Tom Cleaver

New Turkish Cypriot ‘transport minister’ Faiz Sucuoglu on Monday said that the sinking of a ferry off the coast of Kyrenia last month was “one of the greatest tragedies” Cyprus ...

A total of 13 cars’ windscreens were smashed in a car park in Ayia Napa, with the police describing the incident as “malicious” and saying they have launched an investigation. The ...

A seven-metre statue of a winegrower was on Monday placed in the spot it has traditionally occupied in Limassol’s municipal garden ahead of the city’s 65th Wine Festival. ...

The anti-corruption authority on Monday announced that it had ended its investigation into the “spy van affair”, during which it came to light that a company was offering private surveillance ...

The United States government’s decision to extend the waiver of its arms embargo on Cyprus for another year constitutes “a clear message regarding the relations between the United States ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said that “feverish” preparations are ongoing in the hope of achieving tangible results on the Cyprus problem during the United Nations general assembly’s “high-level ...

A deep-sea research and survey ship, named the Optimus Prime, has arrived off the coast of Kyrenia and is expected to join efforts on Monday to recover the 14 people who ...

Primary schools across Cyprus reopened their doors on Monday as the new academic year began, with a total of 52,186 children flooding through the gates of 328 primary schools and 274 nursery schools ...

Monday’s weather will begin with clouds occupying the skies across the island, with those clouds then expected to produce isolated rain or even the odd storm in the mountains ...

Justice Minister Costas Fitiris and the United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR)’s Cyprus representative Leslie Esther Velez on Friday met to discuss matters related to refugees and international ...

A verdict in the case against Georgios Christodoulou Zavrantonas, who stands accused of having been in possession of 15 kilograms of cocaine, is expected to be issued by the Nicosia criminal ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he believes that Edek can return to parliament, after losing all its seats in the legislature at May’s election, as he met the ...

The captain of the passenger ferry which sank off the coast of Kyrenia on August 30 appeared in court in the town alongside eight other suspects – seven members of his crew ...

Transport Minister Evi Tsolaki on Friday confirmed that the civil aviation department, as well as other state agencies, had received a fax regarding “the existence of a bomb” on an ...

Famagusta district governor Yiannis Karousos on Friday spoke of “serious staffing problems” at the Famagusta general hospital in Paralimni, describing those shortages as “seriously concerning”. He said that he had ...

The foreign ministry on Friday said it wished to “reaffirm” its “solidarity” with the United States on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, describing those attacks as “heinous”. “We ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will make his annual speech at the United Nations general assembly in New York on September 23, according to a provisional list of speakers published by the UN. ...

Two 20-year-old men have been arrested in Ayia Napa for the possession and the circulation of counterfeit banknotes, the police said on Friday. According to the police, officers in the ...

Sunat Atun has been selected by the Turkish Cypriot legislature to lead its investigation into whether there is political culpability to be apportioned following the sinking of a ferry off ...

Faults at pelican crossings in Nicosia, which saw pedestrian buttons attached to traffic lights render no change to the lighting sequence, are to be “resolved immediately”, the city’s mayor ...

Friday’s weather will be mostly sunny across most of the island for most of the day, with temperatures set to rise to 38 degrees Celsius inland, 34 degrees Celsius on the ...

The Turkish Cypriot legislature voted on Thursday to change their voting system and do away with the “mixed voting”, meaning that voters will now only be able to choose candidates ...

People who “should not be hospitalised in psychiatric hospitals” are currently inpatients at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital, House health committee chairwoman Savia Orphanidou said on Thursday. Addressing the day’s ...

Denia village community leader Charalambos Alexandrou on Thursday said that he had asked that the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) be “more noticeable” in the area around his ...