Tom Cleaver

Fidias Panayiotou was one of four Cypriot members of the European parliament who voted against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen when her nomination was ratified by the European ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday called for negotiations for a solution to the Cyprus problem to resume. Speaking during his arrival at the European Political Community summit in ...

The number of British tourists travelling to the north has halved since 2003, according to reports published on Wednesday. Newspaper Yeni Duzen’s columnist Cenk Mutluyakali wrote on Thursday that he ...

Cypriot member of the European Parliament and social media influencer Fidias Panayiotou announced he will vote against Ursula von der Leyen when the European Parliament decides whether to ratify her ...

Akamas mayor Marinos Lambrou on Thursday said the construction of the Paphos marina is an “urgent need”. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), he said the project “will bring ...

Opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman leads a poll published on Wednesday asking Turkish Cypriots who they will vote for in next year’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election. The ...

The temporary jetty constructed to facilitate the transfer of humanitarian aid arriving into Gaza from Cyprus will never be used again, after United States Central Command spokesman Major General Pat ...

Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides on Wednesday called for every prisoner to have a bed on which to sleep, and not just a mattress on the floor of their ...

European Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Wednesday responded to a court ruling which found the European Commission had not been adequately transparent regarding the contracts it signed for Covid-19 vaccines. ...

Akel’s Giorgos Georgiou voted against the European Parliament’s resolution for continued support for Ukraine, while independent member of the European Parliament Fidias Panayiotou abstained on the motion. Disy’...

Newly re-elected European Parliament president Roberta Metsola and four of Cyprus’ six members of the European Parliament on Wednesday called for the Cyprus problem to be solved, as the 50th ...

Disgraced United States Senator Bob Menendez is to be stripped of his honorary citizenship of Paphos, the town’s mayor Phedon Phedonos said on Wednesday. “We’re going to strip ...

The forestry college is to reopen in January, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Wednesday, with its first intake of students scheduled for September next year. Panayiotou was speaking after ...

The House commerce committee on Tuesday decried a “falsification of the truth by certain circles” over a bill aimed at setting a maximum price of bottled water at certain points ...

Farmers are preparing to protest next Monday over the ongoing water shortage, demanding more be allocated to farmland. There will be two simultaneous protests taking place, one in Paphos and ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou called for the European Union’s common agricultural policy to be “enriched” to support small and medium-sized farms, it was reported on Tuesday. Speaking at a ...

The north’s ‘education ministry’ on Tuesday reacted with “deep sorrow and concern” over images drawn by children depicting Turkey’s invasion of the island in 1974. The images appeared on ...

Upgrades to the anti-flood channel in Livadia “will be complete in the second half of 2025”, the Livadia Borough said on Tuesday. Work on the anti-flood channel began at the beginning ...

Archbishop Georgios on Monday night said it was Paphos which “overturned the junta’s plans”. Paphos, he said, “rescued Makarios and allowed him to flee abroad to defend the interests ...

Humanitarian aid gathered in Cyprus will reach Gaza “no matter what”, Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said on Tuesday. Singh was being questioned over the state of the temporary jetty, which ...

Painted motifs were found on the interior walls of the mosque in the Paphos district village of Terra, as restoration work on the mosque began.  The motifs were discovered under ...

The visit of Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias to Cyprus on Monday “shows a very clear separation” of the country’s modern government from the junta which sponsored a coup ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Monday said he had not yet decided whether or not he will run in next year’s Turkish Cypriot leadership elections. ...

A drone illegally delivered two packages into the central prison on Sunday night. Prison guards spotted the drone between 10pm and 11pm, and witnessed it fly into the prison’s ...