Work completed on several important monuments
The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage announced on Friday the completion of conservation works on important monuments and announced that it plans on working on...
Karpas
Coronavirus: enclaved families will spend Christmas apart due to north measures
The stricter measures taken by the Turkish Cypriot authorities against the spread of coronavirus have separated enclaved families who will spend Christmas apart, Rizokarpaso community...
Coronavirus: Photiou holds extraordinary meeting on enclaved (Updated)
The Presidential Commissioner’s office decided on Friday to form a small group to advise enclaved Greek Cypriots living in the Turkish-occupied Karpas peninsula, on self-protection...
Coronavirus: Four more case in north, confusion over villages’ lockdown (Update 1)
Turkish Cypriot health authorities announced four more cases of Covid-19 on Friday in two villages in the Karpas peninsula. One case announced earlier the day...
Yavuz drillship due to return to Karpas area
The Turkish drillship Yavuz is due to return to the Karpas area off the northeastern coast after completion of maintenance work off Mersin in southern...
Call for Karpas donkeys to be corralled
Following the recent increase in traffic accidents caused due to donkeys roaming free in the roads of the Karpas peninsula in the north, an association...
Property rights of enclaved to be discussed in Strasbourg
Violations of the property rights of enclaved Greek Cypriots living in the occupied Karpas peninsula are not limited to the few hundred people that remain...
Ancient Karpas mosaics restored
Greek and Turkish Cypriot archaeologists have finished cleaning and stabilising the ancient mosaics adorning the floor of the ancient Ayia Triada Basilica in the Karpas...
Ayia Triada in Karpas to hold special church service on Kataklysmos
The community council of Ayia Triada announced that a liturgy will be carried out on Kataklysmos (Whit Monday) at the village church in the north....
Home-repair assistance worth €1.3m allocated for the enclaved
The cabinet on Wednesday approved €1.3 million in financial assistance for enclaved persons in the north to repair and upgrade their homes. The decision was...
Turkish Cypriot elected president of parents’ association at Karpas school
For the first time in 42 years, a Turkish Cypriot Çiler Shambi was elected president of the parents’ association at the Rizokarpaso Gymnasium, press reports...
Beach chalets removed from Karpasia beach
For over a year, Turkish Cypriot courts and northern Cyprus’ environment protection office have been working in tandem to close down the wooden chalet sites...
Karpas skull identified as Ottoman
A skull found on Monday in an area called Elisi, between Ayios Symeon and Korovia on the Karpas peninsula in the north, is thought to...
Cabinet approves support schemes for enclaved farmers
The cabinet approved on Wednesday two support schemes with the total budget of almost €1m for enclaved farmers and fishermen. According to Agriculture Minister, Nicos...
Growing interest in resettling in Karpas peninsula
There is increased interest from people from the Karpas peninsula in the north to resettle there and the government is seeking ways to encourage more...
Restored Apostolos Andreas monastery to be delivered on Monday
The restored monastery of Apostolos Andreas in the Karpas peninsula in the north will be delivered on Monday to the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage....
Remains found by CMP near Livadia, Karpas
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) announced Thursday the discovery, in an area near the village of Livadia in the Karpas, of the remains of...
Turkish Cypriot cattle suffering from LSD
Reports from the north on Wednesday said vets were concerned over an increase in Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) among herds of cattle in Ayios Andronikos,...
Church starts monastery clean-up ahead of works
By Rafaella Georgiou Restoration work on the Apostolos Andreas monastery in Karpasia should begin immediately, Archibishop Chrysostomos said on Wednesday, now that a deal had...
Contract signed for Apostolos Andreas restoration phase one
By George Psyllides The bicommunal committee on cultural heritage and the United Nations announced on Tuesday the signing of the contract for phase one of...