Tom Cleaver

Environment Commissioner Maria Panayiotou said on Wednesday that the latest round of government-sponsored tree planting initiatives, which involves planting 11,000 trees and shrubs, “is not just ordinary tree planting”. “It is ...

Some schools in the north receive just 0.12 toilet rolls per pupil per year from the ‘education ministry’, according to Cyprus Turkish Teachers’ Union (Ktos) General Secretary Burak Mavish. Speaking to ...

The government is taking “steady steps” to modernise and strengthen the National Guard, Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas said on Wednesday. Giorgallas was speaking at a celebration held by the Air ...

House president Annita Demetriou said on Wednesday that parliament “is sending a resounding message of no tolerance for bullying”, as a bill to criminalise bullying at school, at work and ...

The police force is to be modernised, upgraded and reorganised in line with the recommendations of the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (Greco), Justice Minister Anna Procopiou ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar met with Pakistani Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar on Wednesday. The pair met on the sidelines of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO)’s summit ...

Controversy has surfaced in the north over payments made to a private company for the rent of the Ayia Anastasia church in Lapithos, which currently operates as a nursing home. ...

Six teenagers were expelled from the Paphos Technical School on Tuesday due to “their delinquent behaviour”, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported. The school’s leaders said the children were “...

Almost a third of Cypriots are still smokers, according to statistics compiled by research company Marc released on Tuesday. Marc, acting on behalf of Philip Morris Cyprus, interviewed a total ...

One in seven people living in the north are surviving below the poverty line, according to figures released by the north’s Statistics Institute on Tuesday. The figures released also ...

Turkey donated $100,000 (€93,637) to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday, taking the total amount the country has donated to almost €1.4 million. The donation was announced by the CMP’s ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz was compared to video game character Super Mario in ‘parliament’ on Tuesday. The remark was made by opposition party CTP ‘MP’ Fide Kursat, as ...

“All remains calm” in Pyla on Tuesday, with construction work paused, United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) spokesman Aleem Siddique told the Cyprus Mail. “Peacekeepers are monitoring the situation, ...

The motive behind last week’s murders of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos and Alexis Mavromichalis have still “not yet been determined”, according to police spokesman Christos Andreou. Andreou was speaking to the ...

In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides said the United Nations requested a short pause of construction work in the Pyla area. Meanwhile, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is in ...

Sefer Bugra Altundag, who is accused of murdering 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur in January, pleaded not guilty to a charge of premeditated murder on Monday. Altundag appeared ...

Ed Sheeran is to perform on two nights at the Larnaca marina in September 2024, it was confirmed on Monday. The concerts will take place on September 7 and September 8, while British ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday that the United Nations “requested a short pause” of construction work in the Pyla area. Speaking following a day of rumoured tensions, he said ...

Biologists Niyazi Turkseven and Hasan Sarpten warned on Sunday against complacency among Turkish Cypriots regarding the island’s water supply after the Kioneli reservoir dried up. Turkseven and Sarpten reported ...

The labour advisory board proposed on Monday a reduction of the 12 per cent drop in pension payments for those who retire before the age of 65 if they have completed 40 years ...

The number of passengers arriving at and departing from the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport increased by almost a third in the first nine months of 2023, compared to the same ...

A secondary school teacher in Paphos had to be taken to hospital after he was hit over the head with a chair thrown by a pupil on Monday. The school’...

All four political parties in the north’s ‘parliament’ as well as independent ‘MPs’ united on Monday to release a joint condemnation of Israel. The statement, which accused Israel of ...

Kyrenia Mayor Murat Senkul said on Monday the town’s population could be as high as 150,000 and called on those in power to “be serious” about population growth. Speaking to ...