Tom Cleaver

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin is expected to meet President Nikos Christodoulides on September 2, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. He told the Cyprus News Agency that Holguin ...

Children at schools across Cyprus will receive lessons on fire safety from retired firefighters during the forthcoming academic year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting ...

Ierokipia mayor Nikos Palios on Tuesday hailed President Nikos Christodoulides’ decision to donate his state pension to charity, with one of the chosen charities falling within his municipal boundaries. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will on Tuesday take part in three video calls discussing Monday night’s meeting of European leaders and United States President Donald Trump on the Ukraine war ...

The Amalthea plan, Cyprus’ humanitarian aid corridor to Gaza, returned to action late on Monday night, with the foreign ministry announcing on Tuesday morning the departure of 1,200 tonnes of humanitarian ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will on Tuesday take part in a video conference of European leaders in light of Monday night’s meeting of European leaders and United States President Donald ...

Employees of the north’s Koop Bank and its subsidiaries continued their strike into a second week on Monday, demanding that the company formally distance itself from a reported eight-item ...

A cabinet reshuffle is “a constitutional right held by the president of the Republic”, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday amid ongoing rumours that President Nikos Christodoulides will make ...

The Cyprus democratic lawyers’ association on Monday demanded that criminal charges be brought against a defence witness in the case of the five Greek Cypriots arrested in the north last ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s rhetoric “will intensify even more” as October’s Turkish Cypriot leadership election draws closer, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Monday. His comments come ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday decried the “unpunished murders” of the Turkish Cypriot residents of the village of Tochni, at a service held to mark the 51st anniversary ...

A Turkish Cypriot has been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, commonly known as mad cow disease, prompting the north’s veterinarians’ association to demand “urgent biosecurity measures”. People can contract ...

The north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Thursday night accused the Republic of Cyprus of intending to “mislead the public” in its reaction to the arrest of five Greek Cypriots in ...

The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north last month were remanded for another seven days on Thursday and will likely enter pleas on August 21. All five briefly ...

The water development department on Wednesday urged the public to use water responsibly amid the ongoing heatwave. “The efficient use of water will contribute significantly to preserving the scarce water ...

The amount of water being consumed in the north is already reaching levels which were not expected until 2043, ‘agriculture minister’ Huseyin Cavus said on Wednesday. “We used 44 million cubic metres ...

The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s general manager Dalman Aydin on Wednesday promised that the power cuts which have been plaguing the north since an explosion at a substation ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Wednesday issued a call for information regarding Greek Cypriots who went missing during the intercommunal conflict which broke out on the island in the 1960s ...

It is expected that there will be no power cuts on Wednesday night, electricity authority (EAC) spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulou said. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, she said a generator at ...

The journalists’ union on Wednesday accused the justice ministry of “vilifying” journalists after the ministry had released a statement “categorically” refuting a story which appeared on the front page of ...

The number of people crossing between Cyprus’ two sides has remained largely stable throughout the summer, despite fears in some quarters that crossings may drop in light of the arrest ...

A 17-year-old girl was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in Limassol in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the police said. According to the police, the girl was riding ...

Senegalese diplomat Khassim Diagne has been put forward as the United Nations’ new special representative in Cyprus, the Cyprus Mail understands. Diplomatic sources informed the Cyprus Mail that Diagne was ...

A red weather warning has been issued for Wednesday and Thursday, valid from 11am till 5pm. The Meteorological Department announced on Tuesday that temperatures on Wednesday are expected to peak ...