Elias Hazou

The state health services organisation (Okypy) keeps posting deficits, its budget continues to grow despite a sharp drop in the admission of patients, and it has lax controls over personnel, ...

The probe involving allegations of corruption against ex-president Nicos Anastasiades will be completed by the end of May, the head of the anti-corruption authority said on Thursday. Harris Poyiatzis was ...

The floating storage and regasification unit (Fsru), an integral component of the LNG project, is expected to remain in Malaysia for about two to three months, Energy Minister George Papanastasiou ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday discussed a bill that would criminalise market collusion, with its sponsor calling the legislation necessary as the government had failed in its duties. The legislative proposal was ...

Labour Minister Yiannis Panayiotou on Tuesday identified Apoel as the Nicosia football club hauled into court over non-payment of social insurance contributions, with the club later reacting angrily that it ...

Cyprus could up its spending cap if it convinces Brussels that the models the latter uses systematically ‘downgrade’ the island’s economic indices, the head of the Fiscal Council asserted ...

A Nicosia football club will be facing trial this week over the non-payment of €2.3 million in social insurance contributions, it emerged on Monday. It is apparently the first such trial ...

Football clubs that are wayward in their tax arrears will face the full brunt of the law, the tax commissioner said on Thursday. Sotiris Markidis said all actions pertaining to ...

Police were on Thursday investigating a case of attempted murder after an incident involving shots fired in Kornos, Larnaca, resulting in the serious injury of one person. The incident happened ...

Hundreds of demonstrators on Thursday afternoon booed Israeli president Isaac Herzog and shouted “killer go home” as he departed the presidential palace in Nicosia after a meeting there with President ...

Delivery of a technical report on the state of the floating, storage and regasification unit (Fsru) is expected “any day now”, the head of the natural gas infrastructure company said ...

The Turkish Cypriot side on Tuesday crowed that a draft six monthly report issued United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on the state of play in Cyprus contains not a ...

The average time to review applications for Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) has been cut to 60 days, the deputy welfare minister said on Tuesday. In a video message, Marilena Evangelou said ...

MPs on Tuesday decided to give the attorney-general’s office a fortnight for feedback on some loose ends relating to a bill changing the way in which Turkish Cypriot properties ...

Possible American assistance in upgrading Cyprus’ main airbase in Paphos and the naval base at Mari was discussed in Washington during President Nikos Christodoulides’ official visit there last October, the ...

Cyprus could face massive fines from the EU due to its shortcomings in the area of waste management, the environment commissioner warned on Thursday. Speaking to the public broascaster, Antonia ...

The basic salaries of civil servants, government employees and state officials will rise by 1.25 per cent as of January due to the Cost of Living Allowance, the finance ministry said ...

The government said on Tuesday it is taking all necessary steps to ensure the Paphos district has adequate water supply, after a desalination plant was taken offline. Andreas Gregoriou, a ...

The Audit Office confirmed on Tuesday that it has alerted EU authorities over potentially suspicious financial dealings relating to the project for the construction of a subsea power cable linking ...

The government said Monday it has implemented changes to the functioning of a small number of traffic cameras following complaints about drivers getting unfairly saddled with fines for violations. Alexis ...

The floating, storage and regasification unit (Fsru) is currently moored at the Strait of Malacca, Malaysia, where it’s undergoing technical checks, the energy minister said on Monday. George Papanastasiou ...

To call it a milepost year in anti-free speech might be taking it too far, but definitely 2024 had its fair share of such troubling incidents. But the more precedents are ...

Cctv cameras will be installed at 25 more schools across the country in January, an official with the education ministry confirmed on Tuesday. Speaking to daily Phileleftheros, Elias Markatzis said this ...

The floating, storage and regasification unit (Fsru) may head out to Greece and moor there for about a year until the LNG terminal in Cyprus is completed, reports said on ...