Elias Hazou

The average time to review applications for Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) has been cut to 60 days, the deputy welfare minister said on Tuesday. In a video message, Marilena Evangelou said ...

MPs on Tuesday decided to give the attorney-general’s office a fortnight for feedback on some loose ends relating to a bill changing the way in which Turkish Cypriot properties ...

Possible American assistance in upgrading Cyprus’ main airbase in Paphos and the naval base at Mari was discussed in Washington during President Nikos Christodoulides’ official visit there last October, the ...

Cyprus could face massive fines from the EU due to its shortcomings in the area of waste management, the environment commissioner warned on Thursday. Speaking to the public broascaster, Antonia ...

The basic salaries of civil servants, government employees and state officials will rise by 1.25 per cent as of January due to the Cost of Living Allowance, the finance ministry said ...

The government said on Tuesday it is taking all necessary steps to ensure the Paphos district has adequate water supply, after a desalination plant was taken offline. Andreas Gregoriou, a ...

The Audit Office confirmed on Tuesday that it has alerted EU authorities over potentially suspicious financial dealings relating to the project for the construction of a subsea power cable linking ...

The government said Monday it has implemented changes to the functioning of a small number of traffic cameras following complaints about drivers getting unfairly saddled with fines for violations. Alexis ...

The floating, storage and regasification unit (Fsru) is currently moored at the Strait of Malacca, Malaysia, where it’s undergoing technical checks, the energy minister said on Monday. George Papanastasiou ...

To call it a milepost year in anti-free speech might be taking it too far, but definitely 2024 had its fair share of such troubling incidents. But the more precedents are ...

Cctv cameras will be installed at 25 more schools across the country in January, an official with the education ministry confirmed on Tuesday. Speaking to daily Phileleftheros, Elias Markatzis said this ...

The floating, storage and regasification unit (Fsru) may head out to Greece and moor there for about a year until the LNG terminal in Cyprus is completed, reports said on ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday completed a two-day visit to Israel and the West Bank, where he held meetings with various officials. During the visit Kombos discussed “the current ...

News-wise, the Great Sea Interconnector had had quite the week: first the leaking of two reports casting major doubts over the endeavour, followed almost instantaneously by the revelation that a ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) said Thursday that it has cancelled a second-division football match scheduled for this weekend after being alerted to suspicious betting activity. The game in question, ...

A French company has agreed to buy a significant stake in the Great Sea Interconnector project, media reports said on Thursday. Bloomberg broke the story, naming the company as Meridiam ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday sent back to parliament a law passed two weeks ago that makes illegal transactions in liquid assets of over €10,000. The president refused to sign off ...

Cyprus this week requested from the European Commission the fifth tranche of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), a statement said on Thursday. Pending approval from Brussels, the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and his Egyptian counterpart have agreed that their countries should “coordinate” on the potential fallout from recent events in Syria, the government said on Tuesday. Christodoulides and ...

The labour market in 2024 is “the best” of the last 15 years in terms of new job creation, the employment rate and salaries, the government claimed on Tuesday. Labour Minister Yiannis ...

The three-day debate on the 2025 state budget got underway on Monday, with the proceedings set to wrap up on Wednesday evening with the vote at the House plenum. The first ...

The EU must immediately appoint a special envoy to Syria, as well as use frozen assets of the former Assad government for reconstruction in the war-torn country, according to a ...

Two Hungarian nationals appeared on Thursday before a criminal court to hear charges relating to the illegal exploitation of Greek Cypriot properties in the north of the island. The two ...

Parliament on Thursday evening gave the nod to an increase in maternity benefits and other child-related allowances, with the stated aim of boosting birth rates in Cyprus. Under the amendments ...