Tom Cleaver

The northeast of Cyprus will be without water for three days between Tuesday and Thursday as repairs are made to a burst pipe. Tarkan Ceki, the head of the north’...

The government will withdraw its request for the University of Cyprus to pay overtime to its seconded employee and current deputy government spokeswoman Doxa Komodromou and inform the university that ...

Multiple firearms and 22 kilograms of cannabis were found by police during the search of a house in Liopetri. The firearms included a shotgun with 61 rounds of ammunition and a loaded ...

Turkish Cypriot Famagusta mayor Suleyman Ulucay met with the mayor of the London Borough of Bexley, Ahmet Dourmoush on Monday. The pair discussed the possibility of cooperation between the Famagusta ...

A total of 110 young lawyers have joined the government’s training programme for new lawyers since the start of the year, with 250 expected to join, according to Labour Minister Yiannis ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers have threatened to refuse to teach in afternoons as the new school year began on Monday. Children returned to Turkish Cypriot schools on Monday amid a hive ...

The entirety of the board of directors of the Cyprus turf club has resigned over fears for their safety after alleged bomb threats against them. The move has thrown the ...

Human resources are “the most important wealth-producing resource of our economy”, according to Labour minister Yiannis Panagiotou. Panagiotou was speaking at the Cyprus human resources development authority (HRDA)’s annual ...

Patients at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital are being kept in a “hostage situation” due to a lack of social services allowing them to be discharged, the state doctors’ union Pasyki ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar met with political leaders on Friday ahead of his trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. The leaders of all four parties ...

There were 656 new cases of prostate cancer recorded in Cyprus in 2020, up from 550 the previous year. Between 2016 and 2020, there were an average of 540 new cases recorded in Cyprus per year, ...

The fire brigade took delivery of nine new fire engines on Friday at a ceremony attended by Minister of Justice and Public Order Anna Prokopiou. At the ceremony, she said ...

Two dead bodies were found in a vehicle at the bottom of a cliff between the villages of Orga and Panagra on Friday. Turkish Cypriot police say the vehicle appears ...

A 30-year-old man from Paphos has been sentenced to 12 years behind bars after being found guilty of importing illegal drugs and money laundering. According to the police, the man was ...

A total of €45,000 in cash was found in the luggage of a passenger attempting to depart Paphos airport and fly to Stansted airport in the United Kingdom, the customs department ...

In today’s episode, the government decided to set up an interdepartmental team as a focal point for drawing up policies to stem the flow of irregular migrants. Meanwhile, MPs ...

A new mosque is set to be built in Kioneli, after an agreement was signed on Thursday between the town’s mayor Huseyin Amcaoglu, Foundations administration (Evkaf) chairman Ibrahim Benter, ...

Police are investigating a case of internet fraud wherein a scam artist managed to extract more than €80,000 from a company based in Nicosia. The case was reported to police by ...

Construction work on the road between the villages of Pyla and Arsos resumed on Thursday, with works taking place outside the buffer zone near Arsos. Rumours surfaced among Turkish Cypriot ...

Controversy has surrounded the north’s electricity authority (Kib-Tek) and its workers’ trade union (El-Sen)’s leader Caglayan Cesurer regarding an alleged nepotism scandal. According to reports, Kib-Tek hired 16 people ...

The government’s policy of reducing the VAT rate, in some cases to zero, on various everyday products, has been “very successful”, according to the Consumer protection service’s director ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday condemnation from Turkey and the Turkish Cypriot ‘government’ of the EU parliament report was “nothing new,” while he said the government holds “particularly dear” ...

The militaries of the north and Turkey are carrying out joint exercises this week. The exercises, which have been given the official name “Martyr Captain Cengiz Topel Mediterranean storm exercise-23”, ...

A 42-year-old from Paphos has been arrested after being found in possession of cannabis during a traffic stop on Wednesday. The man was charged in writing for his crime and ...