Elias Hazou

In the trial concerning the suicide of Stylianos Constantinou, the defendants’ attorneys on Friday sought to discredit the testimony of a prosecution witness, describing as arbitrary her personal conclusion that ...

The trial proper in the ‘golden passports’ case is expected to proceed later this month, after the defence said on Friday that prosecutors had adequately explained some of the new ...

The anti-corruption authority has to date received some 900 complaints, and has examined about 70 per cent of them, its chairman said on Tuesday. Harris Poyadjis was speaking at the Cyprus Forum, ...

The government has activated a special clause allowing for emergency measures to be taken so that electricity supply can meet demand, as by 2030 Cyprus may face a severe supply gap, ...

The communities in the area earmarked as the site for the new central prisons said on Tuesday they will air their grievances directly to Justice Minister Costas Fitiris when they ...

Changes to the bill concerning the ‘first pillar’ of pension reform may be made after the legislation has been tabled to parliament, the labour minister said on Monday. Marinos Mousiouttas ...

The construction and hotel industries often complain about labour shortages, while labour unions counter-protest over the use of temporary hiring agencies which they say lead to poor treatment of foreign ...

A man was charged in a Scotland court on Thursday in connection with a disturbance he caused a day earlier during a Jet2 flight from Edinburgh to Cyprus. According to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides met on Thursday in New York with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, saying later that the UN chief is “considering” a three-way meeting, noting though that there ...

Presidential Commissioner Marios Hartsiotis may soon be stripped of the police escort directly assigned to him just this week, pending an ongoing security review for officials, reports said on Thursday. ...

Although the Cypriot economy has proved resilient to external shocks, posting positive growth numbers and low unemployment, it remains vulnerable to latent blind spots, the Fiscal Council said on Thursday. ...

Diko leader Nicholas Papadopoulos on Thursday kept up the pressure regarding his spat with Finance Minister Makis Keravnos, suggesting that the latter is insubordinate to the president and asking flat-out ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos on Tuesday cautioned against “alarmism” regarding rising fuel prices, while an energy expert predicted that high prices at the pump would persist until mid-2027. Speaking on ...

MPs on Monday pushed back hard against a government request for the release of €146,000 for a software application matching ID cards with unpaid traffic fines at checkpoints. The House finance ...

Reform of the pension system will cost the state more than €800 million overall over a six-year period, the labour minister said on Monday as the government continued talks with employers ...

Police on Thursday apprehended a 44-year-old man who earlier had hijacked a car at Paphos airport and crashed with at least one other vehicle. The incident reportedly took place early ...

Cypriot authorities participated in a VAT fraud investigation led by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (Eppo) across a number of European countries, it became known on Thursday. In Cyprus, ...

Waste treatment in Cyprus is a ‘ticking time bomb’, MPs heard on Thursday as officials admitted that the system in place can barely cope. Officials from the Environment Department described ...

MPs on Thursday demanded that the state pay up front for travel and accommodation expenses incurred by families where a person receives medical treatment abroad. The matter of overseas patient ...

The fiscal cost of the planned overhaul of the pension system will tally at “considerably more” than €50 million a year, Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas said on Thursday, while insisting that ...

MPs on Tuesday demanded an explicit timetable for the completion of the stalled LNG import project at Vasiliko, while the state-run entity in charge of it gave interested companies one ...

Nearly four in ten compensation applications for damage to property sustained in last year’s devastating Limassol wildfire have been rejected, according to information made public on Monday. The data ...

The new premises of the attorney-general’s offices are now costed at €23 million more than they were three years ago when the previous tender was scrapped, reports said on Monday. ...

The Public Service Commission (PSC) said on Monday it does not know how many exams will be carried out under a proposed new system for hiring in the civil service. ...