Tom Cleaver

The north’s gross domestic product (GDP) reached just over €3.6 billion at the end of 2023, the north’s statistics institute reported on Tuesday. That figure corresponds to a growth of 7.3 ...

Cypriot authorities are “unable to respond and prevent any environmental disasters”, non-governmental organisation Terra Cypria said on Tuesday. The organisation was responding to confirmation from the environment department the previous ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday promised that the highway connecting Paphos and Polis Chrysochous will be ready within the next three years, as local residents questioned the viability of ...

The case against the 15-year-old boy who stands accused of having edited into existence explicit images of teachers and pupils at the school he attends had his latest court hearing ...

Trade unions Sek, Peo, and Deok expressed their dissatisfaction on Tuesday over what they called an “unfortunate intervention” by Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou into the unresolved labour dispute in the ...

“All parties” have given their consent for an enlarged meeting to be held on the Cyprus problem, according to reports on Monday. The Cyprus News Agency reported that a “brief ...

Police in Paphos fired warning shots on Monday night as a 41-year-old man attempted to escape being arrested for a suspected kidnapping. The police believe the man may be connected ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Dogus Derya was branded a “terrorist” by pro-‘government’ demonstrators on Monday night after she threw water at the man the north’s ruling ...

Cyprus’ reservoirs are still only a quarter full, according to data released by the water development department, despite heavy rain hitting swathes of the island over the last two weeks. ...

By Tom Cleaver The ‘No child without a coat’ campaign was launched by the Aglandjia municipality and the Alkinoos Artemiou foundation for the third successive year on Monday. The foundation ...

The north’s population was projected as exactly 476,214 by its statistics institute on Monday. The institute said its projection was “produced in line with assumptions prepared by taking into account ...

The ongoing argument over whether ruling coalition party UBP ‘MP’ Ziya Ozturkler is or is not the north’s ‘parliament speaker’ became physical in ‘parliament’ on Monday, as he once ...

The “isolated incidents” of flooding seen in Limassol during storms on Sunday were caused by foreign objects, many of which constitute litter, becoming stuck in drains, the public works department’...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Monday called for house prices to fall. He pointed out that Cyprus has seen the third-lowest rate of house price increases in the European Union ...

A 26-year-old man was arrested after trashing a hotel lobby in Paphos, police announced on Monday. Paphos police assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou said the incident had occurred shortly before ...

A man was arrested after presenting a counterfeit French identify card at passport control at Larnaca airport, police announced on Monday. The incident took place at around 3.35pm on Sunday, ...

A British Royal Air Force reservist was sacked after sending photographs of his penis – known as ‘dick pics’ – to a female colleague while he was deployed in Cyprus. The man, ...

The bicommunal Buyuk Han Saturday morning coffee club, colloquially known as the “traitors’ club”, celebrated 20 years of existence on Saturday. The group, which consists of Turkish Cypriots, Greek Cypriots, and ...

The Church of Cyprus has donated €1 million to the Hellenic Naval Academy, Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias announced on Friday. In a post on social media, he said the donation ...

Elam members marched on Larnaca’s Finikoudes beach on Friday night in protest against migration. The march made its way from Europe Square up the beach road and was billed ...

Opposition ‘MPs’ in the north “will not allow” Ziya Ozturkler, the man the ruling coalition declared as ‘parliament speaker’, to attend discussions over next year’s ‘state’ budget, ‘parliamentary’ finance ...

Ahmet Tugcu, the leader of the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s employees’ trade union El-Sen, on Friday announced he had filed two lawsuits against ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel over ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Friday called on the European Union to “stop acting as the Greek Cypriot side’s spokesman”. The ‘ministry’ was responding to EU High Representative ...

American multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil will next year begin drilling for natural gas under the sea off the coast of Cyprus, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday. ...