Tom Cleaver

The Cyprus state scholarships foundation (Ikyk) has reportedly spent the last 15 years renting out a building valued at €615,000 for as little as €500 per month to the law firm which used ...

There is “no suspicion of disciplinary misconduct” regarding any public servant over the flooding of a drug storage warehouse last year, a report into the matter found. The report, which ...

The government plans to install an ATM at the Kykkos monastery, according to reports which surfaced on Friday. The monastery is one of ten planned locations outlined by the government ...

Oguzhan Hasipoglu was on Wednesday re-elected unopposed as secretary-general of the north’s largest political party the UBP, and after securing his re-election to the role called for Cyprus’ two ...

“We are not under anyone’s supervision, like Tatar is with Turkey,” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Speaking during a televised interview held to mark the completion of the ...

The European Union’s “white paper on the future of European defence”, which aims to forge a plan for the bloc and the continent at large to bolster its defensive ...

The number of crossings to the north made by Greek Cypriots fell by 15 per cent in the final three months of last year, compared to the same period in 2023, according ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday night gave a long, televised address in which he reviewed and appraised his second year in office, reassuring the public that he has acted with “...

Members of parliament on Wednesday expressed their bemusement at the government’s latest bill aimed at regulating traditional Easter bonfires, known as “lambradjies”. The House legal affairs committee examined the ...

Costas Patsalides, the 45-year-old alleged ringleader of a bizarre criminal group which made headlines in recent weeks after using forged state seals and impersonating officials, was on Wednesday remanded in ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Wednesday met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, completing the round of Cypriot leaders’ meetings with representatives of the island’s three guarantor ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday said he does not see the United Kingdom to be a neutral guarantor power of Cyprus. “I wanted the motherlands present at the ...

Cypriot members of the European Parliament on Tuesday called for Turkey to be excluded from the European Union’s plans to bolster its defence capabilities, with one MEP describing the ...

Colin Stewart, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ special representative in Cyprus, on Tuesday expressed hope that Cyprus’ two sides will “use the opportunity” of next week’s enlarged meeting ...

Restoration works at the mosque in the Larnaca district village of Alaminos have been completed, the bicommunal Technical committee on cultural heritage’s co-chairman Sotos Ktoris and Ali Tuncay announced ...

The House labour and human rights committees on Tuesday held a joint session to discuss apparent age-based discrimination leading to elderly people being overcharged for car insurance, among other problems. ...

The 45-year-old alleged ringleader of a bizarre criminal group which made headlines in recent weeks after using forged state seals and impersonating officials, Costas Patsalides was on Tuesday evening arrested ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday welcomed Greece’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tasos Chatzivasileiou to Nicosia, with the pair engaging in a discussion on “the latest developments in political issues”. Chatzivasileiou ...

The Saint George church in the Kyrenia district village of Vouno collapsed on Saturday night, prompting the village’s Turkish Cypriot mukhtar Durmus Asandir on Tuesday to take aim at ...

Roads will be closed in the centre of Larnaca following a fire which caused “catastrophic” damage to a listed building, the Larnaca municipality said on Tuesday. Sections of Mehmet Ali ...

Attorney-General George Savvides on Tuesday called for the law on harming animals to be amended. In an open letter to the government, he expressed concern at an “increasing rate of ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ on Monday resolved to create a committee to examine a request filed by the north’s chief public prosecutor’s office to lift the immunity of ...

Cyprus is to push for “no different treatment of invaders” with regard to the European Union’s plans to boost its military defences, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said on Monday, ...

Turkish Cypriot conscientious objector Halil Karapasaoglu on Monday announced that he had been informed by the police that he is once again to be charged with failing to complete his ...