Elias Hazou

The health ministry on Thursday decided the cancellation of all scheduled non-urgent surgeries, and also commandeered bed capacity in private healthcare facilities – measures taken in anticipation of a potential surge ...

The attorney-general’s office has stayed the prosecution of a former municipal councilor and one-time Disy candidate for MP who had been charged with rape. Back in April Andreas Ttaouxis ...

The proposed new government legislation on pandemic management gives the health minister far-reaching powers, opposition parties said on Thursday, while the ruling party insisted the bill’s provisions are in ...

Lax checks by customs authorities at the crossing points have allowed contraband coming in from the north to outcompete merchants in the Republic, while also stripping the government of revenues ...

The fate of local government reform could hang in the balance this week, as MPs weigh the disparate demands and objections coming from several communities – and this amid fresh warnings ...

Unemployment has dropped to the lowest level in the last 20 years, while during the coronavirus situation the state has spent around €920 million in supporting employees and businesses, Labour Minister Zeta ...

Critics say proposed law bypasses House oversight and would entrench sweeping powers of health minister The new legislation dealing with pandemic-like situations raises a slew of red flags according to ...

The granting of civil servant status to four personal assistants of President Nicos Anastasiades was unlawful, the auditor-general said on Thursday as opposition MPs called it a ‘scandal’ and the ...

The House on Thursday passed a law changing the way in which political parties receive state aid. The legislative proposal – sponsored by Disy, Akel, Diko and the Greens – amends the ...

By unanimous vote, parliament on Thursday passed a law extending to the end of 2022 the protection afforded to ‘trapped’ property buyers. It means the protection now applies to buyers who ...

Both the government and political parties on Thursday sounded an upbeat note that the key hurdles in the way of local government reform have been overcome, with the relevant legislation ...

The health ministry announced 489 new Covid cases on Thursday from a total of 74,277 tests, representing a positivity rate of 0.66 per cent. No new fatalities were reported, with the death toll ...

The Renewable Energy Sources Fund will turn another deficit next year, and will again need to tap into its reserves to stay afloat. The fund’s budget for 2022 was discussed ...

Paphos police on Tuesday declined comment on allegations made by Mayor Phedonas Phedonos about an apartment block whose tenants included a drug dealer and a trafficker in migrants. “The police ...

Cyprus will use the means at its disposal – diplomatic and legal – to put pressure on Turkey over its actions on the high seas and in the fenced-off town of Varosha – ...

Major infrastructure projects will go ahead as planned in the next year, including the Paphos-Polis highway and the installation of charging stations for electric cars, the transport minister said Monday. ...

A group of experts on Monday decried the “complete lack of progress” from government and parliament alike in bringing forward new legislation to overhaul the current system – deemed ineffectual – of ...

An epidemiologist has sounded the alarm after discovering a sharp signal in excess deaths in Cyprus this year, and has called on authorities to urgently look into the matter, as ...

The consortium holding the concession on block 10 in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone are making final preparations for follow-up drilling to narrow down the precise quantities of natural gas in place, ...

President Nicos Anastasiades asserted on Tuesday that those attacking him over his handling of the peace process are in reality attacking the Greek Cypriots, pointing out that a recently leaked ...

The attorney-general’s office on Tuesday said it had no comment on its decision a day earlier to drop all charges against three individuals in the case of the so-called ‘...

The vessel with 61 irregular migrants which was intercepted a day earlier, departed Kato Paphos port late on Thursday without a departure permit, authorities said. According to the spokesman of the ...

Following another court injunction, socialist party Edek has called off until further notice two scheduled electoral processes, with the party leader accusing dissidents of deliberate sabotage. In a statement, party ...

The political controversy kept raging on Tuesday over four presidential assistants whose fixed contracts got converted to open-ended contracts, effectively giving them civil servant status – something explicitly proscribed by law ...