Tom Cleaver

The cost of compensating every single Greek Cypriot for every single piece of land lost in 1974 may top £22.4 billion (€26.3bn), former Immovable Property Commission (IPC) chairman Ayfer Said Erkmen has ...

The north is to recommence its Covid-19 vaccination programme on Monday, following an announcement by its ‘health ministry’. The ‘ministry’ said booster vaccinations would be available to those over the ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Friday evening called a meeting of the north’s political leaders, with the meeting believed to have been held in advance of United Nations ...

The block on Turkish Cypriots of mixed marriages, wherein one of their parents is a citizen of the Republic of Turkey, will now have their applications for Republic of Cyprus ...

Turkish Cypriot butchers on Friday called on the north’s ‘government’ to act as consumers desert them to buy cheaper meat in the Republic. They staged a protest at the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday spoke about the possibility of a “Great Sea Interconnector” with the United Arab Emirates’ Deputy Foreign Minister and a delegation of the country’s Taqa ...

Just a third of the north’s workforce are women, according to the latest figures released by the north’s Statistics institute. The statistics, revealed as part of the institute’...

The Greek national who appeared in court in the north on Monday apologising for an anti-Turkish rant was arrested again on Wednesday after entering a Turkish military restricted area. The ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou plans to “promote a discussion” on declaring parts of Syria as safe upon his visit to Brussels for an informal meeting of EU interior ministers on ...

A five-year old girl died at the Makarios hospital on Thursday morning after having been rescued alongside over 60 others aboard a small boat off the coast of Cyprus on Wednesday. ...

A lunch table is to be set up on Saturday to cross Cyprus’ divide as part of a new bicommunal initiative. Going by the name “Ban-quet” the initiative will see ...

A sewage lorry in Famagusta fell into a septic tank it was emptying on Thursday morning in the north. The rear of the lorry fell into the well, with the ...

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Mustafa Hurben was released from prison on Thursday after completing his three-day sentence. He had been jailed on Tuesday after refusing to pay an 800TL (€24) fine ...

The bicommunal Eastern Mediterranean Think Tank has penned a letter to Nikos Christodoulides and Ersin Tatar, imploring them to make progress towards Cypriot reunification. “We feel the need to publicly ...

In today’s episode, House Speaker Annita Demetriou said lifetime benefits for the President and the House speaker need to be abolished. Meanwhile, a child died at the Makarios hospital ...

A 12-year-old from Paphos was injured on Thursday after driving a car into a ditch and then a tree, after which the car ended up on its roof. Paphos police’...

A homemade explosive device detonated at around 3:15am in the Ayia Phyla neighbourhood of Limassol. The explosion occurred at the entrance of a house owned by a 67-year-old woman and ...

Police in Karavas arrested a 50-year-old man on Wednesday evening after he set his own car on fire. The man, who was seven times over the legal alcohol limit to ...

A relative of one of the members of the independent police complaints authority is “involved in organised crime”, it was heard at the House ethics committee on Wednesday. The committee ...

The European Commission is to finance a project in Cyprus aimed at “strengthening the mental resilience” of youth in Cyprus, it was announced on Wednesday. In addition to €500,000 in financial ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces ten years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed once again on Wednesday. The trial had ...

The 500 “new” police officers joining the force this year announced by Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis are actually just planned hires to fill vacancies, a ministry spokesman clarified on Wednesday. “This ...

A “sustainable and functional” solution to the Cyprus problem is the key to ending development on Greek Cypriot-owned land in the north, House President Annita Demetriou said on Tuesday night. ...

The Turkish Cypriot authorities on Wednesday threatened to reciprocate the government’s planned clampdown on Turkish Cypriot taxis operating in the Republic. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, ‘government’ sources in ...