Elias Hazou

Chicanery or sheer stupidity – the question some MPs posed this week as to how Cyprus got tangled in the whole LNG farrago in awarding the contract to the Chinese-led consortium. ...

The total cost of restoring structures damaged during July’s inferno in Limassol district comes to around €40 million, the Scientific and Technical Chamber (Etek) said on Tuesday. In a statement, ...

Foreign nationals are increasingly snapping up immovable property in Cyprus, accounting for over a quarter of all property sales in 2024, although that ratio is likely an undercount, a report released ...

MPs on Monday voiced astonishment at the red tape and procedural rigmarole in the civil service hampering the sharing of information regarding sexual harassment complaints made against a senior official ...

Reaction from opposition figures to a circular sent by the interior ministry to every municipality and village demanding the removal of any anti-Israel graffiti was “excessive”, deputy government spokesman Yiannis ...

Every day some 60,000 cubic metres of desalinated water has to be re-processed as it does not end up in the general water supply, MPs heard on Thursday. The reveal was ...

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou on Thursday continued pushing back at government legislation which has the stated aim of introducing reforms to the Audit Office, saying the proposals would end up “paralysing” ...

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Osce) has delivered a damning report on a law passed in Cyprus this summer regulating public gatherings and parades, calling many of ...

MPs on Tuesday decried the vast trade imbalance between Cyprus and China, with the trade surplus for the East Asian country said to be in the range of €1 billion. At ...

A bill which would do away with MPs’ blanket immunity from prosecution has been gathering dust for some 12 years as it lacks the required support in parliament, media reports said ...

Both Finance Minister Makis Keravnos and the organisation representing employers and industrialists expressed confidence on Tuesday that the roadmap for the planned tax reform is on schedule. The planned tax ...

MPs got flustered on Monday on hearing from authorities that they do not know if an ex-member of the secret service, who allegedly threatened a woman on social media, has ...

The doctors’ union Pasyki on Monday expressed strong opposition to the transfer of civil servants to other departments without a time limit in a note to the House finance committee, ...

Lawyers and accountants have filed a torrent of objections to the proposed tax reform which, were their suggestions to be adopted, would upend the government blueprint. They filed their comments ...

The trial of ten people and companies, including former transport minister Marios Demetriades, in connection with the issuance of Cypriot passports to foreign nationals was adjourned for three months by ...

This week saw the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) get bogged down in more than just substantive questions over its viability. Full-on information warfare broke out: the Greek prime minister ‘called ...

The Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) announced on Thursday it has launched a probe into practices distorting competition relating to the acquisition of ExxonMobil’s share capital by ...

The two defendants in the ongoing ‘golden passports’ trial insisted on Thursday that they are innocent of all charges, that they broke no law nor done anything untoward. Former House ...

Overall tax revenues have risen considerably over the last few years, although tax arrears continue to be high, MPs heard on Thursday. The House audit committee was discussing the auditor-general’...

Cyprus was brought to a standstill on Thursday, as thousands of workers staged a nationwide strike outside the finance ministry, chanting “Hands off CoLA” and “CoLA for all workers,” demanding ...

MPs on Tuesday gave the government a two-week deadline to enforce the law – which they say obliges car dealers to check and replace faulty Takata airbags free of charge – otherwise ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an application by a prison warden, who is a suspect in an ongoing criminal case, to annul a previous court order authorising the seizure of ...

Israel remains committed to the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), an Israeli government official told local media on Tuesday, amid apparent discord between Cyprus and Greece over the mammoth project. An ...

Civil servants will be able to work from home but will need permission to do so from their superior, under a bill regulating teleworking discussed in parliament on Monday. The ...