Tom Cleaver

A bill which will alter the payment of the cost-of-living allowance to Turkish Cypriot public sector workers will be sent back to the Turkish Cypriot legislature’s finance committee, ruling ...

Pro-federal solution, centre-left political party the CTP will form the north’s ruling coalition after the next legislative elections, according to the results of a poll released on Wednesday. The ...

Calm is prevailing in the buffer zone village of Pyla after reports of “tensions” between the island’s two sides and the United Nations earlier in the day, Turkish Cypriot ...

The European Parliament has in its latest annual report called on Turkey to “give the Turkish Cypriot community the necessary space” to chart its own political course. The report was ...

Investigations into a block of flats which collapsed in Limassol’s Yermasoyia, killing two, are expected to be complete within the week, chief of Limassol CID Costas Michael said on ...

The European network of transmission system operators for electricity (Entso-E) has rejected suggestions that it may include plans for a cable to connect Cyprus and Turkey into its continent-wide ten-year ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel’s close personal associate on Wednesday denied that she has any links to a spate of closures of social media accounts and deletions of ...

A motorcycle burst into flames on Tuesday evening, with the police believing that the fire was set deliberately. The motorcycle had been parked in what the police described as an “...

Former Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s defamation lawsuit against newspaper Yeniduzen was rejected by a court in northern Nicosia on Tuesday, with the court finding that the newspaper had ...

The police are preparing a criminal case against the woman at the centre of accusations made by journalist Makarios Drousiotis, according to reports on Tuesday. Newspaper Politis reported that the ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos was one of 18 signatories to a joint statement issued on Tuesday evening which called for de-escalation in the Lebanon, with negotiations between Lebanon and Israel set ...

More than three quarters of Turkish Cypriots support a federal solution to the Cyprus problem, according to the results of a poll which were published on Tuesday. The poll was ...

Action will be taken after numerous journalists, news outlets and politicians complained that they had fallen victim to “cyber-attacks” in recent days, Turkish Cypriot telecommunications department chairman Tayfun Aydinli promised ...

Invites were sent on Tuesday to leaders of the European Union’s 27 member states to attend a summit in Cyprus later this month. The invites were sent by European Council ...

As soon as Johannes Hahn left his post as the European Commission’s envoy for the Cyprus problem, Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis was at pains to stress that processes ...

Non-governmental organisation Accept – LGBTI Cyprus on Sunday reacted with fury to images of Easter bonfires, known as “lambradjies”, adorned with LGBT flags, describing them as “fires of hatred”. “When LGBTQI+ ...

The status of the United Kingdom’s two sovereign bases in Cyprus is “not up for negotiation”, British undersecretary of state for the armed forces Al Carns said on Sunday. “...

British Cypriot singer Isin Karaca said she was denied entry to Greece and deported from Athens airport after having attempted to go on holiday to the country. She posted a ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel continues to face criticism from both inside and outside his ruling coalition over his handling of attempts to cut payments of the cost-of-living allowance ...

Rocks were thrown at police officers in the Nicosia suburb of Latsia on Saturday evening after the officers had responded to reports of bins being set on fire. One of ...

The police on Sunday defended their decision to issue a search warrant for the home and office of lawyer Nikos Clerides, stressing that the decision was taken within the bounds ...

A boat was completely destroyed by a fire which broke out in the Larnaca district village of Kofinou, the police said on Sunday. The boat had been on the back ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Saturday night said that an investigation will be “necessary” into the collapse of a block of flats in the Limassol suburb of Yermasoyia, which killed ...

Sunday’s weather is expected to be partly cloudy across most of the island, with scattered showers forecast and thunderstorms not ruled out. The skies are expected to gradually clear ...