Tom Cleaver

The recent controversy surrounding “non-secular” content in new school textbooks to be used in the north is “a storm in a teacup”, according to ‘education minister’ Nazim Cavusoglu. “We stand ...

The 14-point package of confidence building measures (CBMs) reportedly being prepared by President Nikos Christodoulides is “full of traps”, according to Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar. The authenticity of the ...

Police investigations are focused on the “personal circumstances” of the man who was found in a pool of blood in Xylotymbou on Tuesday. In addition, Famagusta police spokesman Steve Theodoulou ...

A 49-year-old woman is in hospital after being stabbed in her neck and left arm in Limassol on Tuesday night. According to police, the woman presented herself to the Limassol ...

The number of tourists visiting Larnaca during the summer season this year is expected to number around 400,000, according to the town’s mayor Andreas Vyras. Speaking to the Cyprus News ...

A 37-year-old man is in an “extremely critical” condition after being found in a pool of blood in his home by a relative on Tuesday. According to Famagusta police spokesman ...

The Open University of Cyprus is to begin offering courses in English, according to a strategic plan issued to President Christodoulides by its chairman Giorgos Papas. Papas confirmed the plans ...

The use of smart devices in Cyprus saw a sharp rise in 2022 compared to 2020, according to the European Union’s statistical office Eurostat. Almost two thirds of people aged between 16 ...

The Scientific committee for the monitoring of Covid-19 disease has been renamed as the Advisory scientific committee following its meeting on Tuesday. In addition, the meeting saw information provided regarding ...

Two men have been arrested in the north after one bought a ‘TRNC’ identity card from the other, before sticking his own picture on it and using the card he ...

Greek and Turkish Cypriot trade unions are to hold a joint event at the Home for Cooperation in the buffer zone in Nicosia to mark World Peace Day on Friday. ...

The electricity supply of the north’s public broadcaster Bayrak and the Hala Sultan Mosque in Mia Milia were cut off on Monday, according to the north’s electricity authority (...

The Trikomo district court heard on Monday how Sefer Bugra Altundag killed 16-year-old Zehie Helin Reessur in January. In the latest hearing of Altundag’s trial, Trikomo police judicial branch ...

The auditor office said on Monday that health ministry permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki’s Egyptian dentistry degree is “authentic”, after weeks of speculation over its validity. The speculation reached fever ...

The north paid the Republic around €14 million for electricity in the space of the last month, its electricity authority (Kib-Tek) employees’ union (El-Sen)’s general secretary Ahmet Tugcu said on ...

State doctors’ union Pasyki on Monday condemned an “unprovoked violent physical attack” on a psychiatrist at Limassol general hospital. The attack took place on August 18, though details thereof have not ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu both condemned the attack on the Koprulu Haci Ibrahim Aga Mosque in Limassol on Saturday. Tatar described ...

School textbooks to be used in the north in the upcoming academic year have been criticised by teachers for containing “non-secular” content. Rifat Can, a geography teacher based in the ...

The number of new asylum applications in Cyprus in May was down 61 per cent compared to the same months last year, according to the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat. ...

A report into the “multi-year delay” in installing lifts in government-owned apartment buildings has been released by Human Rights Commissioner Maria Stylianou Lottides. The report highlights the impact on elderly ...

Three political parties have released statements calling on the government to reinstate the fuel subsidy that was scrapped on July 1, causing an 8.3 cent per litre price rise for consumers. Disy ...

Public sector workers in the north are set to work the same hours all year round, after a bill was unanimously passed in ‘parliament’ on Friday. Pending assent from Turkish ...

Medical equipment is set to be donated to the Makarios hospital’s paediatric clinic by the Australian Hellenic medical charity. The charity, operating alongside the Cypriot community of Adelaide, announced ...

The picnic site in the village of Vouno was sealed off by the Dikomo municipality on Friday in an ongoing spat regarding an “unauthorised” building on the site. According to ...