Elias Hazou

Minister of Labour Zeta Emilianidou has issued a decree simplifying the paperwork and procedures required for employers to hire asylum seekers on a temporary basis. The decree in question appeared ...

A union representing the rights of public-sector workers has called for the suspension of rapid tests for the coronavirus, after media reports showed a swab contained multiple times the permissible ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has turned up the heat on the Health Insurance Organisation, reporting the entity to the attorney-general for its alleged failure to provide information he requested. In a ...

The coronavirus situation has acted as an accelerator for digitisation, Deputy Minister for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Kyriacos Kokkinos said Monday as MPs reviewed the junior ministry’s proposed ...

Parliament on Thursday passed legislation tweaking the Waste Law in such a way as to enable the activation on a nationwide basis of the ‘Pay-as-you-throw’ system designed to promote recycling. ...

Nicosia district court on Thursday issued an injunction barring socialist party Edek from holding an electoral congress planned for this coming Sunday, or elections scheduled for the weekend after, on ...

The House on Thursday gave the nod to government legislation regulating the use of traffic cameras on roads and the issuing of fines – with the surveillance system expected to launch ...

The government on Thursday sought to downplay the fact that President Nicos Anastasiades was explicitly named in a resolution adopted by the European Parliament, where MEPs call for thorough investigations ...

Cyprus and Russia on Thursday signed two agreements enhancing their cooperation in various fields, while Moscow called ‘unacceptable’ Turkey’s unilateral moves in Varosha as well any attempt to change ...

A new, tweaked tenders procedure inviting carriers to submit bids for a Cyprus-Greece ferry link – discontinued some 20 years ago – should be rolled out by next month, deputy minister for shipping ...

Cyprus, Greece and Egypt signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to connect their respective electricity grids in Athens on Tuesday, with the Greek premier calling the emerging alliance among ...

The state is owed tens of millions in unexecuted fine warrants, a result of poor record-keeping and below-par IT systems, the Audit Office has found. In a special report published ...

The government said on Monday it will look into the possibility of price caps on essential goods, in a bid to deal with inflationary trends. Speaking in parliament during the ...

High fuel costs, shipping costs and animal feed have combined to see food prices spiral Essential foodstuffs like bread, milk and meat may see a price surge of up to 20 ...

Cyprus remains in the ‘orange zone’ with regard to the rate of spread of the coronavirus, according to the latest update from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (...

Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov will hold talks in Moscow next week, the Russian foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday. The two diplomats will exchange views ...

The House plenum on Thursday gave the nod to an extra €92 million in government spending until the end of the year, over and above the approved budget for fiscal 2021, the ...

The Law Office of the Republic is “assessing” the material made public through the Pandora Papers, and if it spots content meriting a criminal probe it will instruct the police ...

A Nicosia-based law firm is apparently one of the offshore service providers from where the Pandora Papers’ records derive, it has emerged. Under the heading ‘Who are the firms at ...

Nicosia hopes the EU can soon agree a new common migration and asylum pact, relieving the island of some of the pressure from migrant flows, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has voiced displeasure over the UN Secretary-General’s handling of the aftermath of a three-way meeting with the Turkish Cypriot leader in New York last week and ...

Still a way to go before cheaper electricity despite passing of ‘landmark’ energy liberalisation bills By Elias Hazou Despite the pageantry surrounding the so-called ‘opening up’ of the electricity market ...

An autopsy was carried out on Thursday on the body of a six-year-old boy who had died a day earlier after undergoing heart surgery at a private clinic in Nicosia. ...

The US Department of State has renewed for one more year the partial waiver on the arms embargo on Cyprus. In a notice published Thursday in the Federal Register, the ...