Elias Hazou

A number of projects aimed at easing traffic congestion in Limassol will be set in motion, the government pledged on Monday. Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades held a brainstorming meeting with ...

The 56 MPs who gained a seat in the new parliament were officially named on Monday, following an election that brought six parties into the legislature. The ceremony took place at ...

Water flow into the dams this month has made it the best May on record, the Water Development Department said on Thursday. Up until May 19, some 9.6 million cubic metres flowed ...

Rescue workers were on Thursday afternoon sifting through the debris of an abandoned residence in Larnaca after the building’s roof collapsed. No casualties were reported. The residence in question ...

Prison wardens affiliated to the Isotita trade union have filed a formal complaint to the anti-corruption authority, alleging that its members are being systematically intimidated in a bid to stop ...

Decisions taken by cabinet on Tuesday set in motion the process for taking the first Cypriot natural gas to market, Energy Minister Michael Damianos said on Tuesday. “With steady steps ...

The leader of the Alma party Odysseas Michaelides and an MP candidate for Disy got into a fiery tussle over the weekend, with the former accusing the latter of leeching ...

A single Joker ticket landed its holder the jackpot, paying out a whopping €11.6 million – the second largest winnings ever recorded in Cyprus. The winning ticket was the only one to ...

Ahead of the parliamentary elections, two organised groups representing people whose savings got wiped out in the 2013 bank bail-in have asked the political parties to explicitly commit to restitution. The ...

Depending on where you stand, the record participation in the upcoming parliamentary elections either augurs chaotic fragmentation – the political landscape gone unhinged – or signals a pluralistic, maturing political culture. More ...

The 26-year-old man suspected of kidnapping his 23-month-old child from Limassol was on Thursday placed under arrest by authorities in the north. According to Turkish Cypriot media, the man is ...

Police on Thursday placed under arrest a 37-year-old driver after he ran over a 24-year-old man on the Paphos-Limassol highway. The incident happened around 9.40am. According to the police, the ...

Cyprus and Greece stand side by side amid contemporary challenges and the ongoing aggressive Turkish posture, President Nikos Christodoulides told the Greek political leadership on Thursday. “In this great effort ...

Police investigations into the cases of the Pentakomo waste treatment plant and the Trimiklini fish farm are ongoing, attorney-general George Savvides said Thursday, declining to give a timeline for when ...

As of next year, the government plans to start paying back the some €12 billion it has borrowed from the Social Insurance Fund (SIF) over the decades, the labour minister signaled ...

The squabble between Akel leader Stefanos Stefanou and former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides heated on up Tuesday, with the former calling for the disclosure of documents proving that he never interfered ...

Greens MP Charalambos Theopemptou was the most active parliamentarian over the past five years, while former Akel leader Andros Kyprianou ranked last, according to a scorecard of legislative activity published ...

Residential solar panel owners faced repeated production cutoffs over the past month, with some systems taken offline up to 17 times, according to media reports on Tuesday. Daily Phileleftheros cited data ...

MEP Fidias Panayiotou has courted more controversy, this time after his remarks about Israeli nationals buying up property in Cyprus drew condemnation from the Israeli ambassador. The story was picked ...

Opposition Akel on Monday hammered former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides for insinuating that its leader was implicated in the Vasiliko scandal. Michaelides, who made the comments on CyBC, had first floated ...

A billboard paid for by the Elam party expressing opposition to marriage and adoption by same-sex couples has been spray-painted over. The billboard in question, placed on a rooftop in ...

Livestock farmers late on Thursday called off a protest planned for Friday, after authorities said they’d take a firm hand in dealing with the demonstrators, which might have possibly ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted attorney Nikos Clerides permission to apply for the annulment of a search warrant on his premises, in connection with the ‘Sandy affair’. The petition, ...

The Electricity Authority (EAC) said on Thursday that though it can’t entirely rule out the possibility of power outages, it has taken all necessary steps to prevent such an ...