Tom Cleaver

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel questioned in a statement released on the occasion of World Peace Day whether Akel would still exist if Turkey had not invaded Cyprus ...

The European Commission should ask why the Great Sea Interconnector has not been completed, Finance Minister Makis Keravnos said. Speaking to newspaper Kathimerini, he made reference for the second time ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin’s planned visit to Cyprus on Monday was postponed. The postponement was confirmed to the Cyprus Mail by UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus spokesman ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Friday met his predecessor Mustafa Akinci in what is the pair’s first public meeting since a bitterly fought Turkish Cypriot leadership election in 2020. ...

Exactly 1,127 Syrian children aged between four and 18 years old have left Cyprus so far this year within the framework of Cyprus’ voluntary repatriation scheme, according to reports on Friday. The ...

The police officer who was working at the crossing point booth at which the five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north last month crossed before being arrested, appeared ...

Cypriot Cup winners Aek Larnaca will play English FA Cup winners Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park in this year’s Uefa Conference League’s league stage. The league phase’s ...

State health services organisation (Okypy) spokesman Charalambos Charilaou on Friday expressed fury at the police, after deputy police chief Panicos Stavrou had written in a memorandum to parliament on Thursday ...

School supplies have been donated to Greek Cypriot and Maronite children who attend schools in the north, the Pancyprian volunteerism coordinating council said on Friday. It said the supplies had ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition election candidate Tufan Erhurman on Friday responded to his opponent and incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s late-night attack on him, describing the statement as “angry ...

Former volunteer commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki, who pled guilty in April to three charges related to the circulation of forged documents and the knowledge that they were forged when doing so, ...

Fire brigade chief Nikos Longinos on Friday said he insists that the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last month may have been arson. Addressing ...

Major wildfires are “the new reality”, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Friday. In her address to the day’s joint session of the House agriculture, environment, and interior committees ...

Demetris and Maro Philippides, the elderly couple who died in the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district last month, “ignored instructions” given to them by the police, leading to ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou spoke of “unprecedented weather conditions” which exacerbated the wildfire which tore through the Limassol district and killed two people last month. Addressing a joint session of ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar late on Thursday night issued a 1,000-word statement attacking his opposition-backed election opponent Tufan Erhurman, saying that his “political success” is zero and accusing him ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the arrest of the man who stands accused of espionage, and the subsequent search of his apartment, were legal. According to newspaper Phileleftheros, ...

Cypriot champions Pafos FC have a mouthwatering tie ahead of them in this year’s Champions League, having been drawn to play German juggernaut Bayern Munich at home. Bayern Munich ...

The new road which will link Paphos and Polis Chrysochous will cost a total of €90.2 million plus value added tax, the public works department said on Thursday. It explained that ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Thursday said she “unequivocally” condemns a missile attack launched by Russia on the European Union’s mission in Kyiv earlier in the day. “Today, Kyiv ...

Former Greek deputy foreign minister Tasos Chatzivasileiou on Wednesday night called on the European Union and its member states to “not forget” Cyprus in conversations concerning the future of defence ...

The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north last month were on Thursday taken back to the crossing point through which they entered the north on the day ...

A 51-year-old man was on Thursday handed two consecutive life sentences for the murder of 51-year-old Michalis Michael and 44-year-old Marios Onisiforou in the Limassol suburb of Ypsonas 2023. Meanwhile, his 56...

Nicosia should be “a model of equality, inclusion, and universal accessibility”, Cyprus confederation of disability organisations (Kysoa) chairwoman Themis Anthopoulou said. Speaking after a meeting with the capital’s mayor ...