Tom Cleaver

Greek Orthodox Christians across Cyprus celebrate the Epiphany on Saturday, one of the most important days on the Greek Orthodox calendar. The day marks the baptism of Jesus Christ in ...

Construction work is set to begin on Cyprus’ first crematorium within the first half of the year, according to the director of the company undertaking the project, MW Crematorium Cyprus’ ...

United Nations Secretary-general Antonio Guterres announced on Friday evening the appointment of Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar as his “personal envoy” to Cyprus. The announcement was made by his spokeswoman Stephanie ...

Cypriot journalist Guren Tilki was released late on Friday evening, after having arrested in Turkey earlier that day for allegedly insulting the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ and head of the north’s ‘parliamentary’ justice committee Oguzhan Hasipoglu made an extraordinary intervention to reporters on Friday regarding the trial of those held responsible for ...

Compulsory testing for Covid-19 within 48 hours of visits to a plethora of locations has been reintroduced by the government, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Friday. Kanari was speaking during ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou has hailed the government’s proposal to gradually expand the provision of free pre-primary education to children aged four years old and up. Speaking to the ...

Human Rights Commissioner Maria Lottides decried “rights violations” and “infringements on constitutionally guaranteed freedoms” during the Covid-19 pandemic in her annual report. The report, which was submitted to President Nikos ...

The future of the production of halloumi as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) product is “up in the air”, after producers on Wednesday repeated their decision to close their ...

The finance ministry said on Wednesday it will decide within the next two days whether or not to approve the opening of 56 new job positions at the Health Insurers’ Organisation (...

Two men appeared in court on Wednesday accused of aiding and abetting the murder of 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city in December. Alav was found dead at ...

The government’s investigation into the flooding of state computer servers in April last year has been completed, Deputy Research Minister Philippos Hadjizacharias said on Wednesday. In a post on ...

A 16-year-old boy was arrested in Karavostasi in the north on Wednesday after stabbing two men in the village’s industrial site. The incident occurred at about 9:15am, when the ...

The Larnaca Municipality is considering opening a new indoor municipal theatre in the area near the town’s oil refineries, Mayor Andreas Vyras said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

The trial of 11 suspects held responsible for deaths of 24 Turkish Cypriot children and 11 of their teachers and coaches when a hotel they were staying in collapsed began on Wednesday. The ...

In today’s episode, the first shipment of humanitarian aid from Cyprus and the United Kingdom for the people of Gaza arrived at Egypt’s Port Said. Meanwhile, the driver ...

There are a total of 996,401 registered mobile subscribers in the north, 811,183 of which are active, according to the latest statistics released by the north’s Communications authority (BTHK). The statistics ...

Three men appeared in court in the north on Tuesday after being arrested on New Year’s Eve night for shooting into the sky with rifles. The trio were arrested ...

A Turkish Cypriot lawyer was arrested in Italy, it emerged on Tuesday, with reports linking the arrest to the sale of Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north. The lawyer, named ...

A delegation of Turkish Cypriots travelled to the Turkish city of Adiyaman on Tuesday for the beginning of the trial of those held responsible for the collapse of the Isias ...

Workers earning the minimum wage in the north are earning less than the equivalent salary in Turkey for the first time, it appeared on Tuesday. Upon returning to work after ...

The final total of traffic deaths in Cyprus in 2023 reached 34, marking a continuing downward trend in deaths on the road, police spokesman Christos Andreou said on Tuesday. Numbers have fallen ...

The police’s investigation into the death of a five-month-old baby in Larnaca is ongoing, with police suspecting that it was caused by “shaken baby syndrome”. The baby was found ...

The father of one of the Cypriot children killed during February’s earthquakes was detained on arrival in Turkey on Tuesday after a case was filed against him for post ...