Tom Cleaver

Cyprus is to impose a “landfill tax” on its local authorities, charging them money to dispose of waste at landfill sites, the environment department said on Friday. Following a study ...

A 62-year-old man died on Friday afternoon after being involved in a traffic accident on the motorway between Limassol and Paphos, near the Paphos district village of Koloni. Paphos police’...

Cyprus’ forthcoming term as the holder of the European Council’s rotating presidency in the first half of next year is “a unique opportunity for our country to leave its ...

Ugur Tosunoglu, the son of Turkish Cypriot independent ‘MP’ Hasan Tosunoglu, was arrested in the north in connection with an ongoing investigation into the forging of documents to win a ...

The United States navy’s guided missile destroyer the USS The Sullivans returned to Larnaca for the second time in two months on Friday, the country’s ambassador in Nicosia ...

Turkish Cypriots on Thursday commemorated the second anniversary of the two devastating earthquakes which hit southeastern Turkey in 2023. A total of 49 Cypriots were among the more than 50,000 people recorded dead ...

Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir is not yet dead, doctors said on Thursday, after widespread reports to the contrary. Northern Nicosia’s Kolan Hospital’s chief physician Celal Bolukbasi said ...

Serdal Gunduz, the secretary-general and 30-per-cent shareholder of Morphou’s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU), on Wednesday pointed the finger at ‘MPs’ from the north’s largest party ...

Limassol’s school board was on Wednesday questioned over its installation of padel courts at schools by the House education committee. The padel courts are operated by private firms, with ...

The new migrant centre in Limnes, near the Larnaca district village of Menoyia, is to be completed by the end of the year, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades said on Wednesday. ...

Huseyin Tufekci, the director of Turkish Cypriot construction company the Tufekci Group, was arrested on Wednesday, accused of forging documents to win a tender for the construction of the north’...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved the provision of free bus travel for people whose vehicles have been immobilised as part of government decrees related to faulty airbags and other faults on ...

The government on Wednesday approved a bill to itself the power to ban away fans from football matches “in exceptional cases”. Speaking after the day’s cabinet meeting, Justice Minister ...

Turkey has for the second time in the space of six months sacked its ‘ambassador’ in the north, according to reports on Tuesday. Multiple news outlets reported that Yasin Ekrem ...

The road transport department on Tuesday apologised after sending text messages to the families of people who had died in traffic accidents, informing them that their cars are subject to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday said he is “absolutely satisfied” with the European Council’s resolution the previous day to spend more on defence. At Monday’s European Council retreat ...

Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades on Tuesday moved to reassure motorists that despite Monday’s mass recall, the risk of people driving cars with dangerous airbags is “very low”. “Implementing the ...

The administrative court has found that the Cypriot government was within its rights to deport a European Union citizen who had been convicted of raping and sexually assaulting a child ...

The pursuit of a solution to the Cyprus problem is not high in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s order of priorities, former UK special representative for Cyprus Lord David ...

The total number of arrests made over incidences of fan violence at a handball match in Limassol last week has now risen to four, the police said on Tuesday. They ...

Procedures are underway to open a new palliative care centre in the Paphos district village of Tala, the village’s mukhtar Yiannakis Kokkinos said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Two men were on Monday handed prison sentences of 45,376 and a half years each in Turkey for operating a ponzi scheme which funnelled part of its earnings through northern Cyprus. ...

Anti-fascist movement Antifa and far-right political party Elam are to stage simultaneous protests in Limassol on Friday. Antifa announced that their gathering would begin at 7pm on the Molos coastal ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Sami Ozuslu on Monday decried a lack of progress on the issue of Turkish Cypriots being refused entry to Turkey. At present, it is ...