Tom Cleaver

Storms on Monday damaged businesses on the Paphos seafront, despite only lasting for a short time. Angelos Onisiforou, chairman of the Paphos recreation centres’ owners’ association, said several shop owners ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel has announced plans to build thousands of social houses with the aim of allowing young Turkish Cypriots to move into them. Ustel said ...

Five private security guards are set to be installed at the Ayios Nikolaos complex in Chlorakas, which was once home to hundreds of migrants. According to the Paphos police, there ...

Current Turkish Cypriot member of ‘parliament’ and son of former Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat, Ongun Talat has hit out at the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu, saying ...

A 39-year-old man has been arrested for burglary in Paphos. According to police, a concerned citizen noticed at 1:45am on Tuesday that a shop on Apostolou Pavlou street had been ...

Two men from Paphos were arrested on Monday for stealing copper pipes and other items worth a total of €9,100, while police are looking for a third culprit. According to Paphos ...

Kyrenia’s indoor market, known as the ‘Bandabulya’, is set to be reopened “under the management of women”. The town’s council entered an agreement with two female associations, the ...

Occupancy rates at hotels in Paphos are expected to reach 80 per cent during the months of September and October, according to Paphos hoteliers’ association chairman Thanos Michaelides. Speaking to the ...

Almost a fifth of Cypriots cannot afford to keep their homes warm, according to the European Union’s statistical agency Eurostat. According to figures compiled in 2022, 19.2 per cent of Cypriots ...

The United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unficyp) is investigating an incident in which a peacekeeper threw a punch at a Turkish Cypriot soldier in Nicosia on Monday. The incident ...

Health minister Popi Kanari aims to “win the support of parliamentary parties” to pass bills and upgrade public health, she said on Monday. Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting ...

The primary school in the village of Pentayia, near Lefka, has been deemed unsafe after earthquake inspections were carried out on its building. As a result, the building will not ...

A whopping 26,840 kilograms were stolen from the Kyrenia port, according to the Turkish Cypriot police. They say a ship with the sesame seeds on board arrived at the port on ...

House president Annita Demetriou has sent a message of support to her Greek counterpart Konstantinos Tassoulas for the wildfires and floods the country has experienced during the summer. “It is ...

Nine busloads of Israeli tourists, who arrived in Cyprus aboard the Crown Iris cruise ship, will visit Larnaca on Saturday. They are scheduled to visit Finikoudes beach and the town ...

Controversial Turkish Cypriot journalist and Avrupa newspaper editor Sener Levent has been sentenced in absentia to a year in prison in Turkey. He had been put on trial in Ankara ...

Lieutenant General Demokritos Zervakis, the outgoing chief of the National Guard, met with President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday and was thanked for his service. The meeting was also attended by ...

The mayor-in-exile of Lysi, Andreas Kaouris, met on Friday with President Nikos Christodoulides and delegations from Lysi’s twinned towns, Abdera in Thrace, Lemnos, and Kilkis. The twinned towns’ delegations ...

The UBP, the north’s largest political party, ruled out the possibility of holding a party conference this year at the latest meeting of its party congress. In a statement ...

Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz is set to visit the north on Tuesday, according to reports. Yilmaz will stay on the island for two days and is expected to include ...

Turkish Cypriots living in Nicosia have rejected a proposal for rentable electric scooters to be placed in the northern part of the capital. In the first of what is set ...

The second team of Cypriots who had been sent to Greece to aid in the fight against the country’s wildfires are due to return to the island on Friday ...

The government is set to expand the current laws regarding offensive material on the internet, such as child pornography and terrorism, to include racism, xenophobia, and hate speech. Speaking to ...

Lieutenant general George Tsitsikostas, the new head of the National guard, was inducted into his new role at a ceremony at the Presidential palace on Thursday. Tsitsikostas replaces the outgoing ...