Tom Cleaver

The north’s new ‘parliament’ building will be ready in 2024, speaker Zorlu Tore said on Friday. Tore was speaking as ‘parliament’ took receipt of three new service vehicles, which were ...

Akel is to hold a statutory conference on Sunday with the aim of voting on changes to the party’s constitution, which members hope will modernise the party. Among the ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers gathered in front of northern Nicosia’s district court on Friday morning to protest against the criminal cases opened against 22 of their colleagues. Charges of “battering the ...

Black Friday began just like any other day for retailers and consumers in Cyprus, with no significant increase in business. “This is just a normal Friday,” Employers and Industrialists Federation (...

A 42-year-old woman from Limassol informed police on Friday she had fallen victim to a cryptocurrency scam and lost a total of €19,200. The woman said she had been contacted online ...

In today’s episode, MPs heard that significant legal and staffing challenges are slowing down the creation of a deputy ministry for migration, which has been deemed an important move ...

The north’s ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz said on Thursday he plans to bring in new restrictions to curb the rate at which third-country nationals are buying property. Speaking to ‘...

The House Transport Committee on Thursday discussed the possibility of reducing the time required for driving licence penalty points to expire, with the timeframe possibility set to be reduced from ...

A man arrested on Tuesday for masturbating outside a primary school in the north did so “as a joke”, he told police. The man, a Pakistani national who was arrested ...

Stephen Jupp, the new Chief Constable of the British Sovereign Base Areas’ police force was sworn in on Monday at the Episkopi Officer’s Messm the bases announced on Thursday. ...

Serdar Denktash, the son of late Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, said on Thursday that the north’s ‘government’ “has not done one good thing” during its time in office. “...

There has been a total of 831 complaints of violence against women in the north so far this year, according to the Turkish Cypriot police’s Violence against Women Intervention branch. ...

Disy on Thursday slammed the government’s decision not to include provisions for the creation of a National Cancer Institute in the forthcoming budget for the health ministry. “The freezing ...

Tufan Erhurman, leader of the north’s largest opposition party the CTP, on Wednesday joined calls for those responsible for the collapse of the Isias hotel to be charged with ...

Questions have been raised in the north over meetings held by ‘MP’ Hasan Tacoy with Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz and his own ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel. According to website ...

By Tom Cleaver and Andria Kades A 26-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Wednesday after having robbed a bakery and two kiosks. The man was found by police while ...

Cyprus is “the strongest supporter of Serbia’s European path”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Christodoulides is in Serbia on a two-day visit and made the remarks following a ...

The European Parliament voted in favour of a bill to implement a number of reforms to the bloc’s treaties, including an almost absolute abolition of the principle of unanimity, ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Wednesday after attempting to smuggle two people to the Republic. He had been arrested on Tuesday while driving between Nicosia and ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday he will “raise the issue” of Israelis buying property in the north with the Turkish Cypriot authorities. Fidan was quizzed by the ...

A man was arrested in northern Nicosia on Tuesday for masturbating in the middle of a road. The man was later taken to court and charged with obscene exposure, before ...

Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday there is “no question” of the mutual understanding on construction in and around the village of Pyla being renegotiated. He said the mutual ...

The government announced on Tuesday its intention to create a “national action plan for the third age and active ageing”. Explaining the decision, Social Welfare Deputy Minister Marilena Evangelou said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is to travel to Rome to visit Pope Francis on Friday. Christodoulides will be received in the Vatican City by the Swiss Guard, before holding a private ...