Tom Cleaver

Parliament is expected next week to vote on the expansion of free and compulsory pre-primary education to include children aged four years old and above. The planned vote comes after ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan to cover the travel, accommodation and food expenses of one family member who accompanies a patient sent abroad to receive medical treatment. Speaking after ...

The Republic of Turkey received a €9,000 fine on Tuesday from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for the imprisonment of a Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector. The ECtHR ruled that ...

Trade union Oekdy-Sek on Wednesday expressed their satisfaction with the government’s decision to extend the forest firefighting season from six to eight months. The decision will also see several ...

A 38-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman arrested on Sunday in Paphos are believed to have been involved in a string of burglaries, police said on Wednesday. Paphos police’s ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday called for the north’s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak)’s chairman Turgay Avci to resign. Scandal has engulfed the north’s higher ...

In today’s episode, the humanitarian aid ship Open Arms finally set sail from Larnaca for Gaza. Meanwhile, President Nikos Christodoulides will meet the UN Secretary-general’s personal envoy Maria ...

A total of 116 irregular migrants were brought ashore aboard three boats on Monday, with three more boats still at sea. According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), a total of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday evening that cabinet will discuss a plan to subsidise the travel, accommodation, and food expenses for those accompanying people who are sent abroad to ...

Three Cyprus-based companies have been included in the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States’ government, due to their links to Islamist military group al-Shabaab. The companies, named ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Monday outlined her priorities for the next school year. She said her ministry aims to create an education system “through which citizens with skills, who ...

A private investigator appeared in court on Monday, charged with “stalking” the person he was investigating. In court in northern Nicosia, police officer Yilmaz Sevdali said the investigator had received 90,000...

A man was punched in the face in the early hours of Monday morning after driving with headlights which were “too bright”. The man, aged 33, had been driving on the ...

Attention turned to a sitting ‘MP’ on Monday as the scandal engulfing the north’s education sector regarding “fake diplomas” rumbled on. The ‘MP’ in question is ruling coalition party ...

The iconic Forest Park hotel in Platres has been bought for €10 million, with its new owners promising to elevate it to “Swiss standards”. Over 90 years have passed since the construction ...

Four people were arrested on Friday as part of the north’s ongoing investigation into a college which is believed to be linked to a large criminal network. The four ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Friday that “no one can stop” the Turkish Cypriots from achieving their own state. Speaking to Kibris Postasi, he said the process for ...

A man who stole almost 90,000TL from his workplace and spent it all at a casino was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday. The man, who worked for ...

A 61-year-old man received a fine after attempting to smuggle 143 kilogrammes of red meat from the Republic to the north. The meat, which was a combination of lamb and beef, ...

The government has sent the findings of its investigation into the flooding of state computer services to the Legal Service, Research Deputy Minister Nikodimos Damianou said on Friday. Speaking to ...

A 25-year-old man was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday after being convicted of possessing cannabis with the intent to supply. The man had been arrested after a ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition party CTP Leader Tufan Erhurman said on Friday the north must “drain the swamp” of its education sector. Speaking to Bagimsiz Web TV, he said that as ...

The attorney-general is expected to make a decision regarding the fate of the 82-year-old grandfather who was jailed on Wednesday for shooting a cable thief. The man was sentenced to ...

In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides warned of large increases in the price of motor fuel. Meanwhile, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she is “so proud” ...