Tom Cleaver

The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) “is continuing to injustice the Turkish Cypriot people,” Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Saturday. Speaking to the Anadolu Agency ahead ...

The 31-year-old woman who reported she had been robbed of €420,000 in cash on Friday was arrested for money laundering afterwards, it emerged on Saturday. The woman, who is believed to ...

Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed his support for stronger relations with Cyprus. He made the remarks when the Cypriot High Commissioner to Ghana, who is based in ...

The US and other countries have expressed interest in providing humanitarian aid to Gaza via Cyprus, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. “It is known that the Republic of ...

Environment Commissioner Antonia Theodosiou on Saturday called for “drastic lifestyle changes” to combat climate change. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), she said “not enough brave efforts are being ...

Previous governments’ inaction over the issue of migration constitutes “a crime against the country and against our people,” Diko leader Nikolas Papadopoulos said on Friday night. Speaking to party members ...

Three men from Paphos, aged 36, 37 and 40, were arrested on Friday night in connection with a spate of burglaries which have hit the town in recent weeks. Paphos police director Nikos ...

A 69-year-old woman suffered serious head injuries after being run over by an underage driver in Limassol on Friday evening. The woman was crossing a road at a pelican crossing ...

A 69-year-old Greek Cypriot man appeared in court in the north on Friday, accused of sexually assaulting a hitchhiker he had picked up. The man allegedly picked up a 20-year-old ...

A minor earthquake was detected off the coast of Lefka on Friday morning, according to the north’s met office. The earthquake measured 3.6 on the Richter scale and was recorded ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Friday published the contents of seizures made at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point in the space of 24 hours on Thursday. The items were confiscated from ...

Reconstruction of a section of Nicosia’s old city walls which collapsed in 2022 is complete, the Bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage announced on Friday. The collapsed section was located ...

By Tom Cleaver and Nikolaos Prakas Police were collecting testimony from partygoers in Limassol on Friday, where four armed robbers stole over €20,000 worth of money and items. Speaking to Cyprus ...

Turkish Cypriot MEP Niyazi Kizilyurek hit back at the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu on Friday following criticism levelled over his re-election campaigning in the north. “Tahsin Ertugruloglu is ...

Parliament’s passing of a bill to create a deputy ministry for migration was met with dissatisfaction by non-governmental organisation Kisa’s executive director, Doros Polykarpou, on Friday. Speaking to ...

Parliament on Thursday night unanimously approved the budgets of the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) and State Health Services (Okypy). Okypy’s total budget for 2024 foresees expenditure totalling at €761.8 million, and ...

The Nicosia Municipality on Friday called for the introduction of mosquito-eating fish in water tanks around the capital. The fish, known as the gambusia and also commonly known as mosquitofish, ...

A total of 43 kilogrammes of drugs were found in two unclaimed suitcases which arrived at Larnaca airport on an international flight, police said on Friday. They explained that the suitcases ...

In today’s episode, an investigator will face criminal charges for deliberately failing to properly investigate the road death of Andreas Loizou in 2012. Meanwhile, the Attorney-general ordered the trial of ...

The price of a loaf of bread in the north has been put back up to its historical high of 15TL (€0.44), the north’s Bakers’ association chairman Omer Cirali said ...

The Kissonerga coastal path has been completed and cost a mere fraction of the budget, the village’s council said on Friday. Mukhtar Giorgos Stylianou explained that while the village ...

Two men, both aged 22, were arrested in Limassol on Thursday evening after being found in possession of around seven kilograms of cannabis. Police had seen one of the two men ...

Serdar Denktash, son of late Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, said on Thursday the north should hold parallel ‘EU elections’ this June. Speaking to the north’s public broadcaster BRT, ...

A grieving son has claimed he was asked to take his dead mother’s body home with him as the air conditioning at his local hospital’s morgue was broken. ...