Elias Hazou

The government on Thursday conveyed its strong annoyance with opposition Disy leader Annita Demetriou over a scathing letter she sent the president concerning the Cyprus issue and the fatigue of ...

The government on Tuesday promised to tweak the criteria governing housing assistance schemes for refugees and displaced persons, with MPs hearing that 25 per cent of applications have been denied in ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) must “change” to become a competitive organisation by the time the electricity market opens up, the energy minister said on Tuesday. “Our vision is ...

Lawmakers were skeptical on Monday when the Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA) requested an extra €8.4 million to run the port in Larnaca after the contract with a private company – Kition Ocean ...

Mixed reactions followed the open letter published over the weekend by Maria Angela Holguin, the UN secretary-general’s personal Cyprus envoy – some dismissed it as generic and tone-deaf to the ...

The government on Thursday tabled to parliament a bill relating to Cyprus joining the United States’ visa waiver programme. On June 17 the governments of Cyprus and the United States signed ...

The House on Thursday postponed for a week a scheduled vote on a bill regulating the submission of capital statements, or wealth declarations by state officials, politically exposed persons and ...

Greece’s independent power transmission operator (Admie) will next week formally deliver to the Cypriot government its cost-benefit analysis for the Great Sea Interconnector – the mooted subsea electricity cable linking ...

The government has “a Plan A and a Plan B” for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Vasiliko, the president said on Tuesday. Nikos Christodoulides was responding to journalists’ ...

Parliament has no authority to dish out administrative sanctions – such as fines – on MPs for failing to file their wealth declaration on time, the House said on Monday responding to ...

Banks as well as government officials on Monday all but gave the thumbs-down to the idea of taxing the windfall profits of commercial lenders, a proposal brought by opposition party ...

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s threat to Cyprus got a lot of traction in local media, as it was no doubt something out of the ordinary. But commentators have told ...

Nineteen football clubs collectively owe the state some €33 million in taxes, and their repayment conduct does not bode well for the future, the Audit Office has said. The auditor-general’s ...

Not a single MP filed their statement of assets by the designated deadline for this year, forcing the parliament secretariat to grant them a one-month extension, it emerged on Thursday. ...

The European People’s Party has included the Cyprus problem in its list of top 10 priorities, President Nikos Christodoulides announced in Brussels on Thursday, amid a flurry of meetings linked ...

The energy minister on Tuesday sounded favourably disposed towards the state investing directly in a mooted subsea electricity cable linking Cyprus to Greece, but MPs pushed back citing the political ...

The fines for certain traffic violations, particularly for running a red light, have been substantially lowered under a bill passed by the House on Thursday. MPs said the change was ...

Three MPs on Thursday jointly tabled a bill aiming to introduce the use of a ‘panic button’ for prevention of domestic abuse and violence against women. The bill is co-sponsored ...

Within the year some 300 ‘smart’ bus stops will be installed across the country with real-time arrival alerts, in a large-scale project that is hoped will significantly enhance the quality of ...

Opposition Akel said Tuesday it demands a full accounting of what really lies behind the ‘strategic dialogue’ initiated between Cyprus and the United States and which was announced with much ...

Doctors at public hospitals decided Tuesday to call off a strike they had planned for this coming Thursday, saying they were willing to give their employer one last chance. Physicians ...

The Audit Office has uncovered another scandal at the Youth Board involving dodgy hiring practices that apparently were tailor-made to suit certain individuals, it was reported on Monday. According to ...

Lawmakers on Monday quibbled on whether Cyprus looks set to face fines from Brussels for failure to transpose into domestic law an EU directive regulating the transfer of loans from ...

While definitely striking, the evisceration of the so-called centrist parties at the ballot last week should not be seen in isolation but rather as part of a wider malaise and ...