Tom Cleaver

The five Greek Cypriots who were arrested in the north last month were remanded for another seven days on Thursday and will likely enter pleas on August 21. All five briefly ...

The water development department on Wednesday urged the public to use water responsibly amid the ongoing heatwave. “The efficient use of water will contribute significantly to preserving the scarce water ...

The amount of water being consumed in the north is already reaching levels which were not expected until 2043, ‘agriculture minister’ Huseyin Cavus said on Wednesday. “We used 44 million cubic metres ...

The north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s general manager Dalman Aydin on Wednesday promised that the power cuts which have been plaguing the north since an explosion at a substation ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Wednesday issued a call for information regarding Greek Cypriots who went missing during the intercommunal conflict which broke out on the island in the 1960s ...

It is expected that there will be no power cuts on Wednesday night, electricity authority (EAC) spokeswoman Christina Papadopoulou said. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, she said a generator at ...

The journalists’ union on Wednesday accused the justice ministry of “vilifying” journalists after the ministry had released a statement “categorically” refuting a story which appeared on the front page of ...

The number of people crossing between Cyprus’ two sides has remained largely stable throughout the summer, despite fears in some quarters that crossings may drop in light of the arrest ...

A 17-year-old girl was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in Limassol in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the police said. According to the police, the girl was riding ...

Senegalese diplomat Khassim Diagne has been put forward as the United Nations’ new special representative in Cyprus, the Cyprus Mail understands. Diplomatic sources informed the Cyprus Mail that Diagne was ...

A red weather warning has been issued for Wednesday and Thursday, valid from 11am till 5pm. The Meteorological Department announced on Tuesday that temperatures on Wednesday are expected to peak ...

Employees of the north’s Koop Bank and its subsidiaries who went on strike after not being paid their salaries for the month of July on Tuesday broke into the ...

Costas Themistocleous, who served as agriculture minister between 1998 and 2003 under former president Glafcos Clerides, on Tuesday criticised former president Nicos Anastasiades’ recent intervention on the Cyprus problem, accusing him of ...

Police on Tuesday said they had made two more arrests in connection with the discovery of a large quantity of drugs during a search last month. One of the pair, ...

Cyprus welcomes the United States’ efforts to mediate between Ukraine and Russia with the aim of bringing the war in Ukraine to an end, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

Almost €140,000 has been paid by the government in salaries to a total of 126 workers who were unable to return to work as a result of the wildfire which tore through ...

The labour inspection department on Tuesday ordered that all outside work be suspended between 12pm and 4pm in areas impacted by the orange weather warning, with high temperatures forecast for ...

The continuous power cuts faced by the north after an explosion at a substation on Friday “would have been more widespread” were it not for the Republic stepping in to ...

Former Turkish Cypriot ‘prime minister’ Huseyin Ozgurgun’s son Salih Ozgurgun was arrested late on Monday night after arriving at the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport on an inbound flight ...

A new mobile desalination unit was on Monday put into service near Potima beach, in the Paphos village of Kissonerga. The unit will initially produce 2,000 cubic metres of water per ...

The office of the president on Monday praised the “self-sacrifice, bravery and selflessness” of Tasos Isaac and Solomos Solomou, who were killed during two separate demonstrations in the buffer zone ...

Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias on Monday said that the “physical and moral perpetrators” of the deaths of Tasos Isaac and Solomos Solomou, who were killed during two separate demonstrations ...

The justice ministry on Monday said it wished to “categorically refute” a report published on the front page of newspaper Haravgi which fiercely criticised the government’s record on corruption, ...

The Republic of Cyprus is providing electricity to the north on Monday, as the north’s energy woes continue into a fourth day following an explosion at a substation on ...