Elias Hazou

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 ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) on Tuesday presented its ten-year development programme for the 2021-2030 period, envisaging some €1.6 billion in infrastructure expenditures. Speaking in parliament, EAC Transmission Manager Costas ...

The deputy ministry for social welfare aims to cut back on red tape, utilising automation and interoperability with other state services to reach people in need, rather than just check ...

Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides on Monday waved aside conjecture that has him aspiring for the presidency in 2023, and said this talk comes from quarters who wish to distract from the watchdog’...

Lawmakers on Monday began reviewing three government bills which would give credit acquiring companies (CACs) enhanced access to debtors’ financial data, affording the financial industry more tools to deal with ...

The health ministry on Thursday said it did not have data specifically on deaths considered to be ‘sudden’ – following several media reports of such incidents in recent months. In a ...

After years of start-stop discussions in committee, the House on Thursday passed the legal framework for opening up the electricity market – with the energy minister hailing it as the single ...

The government has finished examining all pending applications filed under the – now defunct – citizenship-by-investment programme, and has duly briefed the European Union, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Tuesday. The ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) will take a revenue hit of around €24 million following a decision to offer a 10 per discount on utility bills over the next four months, ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Tuesday waved off demands made a day earlier for a Syrian asylum seeker to be reunited with her family, saying it might open the floodgates ...

Business leaders as well as trade unions say the labour market is still struggling to settle after the turbulence caused by the coronavirus-related closures and other measures, pointing to a ...

Lawmakers on Monday sought an update on what efforts, if any, are underway to reunite a Syrian family who arrived here as irregular migrants, but were thwarted after the interior ...