Elias Hazou

The health ministry on Thursday sought to clarify the situation regarding foodstuffs found to contain ethylene oxide, saying that trace amounts pose no direct danger to human health – while announcing ...

A pro-debtors group on Tuesday blamed the government for the low uptake for the Estia debt relief scheme, saying the red tape involved disqualified many borrowers who now risk having ...

The Insurance Companies Control Service, the government agency that supervises insurance firms, accepts criticism that some of its internal procedures are sub-optimal but insists that overall its monitoring of the ...

This past week saw another episode in the long-running saga The ongoing tussle between the government camp and the opposition over freezing bank foreclosures has turned into a kabuki theatre ...

Nicosia district court on Tuesday denied a motion that it temporarily suspend restrictive measures – including the SafePass – until such time as it rules definitively on the substance in a class-action ...

In a special plenary session on Tuesday, the House voted to reject President Nicos Anastasiades’ refusal to sign off on a bill that would renew a freeze on property foreclosures, ...

The House plenum will convene in an extraordinary session on Tuesday to revisit a bill that further renews a moratorium on foreclosures and which President Nicos Anastasiades has refused to ...

The Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) on Monday gave the nod to Cyprus’ national recovery and resilience plan, unlocking €1.2 billion in EU funds to the island over the next ...

Authorities have seized almost 700 boxes containing thousands of laughing gas canisters, found in a warehouse at the port of Limassol. Police on Wednesday had secured a search warrant on a ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced four more deaths attributed to Covid-19, while 89,188 – a record number of daily tests tracked 1,046 positives to the virus. The latest deaths were: a woman aged 74, ...

Direct financial assistance to those who suffered damage to their properties in the massive July 3 blaze will begin being dispensed as of next week, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said. He ...

Haggling continued through Thursday night over a UN Security Council statement over Turkey’s latest pronouncements on Varosha, with the body apparently unable to agree a final text in its ...

Cyprus has made some progress toward tweaking its justice system, but there remains work to be done on improving transparency and accessibility to public documents, mechanisms to combat corruption, and ...

Three lawyers representing some of the persons arrested over Sunday evening’s disturbances were themselves placed under arrest and detained after coming forth to represent their clients, the Cyprus Mail ...

Speaking in the north of Cyprus, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday reiterated Ankara’s position for a two-states solution for the island. “On this island there are two separate ...

Whatever he announces will change the face of future talks, analysts predict By Elias Hazou Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s upcoming visit to the north of Cyprus next week has ...

Ankara has just approved a $500 million line of credit to the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’, according to a decree published in Turkey’s official gazette. Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah ...

The government’s draft legislation to replace the current Infectious Diseases Law, on which the health minister’s decrees have been based for the various measures taken relating to the ...

The government on Tuesday submitted to parliament three bills aiming to open up the electricity market in Cyprus in line with EU regulations. Together, the three bills set out the ...

The House human rights committee on Monday discussed the issue of victims of crime and how the state can better come to their aid given that – while Cyprus does have ...

The latest expanded control measures taken relating to the coronavirus situation are both “legitimate and proportional”, the data protection commissioner said in a statement on Monday. In a statement, Data ...

The finance ministry has ordered an administrative probe into an apparent foul-up that saw €14.3 million in coronavirus-related relief provided by the government end up with ineligible companies. The matter came ...

Despite warnings from the government and the banking industry not to, lawmakers on Thursday passed a law further extending a freeze on home foreclosures. This will draw out the current ...

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) is investigating a possible case of fraud involving EU grants received by companies linked to the former commissioner for the development of mountain communities, it ...