Tom Cleaver

New Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis pledged to strengthen the police force during his first visit to their Nicosia headquarters on Monday. He said frontline police services will “inevitably” be strengthened ...

Cyprus needs an astonishing 86 years to reach full and meaningful gender equality, Gender Equality Commissioner Josie Christodoulou said on Monday. Christodoulou was speaking at the unveiling of the government’s ...

Turkish Cypriot Mustafa Hurben is not a rabble rouser, but quietly steadfast in his refusal to take up arms While attempting to imagine what interviewing a Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector ...

The north’s minimum wage was raised to a net figure of 24,000TL on Friday, following a unanimous decision of its minimum wage determination commission. The new minimum wage is ...

The north “must limit and stop” its handing out of ‘citizenships’, ‘MP’ and university owner Serhat Akpinar told the Cyprus Mail. Akpinar, a senior member of ruling coalition party the ...

North-based footballer Souleymane Doukara has travelled to the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after being included in the Mauritania national team’s squad. Doukara, 32, plays as a striker for Famagusta-based ...

Political groups in Cyprus on Friday condemned the United Kingdom’s use of its Akrotiri base in Cyprus to bomb Yemen. In the early hours of Friday, the British government ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Friday denied any involvement in the kidnapping in the Republic of two men who are suspected of murder. On Wednesday, police in the Republic had ...

A total of 80 football teams have travelled to Cyprus as part of their mid-season training camps, Tourism Deputy Minister Costas Koumis said on Thursday. He said it is “nothing new” ...

Police in Paphos arrested two people for working illegally on Thursday. According to the Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou, police entered a café in the town on ...

Police in Limassol on Thursday night arrested a 23-year-old man for possession of various pyrotechnic paraphernalia. The man was found to have had two flares, four large nautical flares, and ...

In today’s episode, the United Kingdom is using its Akrotiri base in Cyprus to conduct bombing raids in Yemen. Meanwhile, state officials blatantly looked the other way to allow ...

Police in the Nicosia district on Thursday arrested a man and a woman over a string of knifepoint robberies at kiosks. A total of three kiosk heists were reported in ...

The man accused of setting fire to Paphos’ municipal Christmas tree will remain in custody pending his trial. The man, aged 39, appeared in court on Thursday to be told of ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos is to travel to Slovenia on Friday on the invitation of his Slovenian counterpart Tanja Fajon. While in Slovenia, Kombos is set to discuss matters including ...

The United Kingdom is on Friday using its Akrotiri base on the island to conduct bombing raids in Yemen, forcing the government to clarify that Cyprus was not involved in ...

There are a million people living in the north, ruling coalition party DP ‘MP’ Serhat Akpinar said on Thursday. Speaking on Kuzey Kibris TV, he said “we have now reached ...

A Chinese man who was on the Interpol Red list was declared persona non grata in the north on Thursday after attempting to apply for ‘citizenship’. The man, aged 54, who ...

Elam have been declared a terrorist organisation in the north, following the publication of the north’s annual list of illegal terrorist organisations on Thursday. They were one of several ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said on Thursday that there are two separate states in Cyprus and there is no need to try things that had been tried repeatedly. Opening ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar said on Wednesday night that the arrest of Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat is a move on the part of the Greek Cypriot side to ...

Any construction being undertaken by Turkish forces in the Denia area is currently outside the buffer zone, United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus spokesman Aleem Siddique said on Thursday. Speaking ...

Police found a stolen car on fire in Liopetri, authorities said in a statement on Thursday. The car had been stolen from Paralimni on Wednesday night, and then 20 minutes later ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz said on Thursday that there are two separate states in Cyprus and there is no need to try things that had been tried repeatedly. Opening ...