Elias Hazou

Amid calls for the resignations of the justice and agriculture ministers, the government on Monday continued dodging questions as to whether any senior officials would or should quit over last ...

An early warning system alerting people to the risk of fire near them was not activated during the devastating conflagration this week as Cyprus has no such system in place. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday thanked everyone who helped fight the raging wildfires in the Limassol district, stressing that preserving human life was the utmost priority throughout, while pledging financial ...

In the searing summer heat firefighters throughout Thursday continued to battle the blaze that incinerated an estimated 120 square kilometres in the Limassol district, with two people confirmed dead and at ...

Approximately 120 square kilometres of land has been burned in the Limassol district, according to a preliminary assessment given on Thursday. In a statement, the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence (University of ...

The new wildfire breaking out in the Paphos district on Thursday appeared to be in remission by early afternoon, but local authorities advised residents to remain on alert. The blaze ...

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 ...