Tom Cleaver

The property market on the island remains buoyant with even high-end property sales continuing to rise, statistics released by Sotheby’s International Realty real estate agency show. In the first ...

Turkish Cypriot police have arrested a total of 13 people after British Turkish Cypriot Huseyin Mavideniz was beaten to death outside an entertainment venue in Trikomo on Thursday. Two of the ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel has announced the names of the members of his new cabinet, after performing a cabinet reshuffle on Friday. The highest profile move is ...

Consumers association president Loukas Aristodemou has claimed supermarkets are listing false prices for products on their shelves. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), he said over 200 products were being ...

The north’s ‘cabinet’ passed a motion approving the transfer of land registered under the name of the Republic of Cyprus in Varosha to its ‘finance ministry’. The land is ...

A spokesperson for the customs department has reiterated the department’s commitment to the Green Line regulation after controversy once again arose following the confiscation of petrol. The controversy came ...

The village of Ayios Tychonas has attempted to combat anti-social behaviour by adding an electronic barrier and a security guard to one of its roads. The village is located to ...

An as yet unidentified woman is in a critical condition at the Nicosia general hospital after being run over in Strovolos on Thursday morning. Police have not yet been able ...

Politicians in the north have signed the “Karpasia donkeys management plan cooperation protocol” with the aim of better managing the peninsula’s free roaming donkeys. The protocol was signed on ...

The education ministry has pledged a total of €149 million for the maintenance and improvement of school buildings across Cyprus. These upgrades include works to earthquake-proof them, as well as erecting ...

The rising price of raw milk has “raised a red alarm” among Turkish Cypriot halloumi producers, according to the Cyprus Turkish chamber of industry (KTSO). The price of raw milk ...

The defence ministry has handed over all the relevant information regarding deferrals of military service, a spokesman has told the Cyprus Mail. The files, which include the details of every ...

A kebab shop owner has been jailed for a year after attacking a customer for voting for Stavros Malas in the 2018 Presidential election. According to Phileleftheros, a then-69-year-old regular ...

A 44-year-old man was arrested in the Paphos village of Nea Dimmata on Wednesday after attacking a mobile traffic camera. According to the police, the camera’s operator said the ...

A 29-year-old man has been killed after a fight outside a bar in Trikomo. According to Turkish Cypriot police, the man, named as Huseyin Mavideniz, engaged in an altercation with ...

A whopping 4,000 new sunbeds have been placed on the beaches of Ayia Napa. Ayia Napa mayor Christos Zannettou spoke about the move on Wednesday, thanking the workers who placed the ...

Russia is to “begin providing consular services” in the north “in the very near future”, according to Russian news agency Tass. According to the reports, an official from the Russian ...

The north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu has touted a shift to a ‘presidential’ system, saying he “believes in [it] until the end”. The north has had a parliamentary system ...

The government’s deputy spokesperson Doxa Komodromou has said the ongoing row between health minister Popi Kanari and the ministry’s permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki is an “internal matter for ...

A Turkish government office has corroborated Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s claims that the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) fabricated a quote after a recent interview. Turkish Presidency’s Communications ...

The full results of the 2021 census will be ready by March 2024, a Statistical service (Cystat) representative said on Tuesday, meaning they will meet a hard deadline set by the European ...

The large number of Cypress and lemon trees cut down in the Paphos village of Mandria were done so with the permission of the forestry department, the village’s mukhtar ...

The north’s chief prosecutor has filed a case against left-wing Turkish Cypriot journalist and trade unionist Ali Kismir for “insulting and defaming the morality of the TRNC Security forces ...

Efforts to restore the Turkish Cypriot primary school and mosque in the village of Kokkina have been completed, the Turkish Cypriot foundations administration (Evkaf) and the ‘TRNC Security forces command’ ...