Elias Hazou

Former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Tuesday filed a formal complaint to the anti-corruption authority regarding President Nikos Christodoulides’ use of a leisure/events hall in Nicosia during the 2023 election campaign. ...

The government on Tuesday hit back at opposition party Akel after the latter pilloried President Nikos Christodoulides for his upcoming trip to Israel. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis effectively criticised Akel ...

“A fraud and a blowhard” is how a former US ambassador to Cyprus described former president Nicos Anastasiades in a feisty social media post this week. In the post on ...

Cyprus expects the project promoter of the Great Sea Interconnector in Greece to implement the project, the energy minister said on Tuesday. In statements to the Cyprus News Agency, George ...

In the ‘golden passports’ trial on Monday, lawyers jostled over the admissibility of emails pertaining to a Russian national’s application for Cypriot nationality under the now-defunct investment-for-citizenship programme, with ...

Media reported on Monday that the deputy attorney-general has instructed police to alter the procedure of petitioning courts to approve arrest or search warrants in criminal cases, after at least ...

By the end of the year the government will unveil a ‘plan’ for reforming the cost of the public sector, the Cyprus Mail has learned. Whether the changes will be ...

In a move that took party cadres by surprise, Edek leader Marinos Sizopoulos announced on Thursday that he was stepping down. Sizopoulos delivered the news to party cadres during a ...

Opposition party Akel on Thursday demanded answers from the government on how it is handling the spate of incidents of violence and public nuisance taking place over the Easter weekend. ...

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 ...