Tom Cleaver

Justice Minister Anna Procopiou announced plans to prepare a national strategy for the protection and safeguarding of members of the LGBT community on Friday. Procopiou was speaking at an event ...

A 20-year-old man died on Friday morning after falling of an escalator at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport. The man, named as Atakan Kapusuz, was a Turkish national completing ...

Residents of the Lefka district have reacted angrily after a mouflon statue in the village of Karavostasi was desecrated. Lefka Tourism Association chairman Hasan Karlitas said on Friday that the ...

Turkish Cypriot police said that a total of 74 people have been arrested so far during investigations into the “fake prescription scandal”. The scandal concerns the alleged writing of fraudulent prescriptions ...

The foreign ministries of Cyprus and the United Kingdom have signed a memorandum of understanding, “establishing a strategic cooperation” between the two countries. The memorandum, signed on Thursday, covers a ...

Turkish Cypriot private radio stations owe public broadcaster BRT 10 million TL (€313,427), the corporation’s deputy transmitter coordinator Ugur Buhara said on Friday. Buhara’s statements come over warnings that private ...

In today’s episode, President Nikos Christodoulides said he would visit Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan if he was invited. In other news, the government wants the European Union to ...

The people of Karpasia have been “forgotten” by the north’s ‘health ministry’, local ‘MP’ Biray Hamzaogullari said on Thursday night. The opposition party CTP member’s intervention was part ...

A 19-year-old man was killed in a car crash in the Larnaca village of Pervolia on Thursday night at 11.55pm. Named as Michalis Theodorou, he was driving through the village ...

Turkish Cypriot private radio stations could be taken off the air at the end of the year due to reported unpaid debts accrued over a period of 12 years. The debt ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar said on Thursday that the north is “ready to share water with the Greek Cypriots should needs arise. Tatar was speaking at the Near East ...

Paphos is to invest over €9 million in restoration and renovation projects in the town and its surrounding area, following the signing of a contract on Thursday. The contract, signed between ...

A man who escaped to the Republic after causing a car crash in which a motorcyclist was seriously injured in November was arrested on Wednesday night. The arrest came as ...

A 68-year-old British national is in a critical condition after having been run over on Thursday morning in Paralimni. Famagusta district police press officer Steve Theodoulou explained that the incident ...

A 22-year-old man was arrested in Nicosia on Wednesday after being found to be in unlawful possession of methamphetamines and a gun. Police discovered the drugs during a traffic stop, ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested in the Paphos village of Chlorakas on Wednesday evening after being found driving with crystal methamphetamines in his car, and then testing positive for it ...

A 25-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and “causing concern”. Paphos police’s deputy chief of operations Michalis Nikolaou explained ...

The number of Covid-19 cases in Cyprus is once again on the rise and is expected to increase further over the holiday period, medical services director Elisavet Constantinou said on ...

The Civil Engineers’ Association of Cyprus (Spolmik) on Thursday called on lawmakers to act and create legislation for regular building inspections, in light of Wednesday’s balcony collapse in Limassol. ...

In today’s episode, it was revealed that a fish farm has been operating illegally for years in a Limassol village, destroying the environment around the Kouris dam. In other ...

British diplomat Peter Wilson, the Director General for Europe at the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office, met Ersin Tatar at the latter’s official residence on Wednesday evening. In a ...

A 27-year-old man was arrested in the Paphos village of Chlorakas on Wednesday evening after being found driving with crystal methamphetamines in his car, and then testing positive for it ...

Cable car lines will be built in Kyrenia, the north’s ‘tourism minister’ Fikri Ataoglu said on Wednesday. Addressing ‘parliament’ during ongoing discussions regarding the north’s ‘state’ budget for 2024, ...

Three managers of the Merit casino in northern Nicosia appeared in court on Wednesday after allegedly deducting “tax” from players’ winnings to the tune of 12 per cent, despite not having ...