Tom Cleaver

The government has launched an online non-binding referendum, asking citizens whether or not the voting age should be lowered. Voting is taking place via the new online platform announced by ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is to meet with United Nations Secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Thursday. Both Christodoulides and Guterres are both in Bruges for the European Council summit, with Guterres also ...

The death of a 27-year-old man in Kyrenia on Sunday may have been caused by a physical altercation in which he was involved the previous week, it was heard in ...

Service dogs and dogs belonging to low-income pensioners and welfare recipients may soon be exempt from the dog licence fee, following the passage of a bill through the House environment ...

The Cyprus Broadcasting Cooperation (CyBC) has had all its bank accounts frozen, it emerged on Wednesday. The accounts have been frozen by a decree obtained by the lawyer of Evdokia ...

Levels of amphetamine and methamphetamine are on the rise in wastewater in Cyprus, the European monitoring centre for drugs and drug addiction (EMCDDA) said on Wednesday. The EMCDDA was presenting ...

The flow of tourists travelling from Israel to Cyprus is expected to be restored to last year’s levels within the next month, Association of Cyprus Travel Agents (Acta) chairman ...

A total of 64 kilograms of meat smuggled from the Republic was found and seized by police in the north on Tuesday night. The meat was found in a house in ...

A lieutenant colonel from the ‘TRNC security forces command’ was arrested in connection with the ongoing “fake diploma scandal”, it emerged on Wednesday. The lieutenant colonel appeared in court on ...

A total of 7,500 new voters have been registered for the forthcoming elections in June, Electoral Service head Menelaos Vasiliou said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), he ...

The electricity authority (EAC) were handed a €28,000 fine on Wednesday following the conclusion of investigations into the death of a worker in 2018. The fine relates to the death of 42-year-old ...

Restoration works at the historical Arif Bey aqueduct near the village of Afania have been completed, the Turkish Cypriot co-chairman of the Bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage Ali Tuncay ...

Police seized a total of 4,000 litres of fuel which had been illegally transported from the north in the back of a van, it emerged on Wednesday. Having seen the van ...

Cyprus has fallen four places to 50th in this year’s annual World Happiness Report, which was released on Wednesday. The report includes data from 143 countries across the globe, with ...

The north’s ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu on Tuesday ruled out the possibility of granting an amnesty for those who obtained fake diplomas but did not use them. Speaking in ‘...

Police on Tuesday announced two further arrests in the case of an attack on a construction site and resident workers which took place on Friday evening. Four people are now ...

The House commerce committee on Tuesday gave the government 15 days to submit its position over which body will be responsible for overseeing Cyprus’ marinas. Committee chairman and Disy MP Kyriakos ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s bodyguard Serif Avcil claimed to have “lost his phone on the way to the police station”, police sergeant Bilger Koral said in court on ...

A criminal complaint for sexual harassment was filed against the head of the beleaguered Osiou Avakoum monastery, it emerged on Tuesday. The complaint was filed by a former employee, who ...

Investigations into football refereeing in Cyprus have revealed that as many as seven games may have been unduly manipulated over five years, it emerged on Tuesday. The Sports ethics committee ...

“The elderly’s problems are not the government’s priority,” House Labour committee chairman and Akel MP Andreas Kafkalias charged on Tuesday. Speaking at a committee meeting regarding services for ...

Tom Cleaver recounts a day spent in Kormakitis, the Maronite village in which the “Sanna” language is spoken In my 24 years, I have been almost everywhere in Cyprus, and seen ...

Ersin Tatar’s bodyguard Serif Avcil appeared in court on Saturday after having been arrested on Friday night in connection with investigations into the north’s ongoing “fake diploma scandal”. ...

A 25-year-old prisoner in the north made an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to escape on Saturday. The man, a 25-year-old Pakistani national, was being housed in the north’s old prison ...