Tom Cleaver

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli scolded his coalition partner and ‘deputy prime minister’ Fikri Ataoglu in a televised interview on Tuesday. Arikli, who leads the YDP, the third ...

Deputy Culture Minister Vasiliki Kassianidou discussed “opportunities for cultural cooperation” with Japanese Ambassador to Nicosia Yoshio Yamawaki on Tuesday. Writing after the meeting on X, the social media platform formerly ...

Residents of Lefka on Tuesday demanded that the town’s courthouse and police department be reopened. The demand was made by the Lefka Civil Society Organisations Platform, which asked that ...

Residents of the village of Kapouti, north of Morphou, are “at the point of mutiny” due to the large and growing number of stray dogs which inhabit the village, according ...

Two men were handed prison sentences for the possession of child pornography by the Larnaca criminal court on Tuesday. One was sentenced to eight years behind bars, and the other ...

Less than a quarter of gyms are operating legally, the Gym Owners Association (Pasigy) said on Tuesday. It lamented what it described as a “lack of effective control” of the ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar said on Tuesday there are students from 144 different countries studying at the north’s universities. He was speaking to Turkish online television channel OdaTV and ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday called a critical meeting regarding lawyer Akan Kursat who is currently being held in custody in Italy, according to reports. Reports of the ...

Incidents of cybercrime were the leading cause of calls to the police’s 1480 cyber safety helpline during the last three months of 2023, according to the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute (Pik). Pik’...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Tuesday plans are underway to boost the profile of Cyprus’ higher education. Speaking following an interministerial meeting aimed at developing the field, she said ...

More children than usual were off school sick on Monday, the first day of school after the Christmas holidays. Education ministry’s secondary education director Elias Markadjis said on Tuesday ...

A man appeared in court on Monday accused of stealing a lorry and driving it to the north but told the court he was “too drunk to be able to ...

The two men who killed 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city are still on the run, police inspector Huseyin Zaifer told a court in the north on Monday. ...

There is “no disagreement” between President Nikos Christodoulides and political party leaders on the Cyprus problem, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. Speaking after a National Council meeting held ...

A bill which would have legalised conscientious objection in the north was rejected by a majority vote in ‘parliament’ on Monday. The bill, which had been put forward by opposition ...

The Larnaca criminal court sentenced a man to 15 years in prison on Monday, for having attempted to import a total of 36 kilogrammes of cannabis into Cyprus. The man, a 47-year-old ...

Roads in the north are set to be included in Google Street View, while its profile on Google Earth and Google Maps will also be boosted. The news comes following ...

Hospitalisations of patients with Covid-19 have increased by almost in a third in the last week, Okypy spokesman Charalambos Charilaou said on Monday. Charilaou was speaking to CyBC radio and ...

The United Nations Secretary-general’s report into the current state of the Cyprus problem “could have been better”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday. Speaking at Epiphany celebrations in Larnaca, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday the “ultimate goal” of delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza is to allow Palestinians to remain there. Speaking at Epiphany celebrations in Larnaca, Christodoulides said “...

The various sides of Cypriot politics issued reactions on Saturday to Friday evening’s announcement of Colombian diplomat Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar as United Nations Secretary-general Antonio Guterres’ personal envoy ...

Theatre groups on Saturday pointed out “room for improvement” in the government’s “Thimeli” plan, which provides funding to performing arts groups in Cyprus. While grateful for the initial steps ...

Police in Limassol accused a man of attempting to supply just shy of two grammes of cannabis to a man who was being held in custody on Friday night. The ...

Ahmet Bozkurt, the owner of the Isias hotel in the Turkish city of Adiyaman, and his two sons Mehmet Fatih Bozkurt and Efe Bozkurt, saw their applications for release rejected ...