Elias Hazou

A report into the now-defunct citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programme, released on Tuesday, conveys a picture of an almost total system failure – authorities and actors across the board not doing proper background ...

Cyprus hopes to tap some €1.2 billion from the EU’s Resilience and Recovery Facility, in exchange for which it pledges to implement a series of reforms. But it’s a ...

The Audit Office has flagged a series of dodgy financial practices at the foreign ministry, among others homing in on one particular employee who showed up for work for about ...

Nicosia on Tuesday said that for the moment it does not appear Turkey has shifted course on the Cyprus issue, making a second informal meeting focused on the island unlikely, ...

In a further twist to the ‘golden passports’ affair, the Audit Office now plans to report the committee of inquiry – which just delivered its final report – to the European Commission. ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides hauled the head of the state veterinary services over the coals anew on Thursday, calling him a ‘bad-faith actor’ whose actions have led the government to overpay ...

Health authorities on Thursday announced four new deaths from Covid-19, while island-wide testing tracked 59 new positives. In an email circulated to the media, the health ministry clarified the four deaths ...

Disy MP Annita Demetriou was voted House president on Thursday, the first woman ever to hold the post in Cyprus. Demetriou garnered 25 votes in the second round. She was voted ...

The race for the House presidency has blended with talk of an impending cabinet reshuffle, with reports that President Nicos Anastasiades is considering outgoing House President Adamos Adamou for the ...

The supreme court has declared null and void the appointment of tax commissioner Yiannis Tsangaris – a development that could impact any acts taken by the official during his time in ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has asked that former police chief Kypros Michaelides recuse himself from a panel currently investigating the activities of a slaughterhouse business and whether it received favourable treatment ...

From 2004 to 2021 one company held a monopoly over the processing of animal waste and by-products, with the government paying a marked-up price for these services despite repeated calls on it ...

Doubts over the EU’s insistence that the Digital Covid Certificate will protect everyone’s rights over their data Activists in Cyprus are joining an EU-wide effort lobbying MEPs to ...

Ruling Disy will on Friday announce who they will formally nominate for new House president, in what should get the ducks in a row as to who is most likely ...

Socialist Edek cadres have called on their leader Marinos Sizopoulos to clear the air regarding persistent reports that a company he was tied to had a loan written off, as ...

Nationalist party Elam got the ball rolling on Tuesday for the wheeling-and-dealing over the election of the new House President, as a number of names were being floated for the ...

The changing political landscape, plus the hammering taken by mainstream parties, stand out as the two big takeaways from Sunday’s elections, according to analysts. Back in 2016, the four ‘big’ ...

Sunday’s elections were a mixed bag, with many established politicians retaining their parliamentary seat, a few ‘veterans’ making a comeback, new faces including the youngest ever person to become ...

Turkish Cypriot Ersin Tatar has sent a letter to the UN Secretary General laying out his side’s approach to the Cyprus issue and how he sees the process going ...

Sparks continued flying on Thursday over the resignation of Volunteerism Commissioner Yiannis Yiannaki, the affair bleeding into the last stretch of the election campaign showmanship, as more details came to ...

The brother of former Transport Minister Marios Demetriades on Tuesday flatly denied the latter had anything to do with applications filed by their family’s law firm on behalf of ...

Ruling Disy on Tuesday sought to do some damage control, warning disgruntled voters that a ballot cast on May 30 for the smaller parties would effectively amount to sponsoring Akel and ...

President Nikos Anastasiades is taking a great deal of flak over his perceived undue meddling in electioneering as the clock runs down on the May 30 parliamentary ballot – but it could ...

More than €1 billion will be allocated in Cyprus over the next five years for a speedy transition to a ‘green economy’, three government ministers said on Monday. In opening remarks ...