Elias Hazou

Poor bookkeeping and inadequate internal audits at the transport ministry and the Road Transport Department have led to a situation where the government doesn’t have a handle on what ...

Despite heavy rains over the weekend, no significant amount of water flowed into the reservoirs of the Paphos district, the Water Development Department said on Monday. But the WDD’s ...

The Real Estate Agents Registration Council said on Monday that its president has personally received threats from criminal elements to withdraw a complaint filed against a real estate agent alleged ...

Public safety and faster delivery of justice will be among the top priorities of his ministry, the new justice minister pledged on Monday. Constantinos Fitiris made the remarks during the ...

MPs literally have their work cut out for them as the clock winds down on the calendar year, before the end of which the government expects them to have passed ...

The cabinet has been stripped of the authority to grant citizenship to foreign investors, under a law passed on Thursday during the last regular session of the House plenary this ...

Cyprus plans to set up an organised crime division within the police, the justice minister revealed on Thursday, but would not give a timeframe for the operation of the new ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Thursday called on MPs to pass the 2026 state budget, describing it as “an investment in the future of our country”. In a speech at the ...

The company operating traffic cameras across Cyprus gets paid a fixed, pre-agreed rate that does not depend on the number of recorded traffic violations, the transport ministry said on Tuesday, ...

The police’s efforts to procure anti-drone systems turned into a fiasco dragging on for seven years, until finally the endeavour was dropped altogether, the Audit Office said in a ...

An Akel MP has tabled legislation to tackle the phenomenon of ‘deepfakes’ and AI manipulation of audio-visual material. The bill from Akel’s Christos Christofides would make a criminal offence ...

Major disagreements came to the fore in parliament on Monday, as MPs and interest groups continued debating six government bills comprising the proposed tax reform. One point of contention relates ...

A consensus appeared to take shape in parliament on Monday over amendments to a law regulating public gatherings and parades, which critics have called draconian. The law had been passed ...

The cabinet on Thursday green-lit the armaments which Cyprus intends to procure via the Security Action for Europe (Safe) programme. The list of armaments was prepared by the defence ministry. ...

MPs on Thursday grumbled about the defence ministry lacking a building of its own, continuing to be housed in rented premises costing some €800,000 a year. The matter came up during ...

MPs decided on Thursday to postpone by a week a vote on whether to accept or reject the president’s referral of a law concerning an increase in the MOT ...

Police in Limassol were on Thursday intensifying investigations into a series of arson attacks that gutted four vehicles valued at over €1.5 million, among them a Lamborghini, in an incident possibly ...

Cyprus retains the capacity to service its debt, the European Commission said in its latest post-programme surveillance assessment published on Tuesday.The Commission carries out a post-programme surveillance (PPS) twice ...

By Johanna Pauls and Elias Hazou People who are dead and would be 150 if they were alive are named on rental contracts for Turkish Cypriot properties, the House refugees committee ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday reiterated that the deputy attorney-general has not submitted his resignation as rumours continued to swirl that the law enforcement official had wanted to quit but ...

The US government on Monday removed five Cyprus-related individuals and three legal entities from its list of nationals designated as having engaged in “harmful foreign activities of the Russian Federation”. ...

Actual expenditures and revenues so far this year have been lower than the average of the past decade, the state treasury said on Monday. In a briefing, the treasury provided ...

The administrative court has issued another interim ruling upholding a 2022 cabinet decision to revoke the Cypriot citizenship of people included on an EU sanctions list concerning Ukraine, the attorney-general’s ...

Is the Great Sea Interconnector unraveling? It depends who you ask. Last week’s talks in Athens, where it was decided to “update the techno-economic” parameters, was seen by many ...