Tom Cleaver

Akel have put forward a bill which would ensure that undergraduate programmes taught in foreign languages at Cyprus’ public universities are free of charge for students. The matter was discussed ...

Engineers from public natural gas infrastructure company Etyfa on Wednesday conducted an on-site inspection of the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) Prometheas as part of the certification process for ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said the Turkic world would be “incomplete” without northern Cyprus. Addressing the day’s informal summit of the Organisation of Turkic States, which ...

It is “extremely important” for the Turkish Cypriot side to be involved in Cyprus’ accession to the Schengen zone, Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on ...

The north’s ruling coalition was on Tuesday lambasted by two opposition ‘MPs’ for the “reckless” and “ridiculous” policies they have followed regarding the matter of property. The debate comes ...

The Syrian people “can be sure that Cyprus will be by their side”, Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos said on Tuesday as European Union member states gave the green light to ...

Children and parents in the Karpas village of Yialousa staged a protest on Tuesday against the north’s ruling coalition days after a school bus overturned in the village leading ...

Serdar Denktash, the son of late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, on Tuesday said he is in the process of creating a new political party. Speaking to television channel Kanal ...

Forty-six-year-old Costas Soteriou was on Tuesday sentenced to 28 years in prison at the court on the British base of Dhekelia for the murder of Charalambos Constantinides. He was handed a “...

Bowel cancer screening kits are now being sent to men and women aged 74 years old across Cyprus, the health ministry said on Tuesday. A ministry spokesperson told the Cyprus Mail ...

Parliament is to prepare a “good practice manual” for the media, which will outline “good practices and appropriate vocabulary” regarding media reporting on diseases and people who have them. The ...

People born in the north to one Cypriot parent and one non-Cypriot parent on Monday took to the streets to demand that they be given citizenship of the Republic of ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday spoke to European commissioner for internal affairs Magnus Brunner about the matter of Cyprus’ planned accession to the Schengen zone. “We discussed Cyprus’ progress ...

People wishing to apply to take examinations with the aim of either being naturalised as citizens of the Republic of Cyprus or acquire long-term residence permits will be able to ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday said that President Nikos Christodoulides wants to “make us sit on his lap”. “I look into the man’s eyes, and I see ...

Former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, who was removed from office by a Supreme Constitutional Court ruling last September, on Monday launched his new political party, named ‘Alma’ – Greek for ‘leap’. The ...

The north’s ruling coalition on Friday changed its legislation regarding the purchase of real estate by non-Turkish Cypriots, allowing them to buy more properties. Foreign nationals are now allowed ...

The trial of the two former MPs facing criminal charges over a report by Al Jazeera into the alleged illegal naturalisations of people as citizens of the Republic of Cyprus, ...

The European parliament on Friday distanced itself from Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou’s visit to Moscow last week, saying that he and others who travelled to the Russian capital “did ...

Mixed reactions to the European Commission’s decision to appoint Johannes Hahn as its special envoy for the Cyprus problem have continued, with the United Nations “looking forward” to working ...

Teachers were locked out of a school in the north on Friday as relations between them and the north’s ruling coalition continue to sour over the ruling coalition’s ...

The Nicosia city council voted to approve the partial re-opening of Makarios Avenue to vehicle traffic, following a long deliberation that concluded late on Thursday night.  Councillors voted to open ...

Forrmer auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, who was removed from office by a Supreme Constitutional Court ruling last September, on Friday announced that he would form a “new political movement” on Monday. ...

A bill has been introduced to the United States’ congress which has among its aims the “strengthening” of the country’s “partnerships with Cyprus”. The bill, dubbed the ‘Eastern Mediterranean ...