Elias Hazou

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a law mandating that from now on any criminal trial be carried out by a court in whose district the offence in question ...

Last year authorities collected €700 million in taxes more than they did in 2022, the Tax Department said on Thursday, while conceding there was room for improvement. Tax Commissioner Sotiris Markidis told ...

Opposition MPs on Tuesday piled on Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou for the government’s refusal to compensate farmers who had used waste material other than compost as fertiliser. Legislators said ...

Almost 30,000 companies have yet to make updated disclosures about their Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs) and could face hefty fines for non-compliance, MPs said on Tuesday. The House commerce committee again ...

Conditions at the police holding centre in Limassol are miserable – congestion, inadequate ventilation, rundown toilet facilities – report released on Tuesday by the ombudswoman’s office said. Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides drew ...

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a prior judgement by the administrative court which had validated a decision by the competition watchdog to fine the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA) to ...

A British Royal Navy vessel was on Monday reportedly en route to the Eastern Mediterranean, tasked with supporting the maritime humanitarian corridor being set up to carry critical aid from ...

Officials are bracing for the logistical nightmare of the upcoming local and European elections, featuring a smorgasbord of as many as 20,000 candidates vying for the 3,500 public offices up for grabs. ...

The government on Thursday submitted a bill aiming to set a ceiling on the price of potable water at points of sale where inadequate price competition exists. The proposed legislation ...

A whopping €2.5 billion in taxes is owed to the state, of which €1.1 billion are deemed doubtful as to whether it can be collected, a report released Thursday found. The findings ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Elias Hazou Lawmakers heard on Thursday that a warehouse where medicines were being stored and which was recently flooded, was unfit for purpose – a fact known ...

The government has asked Greece’s Independent Power Transmission Operator (Admie) to carry out a cost-benefit analysis that would then allow Cyprus to decide definitively on whether to invest directly ...

House President Annita Demetriou and the finance minister got into a verbal spat on Tuesday after the former complained again that the latter is not following proper procedures in submitting ...

The anti-money laundering unit (Mokas) is sifting through suspicious transfers of shares in companies registered in Cyprus and linked to the Predator spyware affair, local media reported on Monday. According ...

The House plenum on Thursday passed the budgets of four more public-law entities, including the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) and the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC). The two other public ...

Out-of-court fines for traffic violations will largely remain the same but offenders will have more time to pay them, according to tweaks to the legislation discussed in parliament on Thursday. ...

Regional conflict and economic woes in Europe will likely make this year a tough one for tourism, the relevant minister said on Tuesday. Deputy minister for tourism Costas Koumis made ...

The payment of a ‘personal secretary’ allowance to former presidents and House presidents is problematic, the Audit Office said on Tuesday, even warning that it might report the matter to ...

But caution expressed about Amalthea sea corridor stopping aid arriving in Gaza by land or taking attention from larger problems Despite the hype over the humanitarian aid corridor to Gaza, ...

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Cyprus is back on track and should be finished by the end of the year, China’s ambassador to Cyprus said on Thursday. “...

Lawmakers on Tuesday sounded the alarm that Cyprus may lose part – or worse – all of an EU grant allotted to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Vasiliko. In parliament, ...

The justice ministry needs to develop a reliable internal audit system for receipts and payments, the Audit Office said in a report released Tuesday. The dossier covered the justice ministry’...

MPs heard on Tuesday that out of some 230,000 registered companies, so far only 140,000 have updated their records regarding their ultimate beneficial owners (UBOs), the rest facing hefty fines if they ...

Lawmakers on Tuesday complained that the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) is being mismanaged and operates with subpar transparency, as the organisation sought parliament’s nod for its 2024 budget. The 2024 ...