Tom Cleaver

A second list of cemeteries which will undergo restoration in light of an agreement reached by President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar at the enlarged meeting on ...

Cyprus has “no intention”a to “create a confrontation with the Greek government” over the matter of the Great Sea Interconnector, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Friday. He had ...

Environment commissioner Antonia Theodosiou on Friday hit back and those who had criticised her for her appearance at Thursday’s joint session of the House agriculture, environment, and interior committees ...

Construction of a new water tank in the Nicosia suburb of Lakatamia has been completed. The tank is a “glass-lined steel tank”, meaning that it was constructed from steel panels ...

The water development department on Friday moved to defend itself after receiving criticism from MPs during Thursday’s session of the House audit committee. It said it has undertaken a “...

It is “inconceivable” that workers and employers are yet to reach an agreement over the future of the cost-of-living allowance, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Friday. Asked whether he ...

The prosecutor in the case of the five Greek Cypriots in the north accused of privacy violations, trespassing and breaching the peace at a civilian court in Trikomo on Friday ...

Students at Polis Chrysochous gymnasium and Kykkos A lyceum in Nicosia on Friday staged a walkout over broken fans and air conditioning units in the school’s classrooms, saying that ...

Women who complete voluntary service in the National Guard will pay half price for their university tuition if they subsequently enrol at a private university in Cyprus, Defence Minister Vasilis ...

Opposition Turkish Cypriot leadership election candidate Tufan Erhurman and former Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci both accused the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel of misinformation on Thursday, after Ustel ...

The Mavrokolympos reservoir, which was entirely drained in January to fix a corroded vent, has now reopened and is receiving water, the water development department’s deputy director-general Elena Finikaridou ...

Pafos FC’s Brazilian star David Luiz will undergo an MRI examination after suffering an injury during his side’s battling 0-0 draw away at Greek giants Olympiacos on Wednesday ...

The case regarding the alleged illegal entry of five Greek Cypriots into the north in July continued at northern Nicosia’s military court on Thursday, with the defendant who was ...

Sources from Turkey’s defence ministry were on Thursday quoted as having warned of “dangerous consequences” after the Republic of Cyprus took delivery of the Israeli Barak MX air defence ...

Turkish Cypriot ‘deputy prime minister’ Fikri Ataoglu on Tuesday called for snap ‘parliamentary’ elections to be held after the north’s budget is passed through its legislature at the end ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin on Wednesday visited two cemeteries which have undergone restorations since an agreement was reached by President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar ...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia mayor Mehmet Harmanci on Wednesday told United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin that the idea of a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem is an “illusion” and “...

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou on Wednesday accused Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis of attempting to introduce “big brother” into the audit office through the government’s planned reforms to the body. He ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Wednesday said there are “loopholes” which may allow Turkey to participate “indirectly” in the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (Safe) programme. Speaking after ...

The government has “no illusions” over the level of interest which will be shown by women in the offer of voluntary military service in the National Guard, Defence Minister Vasilis ...

Delinquency “starts in the family”, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Tuesday. Speaking at the opening of a new sports hall at a school in Paphos, she said that “not ...

Turkish parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus on Tuesday told a visiting contingent of over 150 Turkish Cypriot mukhtars that there is “no other way” to find a solution to the Cyprus problem ...

The issue of whether girls should be allowed to attend public schools in the north while wearing hijabs returned to the fore on Tuesday, with Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ ...

Energy Minister George Papanastasiou on Tuesday travelled to the State of Israel to meet his Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen. According to his ministry, he will participate in a “roundtable discussion ...