Tom Cleaver

A total of 24 kilograms’ worth of various cannabis-based products were found and intercepted by officers from the customs department and the police in a shipment of packages which arrived at ...

The police on Sunday said they are investigating a hit-and-run incident which occurred in Limassol on Saturday evening. The incident reportedly took place at around 8.45pm, with a 25-year-old man ...

A 41-year-old man has been arrested after attempting to rob a bank as well as stealing registration plates in Larnaca, the police announced on Sunday. The man was arrested on ...

The north’s supreme court’s chief justice Bertan Ozerdag on Sunday renewed his call for a referendum to be held with a view to enacting sweeping reforms to the ...

Justice Minister Costas Firitis on Sunday said that he and the government are aiming for construction of the new central prison to begin by the end of the year. “Our ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday announced over €60 million in new spending on health infrastructure. The funding, he said, will be spent on “the second and third phases” of the Athalassa ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Sunday denied that there is only a “remote chance” of an enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem being convened during the summer, as efforts continue ...

A Cypriot-flagged ship was “blatantly attacked” by Iranian forces while attempting to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, the United States’ defence department’s central command said on Sunday. It explained ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed “deep concern” over advances made by Turkish and Turkish Cypriot personnel into the buffer zone near the village of Pyla, near Larnaca, in ...

Sunday’s weather will be mostly clear across most of the island for most of the day, with temperatures set to reach a high of 40 degrees Celsius inland. Those high ...

Temperatures are expected to hit 40C inland on Sunday, meteorologist Matthaios Papadakis said on Saturday, and the met office has issued a yellow warning for extreme maximum temperatures. According to ...

Fiscal council member Marios Clerides on Saturday said that Cyprus’ markets require “ethical banking”, as he weighed in on the prospect of a new cooperative bank being opened on the ...

Both President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman have demonstrated their “commitment to building a relationship based on trust” in recent months, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote ...

A 19-year-old male has been arrested in Limassol after the pickup truck he was driving collided with a police motorcycle and unseated the officer riding it, the police said on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman was discharged from hospital on Saturday morning, having remained under observation overnight, after having fallen ill at an art exhibition on Friday. His office said ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Saturday said that Cyprus remains “ashamed” of the Mari explosion, as he made a speech at a memorial event to mark its 15th anniversary. “We are ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman was on Friday evening taken by ambulance to hospital after falling ill at an art exhibition.  An ambulance had been called to the Quirini bastion ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman on Friday evening extolled the “harmony” of his cooperation with the Turkish government, as he met Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz at his official residence ...

Turkish Cypriot Ayios Sergios mayor Katip Demir was on Friday convicted of document forgery and sentenced to six months in prison. According to newspaper Ozgur Gazete, Demir had “forged a ...

The Turkish government and the Turkish Cypriot authorities on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding which foresees the construction of a natural gas pipeline between Turkey and Cyprus. According to ...

Cypriot lawyer Stephanie Laulhe-Shaelou was on Friday appointed as one of the 11 advocates-general to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), replacing the outgoing Nicholas Emiliou. She will serve in the ...

The union of municipalities on Friday threatened that municipal workers across the island may go on strike if the central government does not increase the grants given to local authorities. ...

Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou on Friday moved to defend his party’s decision to vote against a government bill which would have extended European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna’s ...

Questions regarding potential links between the lawyer of journalist Makarios Drousiotis, Leto Cariolou, and the investigator appointed by the anti-corruption authority to examine the allegations he had levelled in his ...