Tom Cleaver

The two men accused of murdering 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city were on Wednesday jailed for three months pending their trial. In court, it was once again ...

The village of Louroujina currently has no ambulance service coverage, the north’s former ‘health minister’ Filiz Besim said on Wednesday. Besim said that due to the closure of the ...

A man appeared in court in Kyrenia on Tuesday accused of attacking someone with scissors after the victim cursed his mother. The attacker and victim were reportedly friends and had ...

The man who was “too drunk to remember” stealing a lorry in the Republic and driving it through Louroujina to the north is of “full mental capacity”, it was heard ...

Municipalities in Nicosia are to confiscate electric scooters if they are left “abandoned” in public places, it emerged on Tuesday. Following mounting complaints from the capital’s residents, a meeting ...

The Meritta Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Centre announced on Tuesday it had released three turtles, which had been receiving treatment, back into the sea. The turtles, named Tontik, Jale and Omer, ...

Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Tuesday denied reports that the Greek government had intervened to force President Nikos Christodoulides to remove former Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas from his post. Speaking ...

The government is “in constant contact” with the United Kingdom regarding the use of the British bases on the island, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. Asked at a ...

British High Commissioner in Cyprus Irfan Siddiq on Tuesday encouraged British nationals living on the island to register to vote in their country’s elections. Following a decision announced in ...

An attempted murder took place in Aglandjia on Monday evening, police confirmed. In a statement, they confirmed they were investigating a case of attempted murder after shots were fired at ...

British citizens living outside their country, among whom over 40,000 are believed to live in Cyprus, are to be handed the vote in their country’s elections, following an announcement by ...

The north on Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Dr Fazil Kucuk, the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus. A ceremony attended by the great ...

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 ...