Tom Cleaver

The final count of people who were detected on three boats off Cape Greco on Tuesday was 170, police said on Wednesday morning. An initial count on Tuesday had suggested a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is travelling to Brussels on Wednesday, ahead of the latest European Council summit. The summit is set to officially begin on Thursday, and its agenda is set ...

A 63-year-old man is wanted by police in Paphos after allegedly swindling two people out of a combined total of €11,500. According to the Paphos police’s deputy chief of operations ...

The Nicosia Turkish Municipality (LTB) has joined the European Coalition of Cities Against Racism (Eccar). Announcing its joining of the coalition, LTB said it “represents local governments in the United ...

Cypriot Members of the European Parliament called for more strictness towards Turkey on Tuesday, in light of the imminent approval of the EU-Turkey report. Speaking to journalists, Akel MEP Niyazi ...

Israeli technocrats arrived in Cyprus on Tuesday for talks with Cypriot officials regarding the Cyprus’ initiative to create a humanitarian corridor between the island and Gaza. The visits come hot ...

Discussions continued regarding the north’s 2024 ‘state’ budget at ‘parliament’s’ plenary session on Tuesday. The discussions form the latest episode of the north’s budget ‘marathon’, which, is set ...

A total of 102 irregular migrants were detected on three separate boats off the coast of Cape Greco on Tuesday. The first boat was spotted at 2:15pm around 10 nautical miles off ...

MPs on Tuesday warned that the Koshi waste management facility may be contaminating the water supply in the Aradippou area. The issue was brought up at the House agriculture committee, ...

A total of 943,978 people are now registered on Gesy, Health Minister Popi Kanari said on Tuesday. Kanari was speaking at a high-level meeting of the World Health Organisation to mark 15 ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli insisted on Tuesday that “sabotage” was the cause of power cuts at Ercan (Tymbou) airport after six flights were cancelled on Monday due ...

Turkish Cypriot leaders have rejected Israeli allegations that the north was being used by Iran to harbour terrorists with the aim of attacking Israelis in Cyprus. Israel had said on ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Tuesday hailed an agreement reached between the government and trade unions regarding low-wage civil servants’ pay as “a positive outcome for everyone.” He added that “...

Gunes Onar was on Tuesday named as Ersin Tatar’s special representative, replacing the retiring Ergun Olgun. Onar previously worked as Dervis Eroglu’s director of political affairs and undersecretary ...

A few quirks, but with the buses in disarray at present, scooters are a viable alternative I am one of a small minority on this island not to own a ...

President Nikos Christodoulides set a goal on Friday for the agriculture sector to produce five per cent of Cyprus’ gross domestic product. The sector is currently worth three per cent ...

President Nikos Christodoulides outlined his plans for the elderly, including plans for a national strategy and a national action plan, on Friday. Christodoulides was addressing the European political conference on ...

There was yet another delay in the trial of Sefer Bugra Altundag on Friday, who stands accused of murdering 16-year-old Turkish Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur. The case had most ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met with the Bank of Cyprus Oncology centre’s chairman of the board Christos Triantafyllidis on Friday to discuss solutions to the centre’s financial deficits. The ...

Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc visited the graves of the Turkish Cypriot children who were killed in February’s earthquakes on Friday. The visit to the graves was his first ...

Trade unions to which Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) workers are affiliated are to meet with Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday with the aim of resolving outstanding issues. The ...

The defence ministry on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with the American University of Cyprus. At the signing ceremony, ministry undersecretary Andreas Louka described the memorandum as “an important ...

An airport worker in the United Kingdom has lost his job after a man arrived in Cyprus to find the words “c–t stop checking in late” written on his ...

The perpetrator and the victim are both missing after a man was stabbed in Nicosia’s walled city in the early hours of Friday morning. Police were called after blood ...