Tom Cleaver

A solution to the Cyprus problem is now an “urgent necessity”, Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman said on Wednesday. Speaking to the north’s public broadcaster ...

The European Commission on Wednesday sent a reasoned opinion to Cyprus and seven other European Union member states over their failure to transpose into their national legal systems EU laws ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday congratulated Constantine Tassoulas on his election as president of Greece. “I express my warmest congratulations to Constantine Tassoulas on his election to the highest office,” ...

Paramedics belonging to trade union Isotita will refuse to work overtime between February 17 and February 23, in protest at what they describe as the “continuous understaffing” of the ambulance service. The ...

Banks in Cyprus must implement increased due diligence measures when conducting background checks on politically exposed persons, a Central Bank of Cyprus representative said on Wednesday. Addressing the House ethics ...

The police believe that a fire which was started in a three-generation house in Paphos’ Universal area may have been started maliciously, Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou ...

The trial of three of the four suspects arrested in connection with an alleged attempted murder in the Larnaca village of Kornos will begin on March 12. The trio, all males ...

Akel on Tuesday decried what it described as an “Islamic agenda” after a report was sent to Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz demanding that more religion classes be taught in ...

The aim of next month’s wider meeting on the Cyprus problem in the Swiss city of Geneva is to “resume talks from where they were interrupted in the summer ...

Turkish Cypriots on Tuesday bade their final farewell to businessman Asil Nadir at his funeral. The funeral took place in three stages, with high-profile figures from Turkish Cypriot politics as ...

Bomb threats were sent to more than 300 state and private schools in Cyprus on Tuesday morning, the police confirmed. A police spokesperson confirmed to the Cyprus Mail that the threats ...

Plans are afoot to link Paphos’ Tombs of the Kings and Coral Bay beach with a dual carriageway, Akamas mayor Marinos Lambrou said on Tuesday. Speaking to Paphos-based news website ...

A 75-year-old man died on Tuesday morning after being involved in a traffic accident in Larnaca. Larnaca police spokesman Christodoulos Konsolos said the man, named as Rodotheos Skordis, was driving ...

All “main artery roads” in the north will be lit with streetlights by the end of the year, the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said on Monday. Speaking in ‘...

The number of complaints made by patients to patients’ associations Osak’s observatory in January was 17 per cent higher in January this year than it was in the first month ...

Two men, aged 27 years old and 19 years old, appeared in court on Monday after having been arrested for allegedly attacking a footballer in the car park of a football ground ...

High-profile figures within the Turkish Cypriot community on Monday issued statements remembering the life of businessman Asil Nadir, who died on Sunday night at the age of 83. Turkish Cypriot leader ...

An enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem, involving both the island’s communities as well as all three guarantor powers and the United Nations, will go ahead in the Swiss ...

Controversial Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir died on Sunday night at the age of 83. Nadir rose to prominence in the United Kingdom when he transformed textile company Polly Peck into ...

A total of 17,000 Russian nationals have applied for consular services at the office in northern Nicosia which provides those services, the country’s ambassador in Nicosia Murat Zyazikov said on ...

Trade unions and political parties in the north have reacted with fury after the Cyprus Turkish educators’ union (Kibtes) sent a six-page report to Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz demanding ...

Teachers’ trade unions are to study the government’s proposal for a new system of evaluating teachers, they said on Saturday. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou had unveiled the proposal on ...

Hosting this year’s Eurobasket is an “investment in Cypriot sport”, President Nikos Christodoulides said, Speaking to Greek sports website Sport24, he spoke of his love for basketball and the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is “intensifying pressure” on Turkey on the issue of Cyprus’ missing persons, the government’s humanitarian affairs director Anna Aristotelous said on Saturday. Addressing a meeting of ...