Tom Cleaver

By Tom Cleaver and Elias Hazou Contractors have been ordered to halt all construction work within the Akamas national forest until December 18, while a group of experts review whether the ...

In today’s episode, Cypriot children displayed below average competencies in the 2022 report of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa). Meanwhile, the government gave its consent for the individual ...

The central government’s debt fell by 5.6 per cent between June and September to €22.5 billion. The figure amounts to a €1.33bn reduction over the course of the three-month period in ...

The north’s ‘interior ministry’ on Thursday reacted angrily to a doctored video of ‘minister’ Dursun Oguz which had circulated on social media in recent days. The video in question ...

A 29-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday night, suspected of throwing stones at the windows of the town’s courthouse, among other buildings. The man was apprehended at ...

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu made fresh statements about the Cyprus problem on Wednesday, saying Turkish Cypriot youth have been raised with the “wrong attitude” and have not ...

A university lecturer in the north has appeared in court after allegedly posing as a doctor. The lecturer, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey, who works at the Cyprus ...

A 29-year-old woman was sentenced to two years in prison in the north on Wednesday for stealing 700TL (€22.41). The woman, named Kadriye Denise Surucu, had a previous criminal record, having ...

Cypriot children displayed below average competencies in the 2022 report of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa). Pisa surveys 15-year-old children in mathematics, reading and science, and grades them based ...

Only half of Cypriots intend to vote in June’s European Parliament elections in 2024, according to data collected by the Eurobarometer published on Wednesday. Cypriots are the least likely of ...

Discussions regarding low-wage civil servants’ pay continued on Wednesday, with unions and the government exchanging views. The meetings were, as is custom, attended by representatives of three trade unions – Sek, ...

British Defence Minister Grant Shapps is travelling to Cyprus on Wednesday to meet with officials and staff at the United Kingdom’s British bases. Shapps’ trip to Cyprus is part ...

Two Turkish Cypriot ‘MPs’, Oguzhan Hasipoglu of ruling party the UBP and Armagan Candan of opposition the CTP, were in Paris on Wednesday for committee meetings of the European Council ...

Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos left for Slovenia on Wednesday for a meeting of contracting parties to the Barcelona Convention. The Barcelona Convention aims to protect the marine environment and the ...

The government is to create electronic health files for all citizens as part of its creation of a “National electronic health bank”, it emerged on Wednesday. The move was announced ...

The sale of alcohol to minors or the consumption thereof by minors is illegal, Law Commissioner Louiza Zannetou said on Wednesday. Zannetou was speaking during a round table discussion organised ...

The north’s ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz on Tuesday called for stricter implementation of laws regarding the sale of property to third country nationals. “The first measure we are trying ...

A man has created a traditional Cypriot wedding scene using the popular children’s action figure toys Playmobil. “I have been playing with Playmobil since I was a small child, ...

Cypriot children drink more alcohol than their counterparts in the rest of Europe, but in a smaller quantity, according to survey released on Tuesday. The Espad survey questioned 15 and 16-year-olds ...

The trials of 11 people being held responsible for the deaths of 24 Turkish Cypriot children following the collapse of the Isias hotel in Adiyaman, Turkey, during February’s earthquakes will begin ...

Primary school children in Parekklisia engaged in a two-hour strike on Tuesday over inadequate facilities at the school. The strike was organised by the school’s parents’ association, with pupils ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah II on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing situation in Gaza. His first port of call was ...

The 2024 state budget will have a 2.2 per cent surplus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. Christodoulides was speaking at the Cyprus chamber of commerce and industry (Keve)’s annual general ...

Turkish Cypriot halloumi producers should be able to export their product to the standards of the protected designation of origin (PDO) by June, the European Commission’s Cyprus Settlement Support ...