Tom Cleaver

Thousands of cars in Cyprus may have defective airbags, it was heard in parliament on Tuesday. The matter was raised during a discussion about recalls at the House commerce committee, ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Tuesday visited flood-affected banana plantations near the Paphos district village of Kissonerga. During her visit, she confirmed that the first estimations regarding the cost of ...

Opposition ‘MPs’ are “illegally occupying” the north’s ‘parliament’, ruling coalition party UBP ‘MP’ Ziya Ozturkler said on Tuesday, continuing to insist that he has been elected as ‘speaker’. Speaking ...

Restoration work at the mosque in the Limassol district village of Avdimou has begun, bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Ali Tuncay announced on Monday night. Avdimou was inhabited ...

The woman who was arrested for pouring boiling water on her husband’s scrotum appeared in court in Trikomo on Monday, while her husband remains in hospital. In court, police ...

The Ayios Dhometios gymnasium in Nicosia on Monday announced that it will undertake a pilot programme of “optional” all-day lessons. The programme was announced following a cabinet decision and will ...

The Cyprus Confederation of Disability Organisations (Kysoa) on Monday called for an end to the annual Radiomarathon fundraiser for children with special needs, saying its “paternalistic” messaging is “stuck in ...

The fifth week of the north’s political crisis began on Monday with opposition ‘MPs’ attempting to open ‘parliament’ under the authority of ‘deputy speaker’ Fazilet Ozdenefe. Ozdenefe, who belongs ...

Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou on Monday said she hopes to complete the government’s recording of damage caused by Saturday evening’s storms by the end of the day. Speaking ...

Nurses’ union Pasyno on Monday spoke of “miserable conditions” in which nurses are expected to work, in the aftermath of floods which hit the Paphos general hospital on Saturday evening. “...

All effective domestic legal remedies must be exhausted by people claiming compensation or restitution for properties owned in Cyprus prior to 1974 before a case can be filed at the European ...

The ongoing political crisis in the north is set to retake centre stage on Monday, with ‘parliament’ due to convene, but the ruling coalition and opposition still unable to disagree ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos pledged to further deepen relations between Cyprus and Qatar after meeting the country’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Sunday. He ...

The north’s ‘agriculture minister’ Huseyin Cavus on Sunday promised new, stricter price controls for lamb meat, amid the latest wave of people being caught attempting to smuggle meat from ...

Authorities in the Paphos and Limassol districts on Sunday began to count the cost of the damage caused by Saturday night’s storms. Teams from both districts’ governments began recording ...

Disy MP Efthimios Diplaros on Sunday announced that he would not stand for re-election at the next parliamentary elections in 2026. His party is set to introduce a new internal rule ...

Greek Cypriot teachers’ trade union Poed and Turkish Cypriot teachers’ trade union Ktos on Saturday night faced off against each other in a football friendly match in Limassol. Ktos secretary-general ...

Five people were fined by the Turkish Cypriot police after attempting to cross from the Republic to the north at the Ledra Palace crossing point in Nicosia with combined total ...

Hunters have expressed their “disappointment” over a lack of huntable animals present in Cyprus on the first Sunday of the hunting season, Paphos district hunting federation chairman Giorgos Theodosiou said ...

A body was found in the remains of a polyurethane manufacturing plant in the Larnaca district village of Dromolaxia in which a large fire had broken out on Sunday. A ...

Police on Sunday announced the arrest of three people regarding burglaries, thefts, and other, similar crimes. Two of the three, aged 42 and 41 years old, were arrested in connection with an ...

The Paphos general hospital, which flooded during heavy rain on Saturday night, was “built with a lot of shoddy work”, the town’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos said on Sunday. “No ...

Large swathes of Cyprus were battered by storms on Saturday afternoon and Saturday night, with strong winds felling trees and heavy rain sending water cascading down roads across the island. ...

Storms and strong winds caused havoc in Limassol, with fallen trees closing vital parts of the city and district’s road networks, and shop windows being smashed by the elements. ...