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Disy’s parliamentary leader and long-standing MP Nicos Tornaritis has come out in support of Nikos Christodoulides ahead of the second round of the presidential election. Other big names to ...

Cyprus must stop dragging its feet and finally decide to implement building safety checks, with the Turkey-Syria earthquake serving as a stark reminder of the dangers. Those were the emphatic ...

In an article in the Monday issue of the Cyprus Mail, energy expert Charles Ellinas exposed the scandalous failure of successive governments, but particularly the current one, to take the ...

The marathon Disy political bureau meeting called to settle its stance going into the second round of the presidential election appeared set to back a free vote and a party ...

Children remain trapped in collapsed hotel A total of seven Turkish Cypriots were reported dead on Tuesday from the large-scale earthquakes that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria the day ...

The election of Andreas Mavroyiannis will not signal Akel’s return to power, the party’s general secretary said on Tuesday, as the push to garner supporters from a split ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces devastated by two earthquakes that killed more than 7,200 people and left a trail of destruction across a ...

The personalities of the two presidential candidates facing off next Sunday for the island’s top job played a decisive role in their campaigns, elections expert Yiannis Mavris said on ...

Everyone will be waiting for the decision of the Disy political bureau, which will meet on Tuesday evening, as this could have a big impact on the outcome of Sunday’...

President Nicos Anastasiades began applying pressure on the Disy leadership to back the candidacy of Nikos Christodoulides even before the counting of the votes of Sunday’s presidential election had ...

The Cyprus government on Monday said it was saddened by the fatal earthquakes in Turkey and said it is ready to send help. The quakes and their multiple aftershocks were ...

Disy leader Averof Neophytou met the two remaining candidates on Monday as the party continued to deliberate on its course in the presidential election following Neophytou’s exclusion from the ...

The future of Disy remains to be seen as to how the party will handle the exclusion of its party leader Averof Neophytou from the final round of presidential elections, ...

The Cyprus issue and the economy were at the top of London-based Cypriots’ agendas as they went to the polling stations to vote for the first round of the presidential ...

The number of presidential hopefuls was whittled down to two on Sunday leaving Nikos Christodoulides and Andreas Mavroyiannis to battle it out in the runoff next week. The results are ...

Just over 72 per cent of people voted in the first round of presidential elections on Sunday, while close to 30 per cent of people abstained, a trend that has been steadily ...

Corruption has been a major election issue but tackling it will take far more than cliched statements Veteran politician Christos Pourgourides has called on the public going into the elections ...

AFTER a year-long election campaign, we have mercifully reached the final stretch. After today, there will just be another six days left and on the seventh we will have a ...

Although faced with a record 14 candidates in today’s presidential election, the campaigns have been marred by the widely held belief that none of the hopefuls present any “real change”, ...

The election of the eighth president of the republic commences today, although it is highly unlikely a new head of state will be in place when the counting of the ...

By Charles Ellinas Following a joint-letter by the Distribution System Operator (DSO) and Transmission System Operator (TSO) on January 20 requesting suspension of licensing of new residential photovoltaic (PV) installations until ...

The association of occupational therapists is set to reject the HIO’s (health insurance organisation) proposal to join Gesy as it contains “anachronistic conditions”, it emerged on Saturday. Head of ...

Cyprus discovers an average of 3,700 cancer cases per year, the health ministry said on Saturday, marking World Cancer Day. With the slogan ‘Close the Gap in Cancer Care’, the aim ...

Cyprus and the north have agreed to work together for a study that could pave the way to create a photovoltaic park in the buffer zone, government spokesman Marios Pelekanos ...