Tom Cleaver

The government has allocated €11.2 million in the 2024 state budget for the purchase and lease of firefighting aircraft, Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Sunday. The money will go towards the ...

Fibre optic internet cables will be installed in every single home in the north in 2024, according to ‘public works minister’ Erhan Arikli. Arikli was speaking at an event hosted by ...

People belonging to vulnerable groups should stay indoors, the Labour inspection department said on Sunday, as high concentrations of dust have been detected in Cyprus’ air. The department also urged ...

Akel members have approved four changes to the party’s structure aimed at modernising the party. With the relevant motions having been approved by a majority of the more than 1,000 ...

The UBP, the largest political party in the north, is set to hold its next party conference in September. The move was announced on Saturday by party leader and ‘prime ...

Giorgos Perdikis has told Green Party members “for God’s sake come and talk to me about it” if they have a problem with how the party is being run ...

The government attaches great importance to the promotion and strengthening of rural areas and mountain villages, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Sunday. Ioannou was speaking at the opening of ...

Demolition work began on Saturday at Kythrea’s health centre, after the building was deemed unsafe during earthquake proofing checks. Speaking at the commencement of demolition works, the north’s ‘...

A Greek Cypriot woman appeared in court in the north on Saturday, accused of robbing the Erulku supermarket in Neo Chorio. According to the Turkish Cypriot police, the woman entered ...

An 18-year-old was remanded in custody for three days on Saturday after attempting to leave Cyprus from Paphos airport with a forged identity card. The incident occurred at around 4:40pm ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia Mayor Mehmet Harmanci has reacted furiously after the north’s ‘labour ministry’ removed the Istanbul convention from northern Nicosia’s violence against women protocol. The Istanbul convention ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos travelled to Barcelona on Sunday to take part in the Forum of the Union for the Mediterranean. The forum’s focus will be on developments in ...

A 43-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Saturday while in possession of a kilogram of cocaine. Police found 250 grams of cocaine in his car and arrested him. Following his ...

Police in Paphos arrested two minors who were riding motorcycles on Saturday. Paphos police chief Michalis Nikolaou said the arrests were made with the aim of “combatting juvenile delinquency”. The ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar hit back on Friday after teachers protested his presence at an event to mark the north’s Teachers’ Day on Friday. Tatar attended a customary ...

A Greek Cypriot appeared in court in the north on Friday after having been arrested by Turkish Cypriot police at the Ayios Dhometios crossing point with 10 grammes of cocaine in ...

Five people appeared in court in the north on Friday after a motorcycle heist in Limassol in the early hours of the previous morning. The five, aged between 19 and 23, were ...

A fire engine rolled over onto its side in Bogazi, near Dikomo, on Friday. It overturned at around 10:45am on the way back to the local fire station from a ...

The Cyprus Architects’ Association on Friday called for an immediate re-evaluation of the construction being carried out in the Akamas area. They added that the competent ministries and all parties ...

Around 300 of the 700 children at the Bekirpasha high school in Trikomo “do not speak Turkish as their first language”, according to local ‘MP’ Biray Hamzaogullari. Hamzaogullari, who belongs to opposition ...

Reports on the cyber-attacks which hit the land registry, the University of Cyprus, and the Open University of Cyprus are expected to be completed within days, Data Protection Commissioner Irene ...

The north’s new ‘parliament’ building will be ready in 2024, speaker Zorlu Tore said on Friday. Tore was speaking as ‘parliament’ took receipt of three new service vehicles, which were ...

Akel is to hold a statutory conference on Sunday with the aim of voting on changes to the party’s constitution, which members hope will modernise the party. Among the ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers gathered in front of northern Nicosia’s district court on Friday morning to protest against the criminal cases opened against 22 of their colleagues. Charges of “battering the ...