Tom Cleaver

Almost two metric tonnes of beef smuggled to the north from the Republic were seized from supermarkets in the Kyrenia district on Thursday night. The meat was discovered and seized ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou invoked the name of late United States President John F Kennedy in a speech to mark World Consumer Rights Day on Friday. He said, “as is ...

Turgay Avci, chairman of the north’s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak), resigned on Friday. Avci visited Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar to hand in his resignation, as he did ...

A total of eight people were arrested on Thursday evening after two fights broke out at a children’s shelter in Larnaca. Police said the first fight took place at ...

The Met Office on Friday warned that Green Monday may be hit with “localised rain” around Cyprus. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, Met Office spokesman Panagiotis Georgiou said the rain ...

Former Cyprus President George Vassiliou was admitted to the Nicosia general hospital on Thursday night, it was reported on Friday. While it has been disclosed that he is suffering from “...

The Open Arms aid ship was in the process of approaching and unloading cargo on Friday, the foreign ministry spokesman, Theodoros Gotsis said. Speaking to CyBC, the spokesman said that ...

Turkish Cypriot minor party Milletin Partisi leader Bertan Zaroglu on Friday rejected a proposal from ruling coalition party YDP leader Erhan Arikli that the two parties merge. Arikli had made ...

Police at Paphos airport arrested a total of three people who were found to be in possession of forged passports on Thursday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) on ...

The situation of the seven-year-old girl who was admitted to intensive care after being involved in a car crash on Thursday night is “progressing satisfactorily”, Paphos police’s assistant operations ...

Police in Limassol announced on Friday they had arrested two people on Thursday for suspected money laundering. Both were remanded in custody for seven days on Friday. One, aged 41, is ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday made another intervention on the matter of the “fake diploma scandal” which has engulfed the north’s higher education sector. Speaking on the ...

The police on Thursday announced a raft of special measures for Saturday’s ‘Derby of the Eternal Enemies’ football clash between Apoel and Omonia. The game will be played at ...

The government does have a ‘Plan B’ for the stalled Vasiliko liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, though it has not yet worked out the timetable for that alternative, Energy Minister ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli said on Thursday that his party the YDP should merge with another, namely the Milletin Partisi. Speaking in a televised interview with the ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Halil Karapasaoglu, which was due to take place on Thursday, has been postponed to April 18. The north’s military court took the decision ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar’s daughter Canev Tatar insisted on Thursday that the diploma she obtained from the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) is real. Tatar ...

All four men who are suspected of killing Thanasis Kalogeropoulos pleaded not guilty to all charges on Thursday. The four, aged 44, 41, 22, and 21 years old, were brought before the Limassol criminal ...

Cyprus will open polling stations in Greece, Belgium, and the United Kingdom for June’s European Parliament elections. Cypriots living in those three countries will be able to vote in ...

In today’s episode, MPs raised the alarm over whether Cyprus is carrying out its duties on money laundering compliance. Meanwhile, a second shipment of aid will be sent from ...

The number of Cypriots undergoing kidney dialysis has more than doubled over the course of the last decade, the Cyprus Nephrological Society said on Wednesday. Ahead of Thursday’s World ...

Meray Durust, who was arrested as part of investigations into the north’s “fake diploma scandal”, has begun work in a new public sector role. Durust was arrested alongside her ...

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 ...