Tom Cleaver

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 ...

Tuesday’s meetings with the leaders of Egypt and Jordan will be “decisive” in Cyprus’ effort to create a maritime corridor to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

The mayors of Yeri and Latsia, Neophytos Papalazarou and Christos Pittaras, have expressed their vehement opposition to the potential construction of new buildings to accommodate unaccompanied migrant children within their ...

The Court of Appeal on Monday rejected a suit for damages by the management of the Ktima Mackenzie venue in Larnaca, which was built on Turkish Cypriot land, after the ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar met with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov on Monday. The meeting took place during an official visit by Tatar to Kyrgyzstan, in which he also gave ...

The new minimum wage will be devised “according to society’s needs and the economy’s potential”, Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou said on Monday. A new minimum wage is set ...

MPs raised concerns on Monday regarding the government’s plan to move the foreign ministry temporarily to the former Laiki Bank building while its current headquarters undergoes renovations. The concerns ...

Much has been made of the transformation the city of Limassol has undergone on land, with the port city on Cyprus’ southern coast having been regenerated into a bustling hub ...