Elias Hazou

Questions raised over helicopters leased by the government and the role of forestry department officials in their selection Three forestry department (FD) functionaries – suspended amid a police probe into dodgy ...

Stakeholders in the Cyprus issue held a series of meetings in New York throughout Thursday, followed by a working lunch hosted by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and rounded off with ...

The police chief on Thursday ordered the extension of the suspension of two officers – one male, the other female – suspected of engaging in sexual intercourse in broad daylight inside a ...

The EU commissioner for energy has dubbed the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) a project of “the utmost strategic significance” for Europe, according to media reports on Thursday. In an interview ...

The recently enacted law helping ‘trapped buyers’ to get a title deed “restores people’s confidence and safeguards the fundamental right to property”, the borrowers association said on Tuesday. The ...

The Chinese-led consortium which formerly held the contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal hit back on Monday at reports that it had delivered a ship with ...

Residents of Kambos village held a protest on Monday against what they see as unfair treatment in terms of economic assistance from the state. Protesters gathered outside the Paphos district ...

An MP on Monday asked the attorney-general’s office to hand over information on how many criminal prosecutions have been discontinued under the watch of attorney-general George Savvides and his ...

Amid a heated debate in the House on Thursday, MPs voted through a law introducing further restrictions on public gatherings and parades, giving the chief of police sweeping powers to ...

Parents and children’s guardians are now liable to monetary fines if the children are absent from nursery school without notification, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. If ...

In a judgement made public on Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled against an appeal filed by a Cypriot convicted of drug-related charges. “The applicant complained ...

Cyprus on Thursday took part in a virtual meeting of the ‘Coalition of the Willing’, where it reiterated its support for Ukraine. According to a statement, President Nikos Christodoulides participated ...

The government on Thursday got the green light from parliament to establish a national financial sanctions unit, part of the island’s commitments as an EU member-state. The relevant government ...

During its last session before the summer recess, the House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation aiming to rationalise the payment of multiple pensions to certain state officials. The bills ...

The energy regulator (Cera) said on Tuesday it’s awaiting a response from the finance ministry on whether to include a tariff on electricity bills for the first €25 million that ...

MPs hauled government officials over the coals on Tuesday after learning that the LNG import project at Vasiliko not only would not be ready by year’s end, as previously ...

The discovery of a natural gas reservoir at the Pegasus-1 site offshore Cyprus is “encouraging”, the energy minister said on Tuesday, a day after the government announced that drilling had ...

The government on Monday began accepting applications for the issuance of the European Union Blue Card for workers from outside the EU. The deputy ministry of migration said those eligible ...

Drilling at the Pegasus-1 well has detected a 350-metre column of natural gas, the government announced on Monday, giving no more clues about the significance of the find – but separately ...

A handwriting expert testifying in a criminal trial on Monday stated categorically that the defendant – a German woman facing charges of fraudulently transacting in real estate – did not fill out ...

Cyprus has charted a course full-steam ahead to joining the Schengen area, with the government insisting it can get to its destination by sometime next year. But amid the apparently ...

Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos on Thursday again defended the recent decision to partly reopen Makarios avenue to normal traffic, saying that singling out the municipality for criticism is hypocritical. Last ...

The defence in the ‘golden passports’ trial sought on Thursday to stun a prosecution witness by presenting him with a document purporting to show that former House president Demetri Syllouris ...

In keeping with past practice, parliamentarians on Thursday postponed voting on legislation on two hot-button issues, leaving the vote to the last session of the House plenary next week. The ...