Elias Hazou

Like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound, would be an apt analogy for the relief measures announced at the end of September to tackle the rising cost of living. ...

Hundreds of teachers from public schools demonstrated at the presidential palace on Thursday afternoon, voicing opposition to a proposed change in the appointments system that they fear will leave many ...

Labour Minister Marinos Mousiouttas on Thursday struck a buoyant note over ongoing talks on pension reform, but trade unions reiterated that their key concerns have not been allayed. The minister ...

Major disagreements emerged in parliament on Thursday during the opening discussion of a proposed overhaul and consolidation of the civil protection and crisis management systems. Under the proposed legislation, a ...

The trial of suspended Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos, accused of rape, continued on Tuesday with the testimony of a key prosecution witness. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the witness ...

The Ktizo scheme, affording refugees the option to move into better and safer housing, is proceeding at a snail’s pace, MPs said on Tuesday. In April 2023, amid much fanfare ...

Retail fuel prices in Cyprus are currently at “acceptable levels”, taking into account the global uptick and compared to other EU countries, government officials told incredulous MPs on Tuesday. Director ...

A decision on whether Maccabi Tel Aviv will play their EuroLeague home games in Cyprus could be taken this week, amid an ongoing security review, reports said on Monday. Daily ...

The electronic platform for depositors and bondholders burned in the 2013 bank bail-in will be reactivated over the next few days for people who previously applied but received no reimbursement, while ...

Over the next years Cyprus anticipates to have available to it some €3.5 billion in EU funds for development projects, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Monday. “These are projects which will ...

The Democratic Rally (Disy) on Friday fixed the timetable under which it will nominate the person standing for the party in the 2028 presidential election. The party’s political bureau decided ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) this week ruled in favour of a Moroccan national, an asylum seeker who sued Cyprus for his prolonged detention on national security grounds. ...

The head of an NGO revealed on Friday that she has been questioned by police over a social media post she had made on the eve of the May parliamentary ...

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. ...