Tom Cleaver

A school bus driver in Paphos tested positive for drugs on Thursday morning after undergoing a test ahead of a school trip. The police said they had attended the school ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s wife Sibel Tatar on Wednesday night issued a second condemnation of the north’s ruling coalition’s decision to legalise the wearing of hijabs ...

A total of 70 minors in Cyprus have been referred to treatment centres for substance abuse since the beginning of 2023, it was revealed on Wednesday. According to data from the Cyprus ...

Around 300 people on Wednesday evening joined a march to the Turkish embassy in northern Nicosia organised by the north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli to show “respect to the motherland”, ...

The remains of conscript Thanasis Nicolaou, who was murdered in 2005, are to be returned to his family within seven days, Limassol district court decided on Wednesday. Following an extremely tense ...

The government’s latest bill aimed at regulating traditional Easter bonfires, known as “lambriadjies”, will not be voted on by parliament before Easter. Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis’ final attempt to ...

Greek Cypriot political parties Disy and Akel on Wednesday hailed the gathering of 13,000 Turkish Cypriots on Tuesday night to protest against the legalisation of hijabs in public schools in the ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s wife Sibel Tatar on Wednesday came out against the north’s ruling coalition’s legalisation of the wearing of hijabs at schools, and said ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar will move into his new official residence in Ayios Dhometios on May 3, he said on Tuesday night. Speaking at the opening of a new museum, ...

Greece’s permanent representative to the United Nations Evangelos Sekeris on Tuesday praised the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unfcyp)’s “invaluable contribution to maintaining peace and security” on the ...

The north’s ruling coalition on Tuesday night for the second time legalised the wearing of hijabs by children at public schools in the north. Following a cabinet meeting, ‘government’ ...

An estimated 13,000 Turkish Cypriots took to the streets of northern Nicosia on Tuesday evening to protest against the ruling coalition’s attempts to legalise the wearing of hijabs and other ...

A 72-year-old British woman was found dead in the sea near the Kyrenia district town of Lapithos, the Turkish Cypriot police announced on Tuesday. The woman, named as Pauline Ann ...

Akel reacted with fury on Tuesday after a group of Famagusta schoolchildren were photographed performing Nazi salutes after the taking of their official class photograph. The incident occurred at the ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) and the state health services organisation (Okypy) owe millions of euros in unpaid administrative fees, the digital security authority’s assistant commissioner Petros Galides said ...

180,000 Brits in Cyprus may have overstayed their visas By Tom Cleaver Concerns were raised on Tuesday over the whereabouts of around 290,000 third-country nationals, including around 180,000 Britons, who arrived legally in ...

A 24-year-old man was on Monday sentenced to five years in prison after having been found guilty of illegally smuggling people into Cyprus. He had been arrested on April 13 last ...

The 45-year-old alleged ringleader of a bizarre criminal group, which has made headlines in recent weeks after using forged state seals and impersonating officials, has been handed over to the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday asked American multinational technology company Amazon to “participate substantially in Cyprus’ digital ecosystem”. Speaking after a meeting between Christodoulides and Amazon’s senior vice president ...

President Nikos Christodoulides spoke of how Cyprus can become an “emerging hub” for artificial intelligence on Tuesday. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said after a meeting between Christodoulides and OpenAI’s ...

A 78-year-old man crashed his car through a barber shop’s front door in Morphou on Monday evening, with his car coming to a halt inside the shop. According to ...

A new list of harsher sentences for crimes against animals appeared in the north’s official gazette, paving the way for those found guilty of crimes against animals to receive ...

CCTV cameras must be installed to “serve specific and legitimate purposes, in moderation, and must not become big brother”, data protection commissioner Irini Loizidou Nicolaidou said on Monday. She refuted ...

Investigations were ongoing on Monday into an attempted eviction of a group of third-country nationals from a block of flats in the Larnaca suburb of Oroklini where they were living, ...