Elias Hazou

Barbers and hairdressers have complained about unfair competition from shops that do not keep normal hours and even operate on Sundays and public holidays, media reported on Tuesday. The complaints ...

The media ethics committee in the north on Tuesday called on a Turkish news agency to correct a mistranslation of Archbishop Georgios’ Easter message. According to the ethics committee, the ...

The main civil servants’ union on Tuesday slammed a recently published report of the International Monetary Fund, vowing to fight any attempt to “encroach” on workers’ rights. In an interview ...

A prison warden, a prison inmate and the inmate’s wife will stand trial for corruption, bribery and racketeering, following a decision handed down by Nicosia district court on Thursday. ...

Up until January of this year, no certification was required that a vehicle must not be subject to recall in order to have it registered, the panel investigating the Takata ...

The inflation rate for a designated basket of basic consumer goods fell to 1.6 per cent in March, continuing the declining trend registered since December, according to government data released on ...

Athens is getting cold feet in relation to a planned subsea electricity cable linking Greece to Cyprus, Turkish media reported on Tuesday. Turkish daily Milliyet, which led with a story ...

Fresh discussions on the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) will get underway after the Easter holiday, media reported on Monday, on the back of the release of an International Monetary ...

Drilling at the Elektra-1 well offshore Cyprus has found natural gas but not in marketable quantities, the energy ministry stated on Monday. “Well data and preliminary evaluation work indicate the ...

Cyprus should likely brace for impact from a potential global trade war kicked off by the United States. So says the smart money, although analysts add that the nature and ...

Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos on Thursday categorically denied that the municipality has imposed unofficial quotas on municipal traffic officers gauging their job performance based on the number of fines they ...

Parliament on Thursday passed a law ‘prohibiting’ the disconnection of solar panels, although some MPs cautioned that the benefit of this would be limited. The legislative proposal belonged to Disy ...

Around 20 taxi drivers gathered outside parliament on Thursday afternoon to protest against the conduct of the House transport committee when discussing issues of concern to urban taxis. The cab drivers ...

The creation, possession and distribution of AI-generated child pornography is now a criminal offence, carrying with it prison sentences of up to 15 years, under a law passed by parliament on ...

The House on Thursday enacted legislation creating the office of the patients advocate – a comprehensive mechanism to receive, process and make determinations on complaints filed by patients. Two relevant government ...

Workers at the Meteorology Department on Tuesday reiterated their strong objections to plans to relocate the department’s premises from Larnaca airport to Athalassa in Nicosia, going so far as ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld a prior ruling by a lower court which had voided a €25,000 administrative fine slapped on a brokerage firm executive by the Securities and ...

Only a small fraction of hotels and tourist accommodation establishments are fully licensed, MPs heard on Tuesday, while unlicensed businesses continue to operate with impunity, confident that the state will ...

Data published on Monday captured the scale of traffic congestion on the main roads of the island, with the Limassol bypass shown to be the busiest. Citing numbers obtained from ...

A senior functionary at the Audit Office has earned €260,000 since late 2019 when he was put on paid suspension after reveals that he and others had fraudulently established a company, media ...

The House plenum on Thursday evening approved the 2025 budget for the Natural Gas Public Company (Defa) amid a lively debate over the delays in the advent of natural gas for ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to end the ‘hiring freeze’ on vacated permanent positions in the public sector, reversing a policy instituted twelve years ago. The repeal act ...

Women can now enlist voluntarily in the National Guard, for a minimum of six months, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. The law passed with 32 MPs voting in ...

The former Civil Registry and Migration Department was slow in processing applications for Cypriot citizenship and for permanent residence, as a result of which some 12,000 applications were pending at the ...