Elias Hazou

By Elias Hazou American investigators on Thursday visited ‘ground zero’, the site where the devastating fires of July broke out. The team of experts from the US Bureau of Alcohol, ...

State prosecutors on Thursday explained why a day earlier they decided to drop five of the eight charges they had filed against former volunteerism commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki, arguing that it ...

Commercial properties and holiday homes linked to Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) were built despite lacking the proper permits, the audit office said in a report published on Tuesday. One case ...

The forestry department on Tuesday sought to downplay revelations of official documents showing that it took the finance ministry six months to respond to an urgent plea for hiring forest ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has asked the American government for help to investigate and evaluate the management of the recent fires, he said on Monday evening. At the same time, he ...

The government on Monday sought to tamper down talk of a pending cabinet reshuffle, saying only that President Nikos Christodoulides has taken no such decision for the moment. Speaking to ...

The cabinet has rescinded the Cypriot passports of two Chinese nationals after their conviction in Singapore in a major money laundering case, media reported on Monday. Daily Politis said the ...

The Civil Defence on Monday refuted claims made on social media that its director was lounging on a beach during the recent wildfires that swept through Limassol district. Posts on ...

Why do so many tenders for large public projects crash and burn? Sometimes the bidding competition gets bogged down in endless legal wrangling, eventually scrapped, and authorities have to go ...

Compensation payouts to the victims of last week’s wildfires have already begun, the government said on Thursday. In a post on X, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said that already €122,000 ...

The energy regulator on Thursday gave a provisional green light to the payment by Cyprus of €25 million to the project promoter for the Great Sea Interconnector, the planned subsea electricity ...

Authorities are prepping for a potential contamination of the water in Kouris dam by ash and cinders once the rainy season begins, media reports said on Thursday. Located in Limassol ...

The next couple of months will see crucial developments regarding the future commercialisation of the Kronos offshore gas field, the energy minister said on Thursday. George Papanastasiou said important talks ...

Thousands, of people held a demonstration in Limassol on Thursday evening, demanding accountability and protesting the government’s perceived inaction during last week’s deadly fires that swept through mountainous ...

Despite a law having just come into force, allowing state officials to waive receiving a pension while still in active service, it turns out this has no practical application, media ...

The fire chief had warned a year ago of the dangers of wildfires and how the system is ill-equipped to deal with them, according to a confidential transcript from a ...

A Public Warning System, alerting members of the public to emergencies like fires, should be deployed within the first half of next year, the government said on Tuesday. The interior ...

Amid calls for the resignations of the justice and agriculture ministers, the government on Monday continued dodging questions as to whether any senior officials would or should quit over last ...

An early warning system alerting people to the risk of fire near them was not activated during the devastating conflagration this week as Cyprus has no such system in place. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday thanked everyone who helped fight the raging wildfires in the Limassol district, stressing that preserving human life was the utmost priority throughout, while pledging financial ...

In the searing summer heat firefighters throughout Thursday continued to battle the blaze that incinerated an estimated 120 square kilometres in the Limassol district, with two people confirmed dead and at ...

Approximately 120 square kilometres of land has been burned in the Limassol district, according to a preliminary assessment given on Thursday. In a statement, the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence (University of ...

The new wildfire breaking out in the Paphos district on Thursday appeared to be in remission by early afternoon, but local authorities advised residents to remain on alert. The blaze ...

Questions raised over helicopters leased by the government and the role of forestry department officials in their selection Three forestry department (FD) functionaries – suspended amid a police probe into dodgy ...