Tom Cleaver

Restoration works on former Turkish Cypriot homes on Piale Pasha street in Larnaca have been completed, the town’s municipality announced on Monday. The works pertained to improvements to the ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Monday, accused of robbing six asylum seekers who had been smuggled with his help from Turkey to northern Cyprus. In court, ...

A 29-year-old man appeared in court in Paphos on Monday as part of the police’s investigation into a large quantity of drugs found in the village of Emba last ...

Turgay Avci, chairman of the north’s higher education standards authority (Yodak), insisted on Monday that his own degree is real. Avci had faced allegations that his degree, which he ...

Nicosia mayoral candidate and current Disy MP Nikos Tornaritis on Monday announced plans to construct a bicommunal solar farm in the buffer zone in the city. Speaking at a meeting ...

Drugs and other prohibited items including mobile phones are being smuggled into prison from court, reports said on Monday. According to Phileleftheros, the drugs and prohibited items come into prisoners’ ...

The ceiling of the canteen at the Canakkale middle school in Famagusta collapsed during the February school holidays, it emerged on Monday. The ceiling’s collapse is the latest in ...

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Paphos Municipal Wholesale Market “definitively and irrevocably” belongs to the town’s municipality. The ruling draws a line under a 30-year saga ...

The 47-year-old man accused of attacking two others with a machete sent threatening texts to the girlfriend of one of his victims, it emerged on Friday. The nature of the ...

Larnaca on Friday signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Lebanese city of Jounieh. The memorandum pertains to cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, and investment, and was signed ...

The Limassol chamber of commerce and industry (Evel) on Friday expressed its “disagreement and displeasure” with comments made by Deputy Culture Minister Lina Kassianidou that no new premises should be ...

A 42-year-old man was handed an eight-day remand on Friday, accused of facilitating the illegal transportation of irregular migrants to Cyprus. The remand is related to the detection of two ...

Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates signed a bilateral defence cooperation programme covering the year 2024 on Thursday. The agreement was signed in Abu Dhabu by National Guard international relations chief ...

Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat, who is currently on bail after being extradited to Cyprus from Italy, “committed no crime on either side of the island,” Cyprus Turkish Bar Association ...

Ruling coalition party in the north the YDP postponed its leadership election on Friday, just a day before it was set to take place. In a slightly awkward joint press ...

A 42-year-old Greek Cypriot was arrested at the Pergamos crossing point in the north after being found to have been using forged car insurance documents. Further inspection of his vehicle ...

A woman appeared in court in Famagusta on Friday accused of beating a 100-year-old resident of the care home at which she works. The incident came to light after the 100...

Larnaca airport has been ranked inside the top 20 airports in the world by British business website BusinessFinancing. The ranking, which is based on scores given by business travellers, saw Larnaca ...

A new open wing at the central prison is set to be opened by the end of the month, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Friday. Hartsiotis was speaking following ...

Three men appeared in court in the north on Thursday, accused of selling lottery tickets and scratch cards from the Republic. Speaking in court, the police’s representative said one ...

The north is looking to mirror the Republic’s planned clampdown on Turkish Cypriot taxi drivers, with ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore promising to take the “necessary initiatives against unregistered taxi ...

Cyprus has the youngest population of any of the European Union’s member states, according to the latest figures published by the European Union’s statistical institute, Eurostat. The median ...

A 32-year-old man was arrested in the north on Thursday after allegedly pulling a knife on a barman. He reportedly got into a disagreement with the barman over the price ...

An ancient room, among other ancient artefacts, was discovered during archaeological digs at the Kalavsos-Laroumena site near Larnaca. The findings were discovered during the digging of two trenches, both of ...