense between Nicosia and Larnaca, with ...

Only 19 schools across the north have been renovated to become earthquake-resistant in the last 22 months, despite funds having been allocated to renovate a total of 127, opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Feliz ...

A teenage boy who edited into existence explicit images of teachers and pupils at the school he attends was handed a conditional caution in court in the British bases on ...

The three-day debate on the 2025 state budget got underway on Monday, with the proceedings set to wrap up on Wednesday evening with the vote at the House plenum. The first ...

Former Agriculture Minister Costas Petrides died on Monday at the age of 75. Petrides, a native of the Paphos district village of Kouklia, served as agriculture minister under late President Glafcos ...

The fact that British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer did not visit the north during his trip to Cyprus last week is a good thing, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ ...

Parliament on Monday approved a new law which will allow the transport minister to issue decrees to recall defective vehicles in light of recent issues with faulty airbags. The law ...

The government is “committed” to strengthening Cyprus’ public health system, Health Minister Michael Damianos said on Monday. Damianos was speaking at a formal signing ceremony of a new memorandum of ...