Elias Hazou

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to end the ‘hiring freeze’ on vacated permanent positions in the public sector, reversing a policy instituted twelve years ago. The repeal act ...

Women can now enlist voluntarily in the National Guard, for a minimum of six months, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. The law passed with 32 MPs voting in ...

The former Civil Registry and Migration Department was slow in processing applications for Cypriot citizenship and for permanent residence, as a result of which some 12,000 applications were pending at the ...

The three-member committee appointed to examine the recalls process for cars imported from the EU and third countries began its first public hearings on Thursday. The first witness to testify ...

Global movement to support the Palestinian struggle BDS Cyprus on Tuesday called on the government to deny access to Cyprus’ airspace to the plane carrying Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

Football clubs that owe the state millions in tax have apparently received a new reprieve until the end of April to repay part of their debts, reports said on Tuesday. ...

The government on Monday revealed it is asking for an extra €70 million to complete works at the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Vasiliko, a project plagued by delays and ...

Bank depositors and bondholders whose savings were wiped out in the 2013 ‘haircut’ will receive a fraction of their losses as compensation, officials said in parliament on Monday. The House finance ...

Famagusta criminal court has acquitted all defendants of all charges relating to the alleged gang rape of a British female tourist in Ayia Napa in September 2023, it emerged on Monday. ...

Ending the hiring freeze on permanent jobs in the public sector is not in itself an adverse development but it has to be done in a considered way that doesn’...

Parliament on Thursday discussed a bill that would deprive a person of their driver’s license for up to two years if that person is found guilty of having caused ...

The House on Thursday passed a law allowing only doctors enrolled with the general health system (Gesy) to issue prescriptions for medicines covered by the system. The law – a government ...

The government on Thursday called for “a collective effort” to tackle the effects of the drought and the coming water shortages, also announcing a subsidy scheme to get hotels to ...

The sponsor of a bill aiming to end the practice of cutting off solar panels urged government agencies on Monday to come back with their written remarks by the end ...

MPs on Monday wrapped up discussion of a government bill that would end the hiring freeze on vacancies for full-time jobs in the broader public sector – a policy instituted in 2013 ...

No municipality employee will remain unpaid at the end of the month, despite the delayed submission of municipality budgets, a senior government official said on Thursday. Elikkos Elia, permanent secretary ...

Cyprus has set itself the “ambitious” target of having a third of energy consumption derive from renewable sources by the year 2030, the energy minister said on Thursday, while also announcing ...

The energy regulators of Cyprus and Greece reaffirmed on Thursday their ongoing commitment to the Great Sea Interconnector – the proposed subsea electricity cable connecting the two countries. In a statement, ...

State agencies and officials on Tuesday welcomed in principle proposed legislation that would bar shutting down solar panels, but the fly in the ointment was that affected households and businesses ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday called for legislation that would guarantee compensatory benefits to the residents of communities located near the highly polluting Dhekelia power station. MPs also said the law should ...

Municipalities on Monday called off the measures they had earlier threatened – including halting payments – over the non-approval of their budgets. In a statement, the Union of Municipalities said that just ...

Most parliamentary parties as well as trade unions on Monday welcomed the government’s intention to undo the hiring freeze on permanent jobs in the public sector, with opposition Disy ...

The government has gone back to the drawing board to tweak its bills regarding multiple pensions given to certain state officials, MPs heard on Monday. An official with the finance ...

Talk of Cyprus joining Nato or an affiliated organisation has fizzled out in recent weeks – no surprise there, as the future of Nato itself seems to hang in the balance. ...