Tom Cleaver

Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat was “taken hostage” when he was arrested in Italy, Turkish Cypriot Bar Association chairman Hasan Esendagli said on Thursday. Kursat was arrested while on holiday ...

Police on Thursday announced the arrest of a 22-year-old man in connection with the throwing of a firecracker at a footballer during a match on Tuesday. He was later remanded ...

The north’s population is now over a million, the Turkish Cypriot Mukhtars’ Association chairman Akay Darbaz said on Wednesday. Speaking to Yeni Duzen, Darbaz said the information he had ...

A “new” electricity generator delivered to the north by Turkish energy company Aksa is actually 25 years old, it has been claimed. The generator is due to be installed at the ...

A man who attempted to burgle a house before falling asleep drunk on his victim’s kitchen floor was sentenced to three and a half years in jail on Wednesday. ...

A batch of the antiviral Covid-19 drug Paxlovid will be “immediately” shipped to Cyprus from Greece, the health ministry said on Wednesday. A separate batch had been due to arrive ...

The north’s Communicable Diseases Committee on Wednesday reinstated the mandatory wearing of face masks in some locations. People visiting care homes, hospitals and prisons, as well as care home ...

Advertising hoardings were removed from the Alagadi area on Wednesday. Alagadi beach is famous island wide as a landing and hatching beach for sea turtles, and the area had been ...

The 35-year-old woman who crashed her car into a police car as they attempted to arrest her was still on the run on Wednesday. Police fired shots at the car’...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved legislation to implement the European Blue Card scheme in Cyprus. The scheme, touted as Europe’s answer to the United States’ green card, aims to encourage ...

The two men accused of murdering 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city were on Wednesday jailed for three months pending their trial. In court, it was once again ...

The village of Louroujina currently has no ambulance service coverage, the north’s former ‘health minister’ Filiz Besim said on Wednesday. Besim said that due to the closure of the ...

A man appeared in court in Kyrenia on Tuesday accused of attacking someone with scissors after the victim cursed his mother. The attacker and victim were reportedly friends and had ...

The man who was “too drunk to remember” stealing a lorry in the Republic and driving it through Louroujina to the north is of “full mental capacity”, it was heard ...

Municipalities in Nicosia are to confiscate electric scooters if they are left “abandoned” in public places, it emerged on Tuesday. Following mounting complaints from the capital’s residents, a meeting ...

The Meritta Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Centre announced on Tuesday it had released three turtles, which had been receiving treatment, back into the sea. The turtles, named Tontik, Jale and Omer, ...

Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Tuesday denied reports that the Greek government had intervened to force President Nikos Christodoulides to remove former Defence Minister Michalis Giorgallas from his post. Speaking ...

The government is “in constant contact” with the United Kingdom regarding the use of the British bases on the island, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. Asked at a ...

British High Commissioner in Cyprus Irfan Siddiq on Tuesday encouraged British nationals living on the island to register to vote in their country’s elections. Following a decision announced in ...

An attempted murder took place in Aglandjia on Monday evening, police confirmed. In a statement, they confirmed they were investigating a case of attempted murder after shots were fired at ...

British citizens living outside their country, among whom over 40,000 are believed to live in Cyprus, are to be handed the vote in their country’s elections, following an announcement by ...

The north on Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the death of Dr Fazil Kucuk, the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus. A ceremony attended by the great ...

New Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis pledged to strengthen the police force during his first visit to their Nicosia headquarters on Monday. He said frontline police services will “inevitably” be strengthened ...

Cyprus needs an astonishing 86 years to reach full and meaningful gender equality, Gender Equality Commissioner Josie Christodoulou said on Monday. Christodoulou was speaking at the unveiling of the government’s ...