Elias Hazou

The government is “seriously considering” levying a windfall gains tax on banks to offset the earnings they’re making due to the rise in interest rates, reports said on Tuesday. ...

Representatives of occupied communities on Tuesday got a pledge from President Nikos Christodoulides that he will redouble efforts to jumpstart stalled Cyprus peace talks. A committee representing the occupied communities ...

An Australian MP of Greek Cypriot heritage has reportedly been suspended from a sub-faction of the Victorian Labour Party after sparking factional in-fighting over a speech backing Cyprus. According to ...

With clarity expected in September, rumours about the viability of the EuroAsia Interconnector were somewhat inaccurate The EuroAsia Interconnector, what would be the world’s longest subsea energy cable, remains ...

One public school teacher was sacked last year after repeatedly not showing up for work, while three other educators received reprimands or fines. The sanctions against educators are listed in ...

Police in Nicosia on Thursday arrested a 29-year-old man after catching him red-handed in possession of almost 5kg of cannabis. According to a statement, officers of the Drug Squad flagged ...

The Chinese-led consortium with the contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Vasilikos have just filed a new timetable, promising to deliver the project by July 2024, the ...

Cyprus and Lebanon stand by each other in fighting forest fires, officials of the two countries said during a ceremony held on Thursday. Cypriot authorities organised the ceremony at the ...

Drivers got hit with substantial price hikes at the petrol pump on Tuesday, with officials saying the public should probably brace for even more bad news. Spokesman for the association ...

Relentless heatwave saw a tough start to the summer This summer has been especially tough for fires, with 70 blazes breaking out in July alone – double the long-term average for the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides was on Monday urged by one of his government allies to get the state-run power utility to refund people in the next batch of electricity bills to ...

The Health Insurance Organisation – the agency running the national health system or Gesy – will as of this autumn alter the way in which personal doctors are remunerated, with 20 per cent ...

In late July the government unveiled a plan for ‘a solar panel on every rooftop’, with the primary goal of driving down high electricity costs for households. It came on ...

As of the beginning of August, about 100 people have filed applications under the Ktizo’ scheme, a government official said Thursday. ‘Ktizo’ – meaning ‘build’ in Greek – is a scheme providing grants ...

Private hospitals asserted on Thursday that they cannot – and will not – renew their contract with the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) on what they say is a take-it-or-leave-it basis, warning that ...

Officials and farmers said on Tuesday they do not anticipate either a spike in grain prices or immediate shortages after the lapse of the Black Sea grain deal last month. ...

Officials have given assurances that by September Cyprus will do a test run of an ultimate beneficial owners (UBO) register for companies, and that by the end of the year ...

The Department of Town Planning and Housing on Monday issued the second call for proposals for a funding scheme aimed to enhance business activity within the walled city of Nicosia. ...

Spending by tourists between January and May has surpassed the figures for 2019, according to data released by the Statistical Service on Monday and showing that 2023 is set to be a ...

Customs officials found and seized thousands of cigarettes as well as other tobacco products smuggled from the north, a press release said on Thursday. On July 24 customs officers carried out ...

Nicosia municipality said on Thursday it has identified seven buildings deemed unsafe for habitation, urging the owners to take immediate remedial steps. The buildings in question are inside what are ...

Authorities have awarded 61 permits for gold prospecting on the island, while another 15 applications are pending, a report published by Politis on Tuesday said. Prospecting activities cover a combined area of ...

By October government servers damaged by a water leak in April will be relocated to premises operated by the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA), the deputy minister of research said on ...

Amid the relentless heatwave and with air-conditioning units working at full blast, demand for electricity on Monday reached 1243 megawatts, a record in recent years. Hara Kousiappa, deputy spokesperson for the ...