North’s met office head sacked after drought prediction
The head of the north’s met office, Raif Ilker Buran, was sacked on Wednesday after predicting droughts in the coming year.
Buran, who had been in post since 2014, said “...
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Tatar heads to London, parliamentary contacts expected
Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar travelled to London on Thursday.
While in the United Kingdom’s capital city, it is expected that he will meet with contacts at the British ...
Wastewater detoxification project unveiled in Limassol
A project which aims to detoxify wastewater of pharmaceutical origin was unveiled in Limassol on Thursday.
The project, called “Life Pharma Detox”, is being worked on by scientists from across ...
Political representatives from island’s two sides visit Northern Ireland
Representatives of both Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot political parties visited Northern Ireland in November.
The representatives took part in the Cyprus Dialogue Forum, which charted Northern Ireland’s course ...
Talat hits out at Akinci
Says he ‘lit the spark’ for two-state solution policy
Former Turkish Cypriot Leader Mehmet Ali Talat hit out at one of his successors, Mustafa Akinci, in an interview published this ...
Pro-Palestine protest takes place in Nicosia
The latest in a series of pro-Palestine protests began at Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square on Saturday afternoon.
Protesters are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, and end to the blockade on ...
Cyprus commemorates Remembrance Day
A ceremony was held at the monument to the Cypriot fallen in the Second World War to commemorate Remembrance Day on Saturday.
The day is commemorated across the world on ...
Christodoulides: Turkish Cypriot side backed away from Pyla deal
President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday that the Turkish Cypriot side had effectively “backed away” from the mutual understanding reached on construction works in the buffer zone village of Pyla.
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Union begins registering retired Turkish Cypriots for Gesy
The Turkish Cypriot Federation of Revolutionary Trade Unions (Dev-Is) has begun registering retired Turkish Cypriots who worked in the Republic to the health system Gesy.
Dev-Is explained they had been ...
British man missing after failing to board flight at Paphos airport
A British national has been declared missing after failing to board a flight at Paphos airport on Wednesday.
The man, named as 70-year-old Melvyn Storie, was scheduled to fly from ...
British military aircraft on frequent flights between Akrotiri and Israel (Updated)
British military aircraft have been making frequent flights between the country’s Sovereign Base Area in Akrotiri and Israel since the Gaza crisis erupted in October.
A UK-based website by ...
Suspect in Kalogeropoulos murder remanded for seven days
The 21-year-old suspect in the case of the murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos was remanded in custody for seven days on Saturday.
The man was jeered by friends and relatives of ...
Cyprus-Greece cooperation becoming even closer
Cooperation between Cyprus and Greece is becoming even closer, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday.
Letymbiotis had held a meeting with his Greek counterpart Pavlos Marinakis on the sidelines ...
‘Prime Minister’s’ office and BRT budgets pass through committee stage in north
The annual budgets for the ‘prime minister’s’ office and public broadcaster BRT passed through the committee stage of the north’s ‘parliament’ on Friday evening.
The pair of committee ...
Forestry department takes ownership of six drones
The forestry department on Friday took ownership of six new drones.
Two of the drones were donated by online trading platform Exness Global Ltd, while the remaining four were acquired ...
Demetriou calls for measures to alleviate cost of living for retirees
House President Annita Demetriou called on the government to take measures to alleviate the cost of living for retirees on Friday.
Demetriou was speaking to the House of Elders and ...
Calls for north’s ‘parliament speaker’ to resign as budget debate heats up
Opposition ‘MPs’ in the north called on ‘parliament speaker’ Zorlu Tore to resign on Thursday evening during rising tensions surrounding the ‘state’ budget.
The controversy arose as ‘parliament’s’ finance ...
Basic pension to increase by 4 per cent from next year
The basic pension rate is set to increase by four per cent from the beginning of the new year, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Friday.
Panayiotou was addressing the ...
Two remanded after family feud that ended in stabbing (Update 2)
Two men, a father and son, were remanded in custody for three days on Friday after beating and stabbing the father’s other sonearlier the same day.
Police officer Mustafa ...
Renovated Larnaca Hamam inaugurated as events space
A renovated Larnaca Ottoman hamam has been inaugurated as an events space, and called an example of the multicultural character of the city.
Larnaca Mayor Andreas Vyras said the building’...
‘EU is part of the Cyprus problem’
Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar slammed the European Union on Friday following the release of the EU-Turkey report on Wednesday.
“The EU has become a prisoner of the Greek Cypriot ...
Explosion outside Nicosia shop
An explosion occurred outside a shop in the Makedonitissa area of Nicosia in the early hours of Friday morning.
Police said the explosion occurred at around 2:30am and caused damage ...
Daily News Briefing
In today’s episode, a court decision awarding over €780,000 to a depositor who lost his Laiki Bank savings due to the 2013 ‘haircut’ ignited a wave of reactions.
Meanwhile, President Nikos ...
Tatar’s office to be given €10.3m budget for 2024
Ersin Tatar’s office is set to be given a 318 million TL (€10.3m) budget for 2024, as part of the north’s ‘state’ budget begin to be discussed in ‘parliament’.
The ...