Tom Cleaver

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Monday met with the President of the Union of Cyprus Communities, Andreas Kitromilides. At the meeting, the pair spoke about local government reform, with both ...

A former ‘minister’ in the north appeared in court again in Morphou on Monday as part of investigation into irregular activities at universities. The man previously served as ‘education minister’ ...

A 25-year-old woman was sentenced to ten years in jail on Monday, after having attempted to smuggle around 9.5 kilograms of cannabis into the country. The woman had been arrested at ...

Zeki Celer was elected as leader of north opposition political party the TDP on Sunday. Celer was elected unopposed at the party’s conference, replacing Mine Atli in the role. ...

A donkey was run over by an ambulance near Rizokarpaso on Saturday night. The ambulance was being driven with a patient on board from the Rizokarpaso health centre to the ...

Crime per capita in Cyprus has risen for the second consecutive year, according to the police’s annual statistics report. The report shows that the “crime index”, the ratio of ...

The Nicosia Municipality has spent €11 million on social integration programmes in the last 12 years, Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis said on Friday. Speaking at a ceremony presenting the results to date of ...

Turkish energy company Aksa made $1 billion (€924 million) in profit in Cyprus since 2000, Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Mechanical Engineers chairman Ayer Yarkiner claimed on Friday. Yarkiner at a joint press conference ...

Turkish Cypriot authorities will carry out a full “academic audit” regarding the scandal of fake diplomas which has erupted in the north in recent days. Speaking at a press conference ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday promised to hold non-binding referenda in the near future. Speaking at an organised question and answer session with high school children, he said the government “...

Turkish Cypriot Nicosia Mayor Mehmet Harmanci said on Friday that a fight which broke out in the old town’s popular Zahra Street on Thursday night was a “mafia exercise”. ...

Three of Cyprus’ beaches were ranked in Europe’s top 25 beaches for 2024 by travel giant Tripadvisor. Highest ranking on the list was Nissi beach in Ayia Napa, in seventh place ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is set to hold his next meeting with United Nations Envoy Maria Angela Holguin on March 11, he said on Friday. Speaking to journalists, he said that on ...

The building which exploded in the Nicosia suburb of Engomi on Tuesday had not obtained the requisite permission to be converted into its current form, Engomi Mayor Zacharias Kyriakou said ...

In today’s episode, legislators dubbed the commercial development done in a protected area in Ayia Napa “a classic crime“. Meanwhile, the auditor-general will report the Cyprus Broadcasting Cooperation (CyBC) ...

A total of 140 kilograms of beef smuggled from the Republic were seized by police in the north on Thursday, with two arrests made. The first arrestee, a 55-year-old man, was ...

Renovation works have started on Kyrenia’s sea promenade, the town’s mayor Murat Senkul announced on Thursday evening. In a post on social media, Senkul said the area has ...

Another dead body was found off the coast of Cyprus on Thursday night, 20 nautical miles off the coast of Ayios Amvrosios. The body, a male, was found by the Turkish ...

Police in Limassol on Friday arrested a man for having committed a raft of crimes, including arson, writing death threats, and trafficking drugs. The man, aged 43 was arrested while travelling ...

A total of six lumps of human excrement were found in a school playground in Paphos on Wednesday morning. According to local news website PafosPress, the excrements were discovered outside ...

House interior committee chairman Aristos Damianou on Thursday called for a restructuring of the rules regarding semi-government organisations’ budgets. Specifically, he called for an end to the rule of “provisional ...

Implementing local government reform “is the government’s responsibility”, House President Annita Demetriou said on Thursday. Speaking following a meeting with Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on the matter, she said “...

Police in Paphos on Thursday arrested a fourth man in connection with a spate of robberies at churches in the area. The man, aged 44, is the father of the 16-year-old ...

Morphou Bishop Neofytos said he “honours” Russian President Vladimir Putin “at every liturgy” in an interview which surfaced on Thursday. Speaking to the Russian Tass news agency, he said, “President ...