Tom Cleaver

An agreement was signed on Thursday to bring to an end the months of wrangling between workers and employers over the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) and set how it is implemented ...

Seismic activity in and around Cyprus is “expected to ease” after the two strong earthquakes which struck near Paphos on Wednesday, geological survey department director Christodoulos Hadjigeorgiou said on Thursday. ...

The European Commission will “continue to do everything it can” to promote the planned Great Sea Interconnector project, European energy commissioner Dan Jorgensen said on Thursday. He was speaking to ...

The Turkish government on Wednesday donated US$100,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). The donation was formally handed over to the CMP’s Turkish Cypriot member Hakki Muftuzade by ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday evening departed Cyprus for Turkey ahead of his first meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since being elected to the role last ...

The court case against the two Greek Cypriots who remain on trial for alleged privacy violations after five were arrested in July continued in Trikomo on Wednesday, with a representative ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday said the finding of natural gas under the seabed off the coasts of both Greece and Cyprus “demonstrates the strategic importance of our ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Wednesday offered his well wishes in both of Cyprus’ official languages – Turkish and Greek – as well as in English, as two strong earthquakes struck ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday said his country supports “efforts to reunify” Cyprus. “Our positions are clear. We support efforts to reunify the island as mandated by the ...

A wild Wednesday of weather and seismological activity saw Cyprus struck by two earthquakes measuring above five on the Richter scale, while large swathes of the island were also hit ...

Cyprus and Greece both have a duty to “defend security and stability” in the two countries and the wider region, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday at the conclusion ...

The governments of Cyprus and Greece on Wednesday agreed to “update the economic and technical parameters” of the Great Sea Interconnector project, which, if completed, will link the electricity grids ...

Both the Cyprus chamber of commerce and industry (Keve) and the employers’ and industrialists’ federation (Oev) on Wednesday welcomed the European Court of Justice (ECJ)’s overruling of parts of ...

The Limassol district court on Wednesday approved the filing of private criminal charges against five people – former state pathologist Panicos Stavrianos and four former police officers – in relation to their ...

European fisheries commissioner Costas Kadis on Monday praised the European Union’s management of its fisheries during a trip to Limassol. He highlighted the work of the European fisheries control ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday confirmed that he will on Thursday travel to Ankara for the first time since undertaking the role. During that visit, he will meet ...

Cyprus’ forthcoming undertaking of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency in the first half of next year presents a “golden opportunity” to the defence industries of both ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Monday called on President Nikos Christodoulides to be decisive over whether or not he will perform a cabinet reshuffle, saying that if it is to ...

Turkish Cypriots on Monday commemorated the 87th anniversary of the death of the Republic of Turkey’s founding president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Events centred on the Ataturk monument at Nicosia’...

The case against the 49-year-old German woman who stands accused of having sold Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north was on Monday adjourned until Wednesday as the prosecution lawyer is ...

Trade unions expect President Nikos Christodoulides to make the next move after efforts to secure the future of the cost-of-living allowance (CoLA) hit the buffers when employers rejected the government’...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said he is “optimistic” that there will very soon be “positive results” in efforts to bring about a resolution between workers and employers on the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Sunday discussed the future of Gaza with his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa’ar. “Of course, issues concerning our region were discussed, with an emphasis on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday said the government is undertaking the “necessary processes” so as to avoid a repeat of Saturday’s brief confrontation between Turkish military forces and Greek ...