Tom Cleaver

Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north and the construction of buildings on it without the original owners’ consent is “a legal weapon which can be used”, Green party leader Stavros ...

The Cypriot government has reportedly rejected an Israeli request for Israeli EuroLeague basketball team Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv to play its home games on the island. According to Israeli sports ...

The case against 22 Turkish Cypriot teachers who stand accused of “battering” police officers during a protest in 2022 was on Wednesday adjourned until October 1. Wednesday’s hearing was the 12th thus ...

Two members of a bizarre criminal group which made headlines earlier in the year after using forged state seals and impersonating officials are to appear in Nicosia criminal court next ...

Former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, who was removed from office by a Supreme Constitutional Court ruling last September, is to give a new statement to the police next week regarding an ...

The Nicosia district development licencing directorate broke its own rules when adding a new floor onto the top of its headquarters, according to a report released by the audit office ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday night said he was “devastated” by the school shooting which took place in the Austrian city of Graz earlier in the day. “My thoughts are ...

Both Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar and the north’s ‘foreign ministry’ on Tuesday night expressed broad satisfaction with a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling regarding Greek Cypriot-owned ...

House energy committee chairman and Disy MP Kyriakos Hadjiyiannis on Tuesday lambasted President Nikos Christodoulides’ “highly illegal” intervention over the matter of forthcoming rises in electricity bills, describing it as ...

A 47-year-old man died after falling 23 metres from an under-construction building in Limassol on Tuesday, police said. The man, named as Georgian national Gela Katsidis, was working on the building’...

A Greek Cypriot man has been arrested in the north after allegedly having stolen a bicycle in the Republic, taken it to the north, and then traded it for a ...

Turkey’s environment ministry is to put out a tender to create a three-dimensional “digital twin” of the north, with the aim of the model being used to facilitate the ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Tuesday said the Turkish Cypriot authorities would begin to issue arrest warrants for people they accuse of using Turkish Cypriot property in ...

A new four-member church committee was elected in the Paphos district village of Tsada on Sunday, after the previous committee had been dismissed by the now deposed Paphos bishop Tychikos. ...

Nicosia’s central Selimiye mosque, one of Cyprus’ oldest and most beautiful landmarks, has reopened after spending five years under wraps as renovations were ongoing both inside and out. A ...

The north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel on Sunday decried President Nikos Christodoulides’ “aggressive, terroristic attitude” on the matter of property, in light of recent arrests made by the Republic ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is to attend the United Nations’ third ocean conference in the French Mediterranean city of Nice this week. Presidential press office director Victor Papadopoulos said on Sunday ...

A 75-year-old man suffered serious injuries on Saturday after attempting to cross a road in the Larnaca district village of Ormidia while a charity cycle race was ongoing and being ...

The 49-year-old German woman who stands accused of having sold Greek Cypriot property in the north on Friday told the Nicosia criminal court about the flight from Germany to Cyprus ...

Domestic workers from overseas who work in Cyprus are entitled to social insurance benefits while in the country and to pensions once they retire, even if they then leave the ...

United Nations envoy in Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin told Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis of a “failure to achieve the expected progress” on some issues related to the Cyprus problem, ...

Former Edek leader Marinoz Sizopoulos and former member of the European parliament Demetris Papadakis engaged in a heated argument on television on Friday, with the pair having been at loggerheads ...

Solutions to disagreements between teachers and the government regarding planned reforms to the ways in which teachers are evaluated “can be found in parliament”, the education ministry’s permanent secretary ...

The north’s ‘economy minister’ Olgun Amcaoglu on Thursday evening promised that “at least 28,000 new jobs” will be created as a result of the decision to relax laws relating to ...