Tom Cleaver

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday said that it is “out of the question for me to remain silent” amid the arrests being made by the Republic of Cyprus ...

The International Monetary Fund warned Cyprus over its “inflated” public sector wage bill in its annual Article IV consultation – an economical health check – on the island. The report wrote that ...

Former transport minister Marios Demetriades on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charges he faces in relation to “suspicious” naturalisations of new Cypriot citizens under Cyprus’ citizenship through investment scheme, commonly ...

The Limassol district government on Wednesday called on people living in the district to “demonstrate responsibility” in their water use over the Kataklysmos weekend. The Kataklysmos (flood festival) weekend, one ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Wednesday said she is “looking after every last taxpayer euro” following an audit office report revealed she had claimed almost €19,000 in expenses for a three-night ...

The criminal case against a policeman who was found to be leaking information to murdered gang member Demetris Andronikou was dropped on Wednesday, with the policeman returning to work. According ...

Serdar Denktash, the son of influential late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, on Wednesday said that every time incumbent Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar speaks, he feels ashamed. “Every time ...

The Larnaca municipality has announced the signing of a contract worth around €600,000 to create a “smart parking system” in the town. The contract was signed by the town’s mayor ...

A bill has been tabled in the United Kingdom’s parliament with the aim of allowing direct flights between the country and northern Cyprus. The bill, an “early day motion”, ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Tuesday once again insisted that the arrests made by the Republic of Cyprus of people accused of selling Greek Cypriot-owned property in the north are ...

A fake news scam which has circulated on social media in recent weeks has posed as the Cyprus Mail and Cypriot businessman Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. The website, hosted at “zenform....

The electricity authority (EAC) is to propose a 3 per cent increase in the price of electricity paid by consumers, its chairman George Petrou said on Tuesday. The plan comes after ...

House president Annita Demetriou spent over €15,000 for luxury hotel rooms for three nights for those accompanying her on a trip to London, according to a report released by the audit ...

Energy Minister Geroge Papanastasiou on Tuesday praised the “common political will” of his eight counterparts from the European Union’s other ‘Med9’ states to “promote a coherent green development strategy”. ...

The Cyprus securities and exchange commission (CySEC) on Tuesday said it is “taking practical steps to collect all the available data and information” before deciding whether it will investigate claims ...

United Nations envoy Maria Angela Holguin will meet Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis in Athens on Thursday, according to reports. The Cyprus News Agency reported that Holguin will meet Gerapetritis ...

Nursery school workers across Cyprus went on strike on Tuesday, demanding better pay and conditions. Their trade unions, Paseu-Peo and Ouuk-Sek, said on Tuesday morning that they had sent various ...

The north’s ‘parliament’ voted in the early hours of Tuesday morning to relax its laws relating to the operation of casinos, following a full day of arguments over the ...

The construction of a new port in the Limassol district village of Pentakomo would have “immediate and irreversible environmental impacts”, ornithological charity BirdLife Cyprus’ campaign coordinator Tasos Shialis said on ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar formally kicked off his campaign to win re-election on Monday evening, bringing together the three political parties which have endorsed his campaign for his first ...

It was outside the police’s remit to inform the road safety council of links between potentially faulty airbags and fatalities on Cyprus’ roads, the police’s traffic department director ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli on Monday called for the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport to be treated as a Turkish airport, suggesting that the move may allow ...

Parents of people killed in car accidents due to faulty airbags manufactured by Japanese company Takata decried the “cheap excuses” offered by current and former state officials called to testify ...

The government’s ‘e-Kalathi’ application is “fully ready”, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Monday. “The application is full ready, as the consumer protection service, which is the competent agency ...