Tom Cleaver

Official figures compiled during the 2021 census show that Cyprus’ population is ageing. Exactly 17.2 per cent of people living in the Republic of Cyprus, a little over one in six, is ...

A 60-year-old man was arrested in the north after having stolen a caravan which had been parked in a car park, the Turkish Cypriot police said on Friday. The caravan ...

A woman was handed a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence on Thursday after being found guilty of driving the wrong way up a highway while drunk and killing an oncoming driver. The ...

Workers at airport handling company Goldair Handling went on an impromptu strike at Larnaca airport on Friday, impacting the inbound flight of Cypriot Olympic medallist Pavlos Kontides, among others. A ...

Cyprus’ sole Olympic medallist Pavlos Kontides was given a hero’s welcome upon his return to the island at Larnaca airport on Friday. The aeroplane on which he flew home ...

The customs department on Friday announced it had seized more than 3,000 counterfeit products, including football shirts and other items, from three shops in Ayia Napa. The other items included bags, ...

Bus tips onto its side in Famagusta A bus tipped onto its side while going around a roundabout in Famagusta on Friday morning. The bus was being used for private ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday said he endorsed a joint statement on Gaza released by the leaders of the United States, Egypt and Qatar. US President Joe Biden, Egyptian President ...

An earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale occurred in Famagusta in the early hours of Friday morning. According to the north’s met office, the earthquake took place around 19 kilometres ...

The north is “suffering major losses” in its tourism sector, former Cyprus Turkish tourism and travel agencies’ union (Kitsab) director Mustafa Soforoglu said on Friday. Speaking to news website Haber ...

Turkish Cypriot opposition political party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman on Thursday night challenged Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to a television debate, as their back-and-forth disagreement over the Cyprus problem ...

Conservation work at the mosque in the Larnaca district village of Alaminos is set to begin in the near future, Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage co-chairman Ali Tuncay said. He ...

By Tom Cleaver Students from the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) discussed matters related to the new student dormitories in Paphos with the town’s mayor Phedonas Phedonos on Thursday. ...

Environmentalists in central Cyprus have stated their opposition to plans to build a solar farm near the villages of Lythrodontas, Kataliontas and Mathiatis. The Cyprus Environmental Movement said on Tuesday ...

A Greek Cypriot was sentenced in the north on Thursday to 60 days in prison for attempting to help an accomplice cross to the Republic from the north with a fake ...

Analysis of the seawater off the coast of Yeroskipou has proven it to be clean, the Eastern Paphos municipality said on Thursday. The municipality said bathers had reported that “brown ...

Turkish Cypriots on Thursday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Tillyria in the village of Kokkina. The village of Kokkina is now controlled by the Turkish military but ...

Political leaders from the Famagusta district on Thursday called on President Nikos Christodoulides to meet with them with the aim of allowing the district to host conferences and other events ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday hit back at opposition party CTP leader Tufan Erhurman over the latter’s statements on the Cyprus problem, insisting that diplomacy on the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday held a telephone conversation with Jordanian King Abdullah II, during which they spoke about the “evolving situation” in the Middle East. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis ...

Turkey “has problems with all its neighbours”, Cyprus’ President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday. Speaking to French newspaper Le Figaro, he referenced former Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s foreign ...

A six-year-old child was left alone on a bus for around an hour after falling asleep on a school trip, police said on Thursday. Larnaca police spokesman Spyros Chrysostomou explained ...

Police spokesman Christos Andreou on Thursday went on the attack against the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) after the police had refused to work at a friendly match which took place ...

The police on Thursday announced they had seized various quantities of cannabis-based products from shops in Paphos earlier in the week. A total of two shops were raided, with police ...