Tom Cleaver

The fees levied on internet and telecommunications service providers by the north’s telecommunications department were all doubled, the north’s internet service providers’ association said on Tuesday. The association ...

Turkish Cypriots have reacted angrily to a reported deal struck between the Republic of Cyprus and tour operators to cut the number of overseas tourists visiting the north while on ...

All five faulty generators at the Teknecik power station outside Kyrenia have been repaired as of Friday morning, the north’s ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel said. Speaking to reporters, Ustel ...

Workers from the Turkish Cypriot Famagusta municipality have been given training on how to remove weeds from historical building and the town’s historical walls. The training was given by ...

While the ‘government’ and trade unions in the north find themselves at odds over whether controversial repairs to the north’s Teknecik power station have fixed its issues, local residents ...

“Damage is inevitable” to Cyprus’ electricity grid with the related power cuts a foreseeable consequence during times of heightened consumption, transmission system operator (TSO) spokeswoman Chara Kousiappa said on Friday. ...

The latest series of British reality television show The Only Way Is Essex has been filmed in Cyprus. The series, a mammoth 34th in total, which is set to hit ...

Two men were arrested on Thursday after starting a fire in a forest area near the Trooditissa picnic site close to Platres. The pair, aged 22 and 21, were found by police ...

A pilgrimage to the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque in Larnaca will take place ahead of Mawlid, the birthday of the prophet Mohamed, on September 12. Mawlid will be celebrated on September 15 ...

Police in Kyrenia arrested two would-be hitmen on Wednesday night, with the pair having allegedly travelled to the north to kill a “businessman”. Police officer Cemal Sanlier explained in court ...

The Greek Cypriot man who was arrested on suspicion of having stolen two caravans in the north was admitted to intensive care after falling ill, it was revealed on Thursday. ...

Ahmet Tugcu, the leader of the north’s electricity authority Kib-Tek’s employees’ trade union El-Sen, was arrested on Thursday night as chaos ensued over late-night attempts to fix faulty ...

There have been almost 1,400 applications for the north’s “migration amnesty” so far, the north’s ‘labour minister’ Sadik Gardiyanoglu said on Thursday. Speaking to Gunes Web TV, he said ...

The number of new students being registered at the north’s universities this academic year is 11 per cent lower than last year, it was revealed on Tuesday. A total of 12,180 ...

Turkish Cypriot politician Hasan Tacoy on Tuesday cried foul over the processes of voter registration for the leadership election taking place within his party and the north’s largest party ...

Six-time paralympic medallist swimmer Karolina Pelendritou will be Cyprus’ flagbearer at the Paralympic Games’ opening ceremony, the Cyprus Paralymic Committee announced on Tuesday. Pelendritou will be competing at her sixth ...

More than 110kg of waste was collected from three beaches across Cyprus during three separate cleanup operations organised by the “Keep our Sand and Sea Plastic Free” project. The cleanup ...

Turkey’s ruling AK Party on Tuesday announced Emre Kaya as its new “TRNC representative”. Kaya’s appointment was announced alongside the appointment of Erdal Yetimova as the party’s ...

The level of E. coli at Ayfilon beach near Rizokarpaso is off the scale, according to analysis published by the north’s ‘health ministry’ on Tuesday. The figures given stated ...

Serdal Gunduz, the 30-per-cent shareholder and secretary-general of the now-infamous Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in Morphou, who stands accused of 98 charges of fraud, falsifying documents, money laundering, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday pilloried Nicosia for actions he said put the entire island’s security at risk amid rising tensions in the Middle East, even accusing ...

The man who was arrested on suspicion of having stolen a caravan from the suburb of Yenikent in Kioneli is a Greek Cypriot, it emerged on Monday. The man appeared ...

Police in Famagusta on Monday announced the arrest of eight more people who had been living illegally in Cyprus following raids carried out over the weekend. Raids were conducted on ...

A total of 20 arrests have been made in the last two and a half months of people caught stealing unguarded items belonging to beachgoers at Finikoudes beach. The latest arrests ...