Elias Hazou

Fresh discussions on the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) will get underway after the Easter holiday, media reported on Monday, on the back of the release of an International Monetary ...

Drilling at the Elektra-1 well offshore Cyprus has found natural gas but not in marketable quantities, the energy ministry stated on Monday. “Well data and preliminary evaluation work indicate the ...

Cyprus should likely brace for impact from a potential global trade war kicked off by the United States. So says the smart money, although analysts add that the nature and ...

Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos on Thursday categorically denied that the municipality has imposed unofficial quotas on municipal traffic officers gauging their job performance based on the number of fines they ...

Parliament on Thursday passed a law ‘prohibiting’ the disconnection of solar panels, although some MPs cautioned that the benefit of this would be limited. The legislative proposal belonged to Disy ...

Around 20 taxi drivers gathered outside parliament on Thursday afternoon to protest against the conduct of the House transport committee when discussing issues of concern to urban taxis. The cab drivers ...

The creation, possession and distribution of AI-generated child pornography is now a criminal offence, carrying with it prison sentences of up to 15 years, under a law passed by parliament on ...

The House on Thursday enacted legislation creating the office of the patients advocate – a comprehensive mechanism to receive, process and make determinations on complaints filed by patients. Two relevant government ...

Workers at the Meteorology Department on Tuesday reiterated their strong objections to plans to relocate the department’s premises from Larnaca airport to Athalassa in Nicosia, going so far as ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld a prior ruling by a lower court which had voided a €25,000 administrative fine slapped on a brokerage firm executive by the Securities and ...

Only a small fraction of hotels and tourist accommodation establishments are fully licensed, MPs heard on Tuesday, while unlicensed businesses continue to operate with impunity, confident that the state will ...

Data published on Monday captured the scale of traffic congestion on the main roads of the island, with the Limassol bypass shown to be the busiest. Citing numbers obtained from ...

A senior functionary at the Audit Office has earned €260,000 since late 2019 when he was put on paid suspension after reveals that he and others had fraudulently established a company, media ...

The House plenum on Thursday evening approved the 2025 budget for the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) amid a lively debate over the delays in the advent of natural gas for ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to end the ‘hiring freeze’ on vacated permanent positions in the public sector, reversing a policy instituted twelve years ago. The repeal act ...

Women can now enlist voluntarily in the National Guard, for a minimum of six months, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. The law passed with 32 MPs voting in ...

The former Civil Registry and Migration Department was slow in processing applications for Cypriot citizenship and for permanent residence, as a result of which some 12,000 applications were pending at the ...

The three-member committee appointed to examine the recalls process for cars imported from the EU and third countries began its first public hearings on Thursday. The first witness to testify ...

Global movement to support the Palestinian struggle BDS Cyprus on Tuesday called on the government to deny access to Cyprus’ airspace to the plane carrying Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Football clubs that owe the state millions in tax have apparently received a new reprieve until the end of April to repay part of their debts, reports said on Tuesday. ...

The government on Monday revealed it is asking for an extra €70 million to complete works at the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Vasiliko, a project plagued by delays and ...

Bank depositors and bondholders whose savings were wiped out in the 2013 ‘haircut’ will receive a fraction of their losses as compensation, officials said in parliament on Monday. The House finance ...

Famagusta criminal court has acquitted all defendants of all charges relating to the alleged gang rape of a British female tourist in Ayia Napa in September 2023, it emerged on Monday. ...

Ending the hiring freeze on permanent jobs in the public sector is not in itself an adverse development but it has to be done in a considered way that doesn’...