Elias Hazou

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. ...

Are foreign nationals snapping up real estate in Cyprus at an increasing rate? Yes, the numbers show that unequivocally. Has the situation spun out of control, driving up property prices ...

Authorities on Thursday alerted the public to a new type of phone scam, where individuals impersonating police officers call people and ask for bank account information. According to a statement, ...

The trial of furloughed Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos resumed on Thursday, with the prosecution calling to the stand a number of witnesses acquainted with the alleged rape victim. Phedonos faces ...

A demonstration took place without incident outside the presidential palace late Thursday afternoon protesting the visit here by Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Organised by the Cyprus Peace Council and other ...

The interior ministry on Thursday provided a series of clarifications on two new schemes designed to boost affordable housing, announced earlier this week. The first scheme concerns the allocation of ...

An official on Tuesday blamed certain livestock farmers for any delays in restarting business in areas affected by foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) due to their failure to properly disinfect their premises. “...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, telling MPs that the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) could end up costing a great deal more than the €1.9 billion as advertised, ...

Lawmakers on Monday began reviewing proposed legislation requiring Cyprus to participate in an EU-wide centralised platform providing data on companies and financial institutions. Officials have prepared a dozen bills for ...

Parliament on Monday took a first look at a batch of bills aiming to rationalise and speed up hiring in the civil service, with MPs objecting to some of the ...

Government officials and MPs on Thursday revisited the matter of restricting property and land purchases by non-EU nationals, with one lawmaker saying that foreign nationals account for one-half of such ...

In a letter published on Thursday, the leader of opposition Akel has asked the finance minister how the entry of a French asset management firm in the Great Sea Interconnector (...

Lawmakers on Thursday continued seeking ways of barring recipients of Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) from gambling at casinos, amid an acknowledgment they have to tread carefully due to privacy considerations. ...