Elias Hazou

Years after they have applied for citizenship people who have met the criteria are still waiting. Is there any excuse for this? A former minister thinks not Accounts from people ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday attributed the tanking of the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme to a few bad actors, saying that whereas the programme did suffer from flaws, the corruption revelations ...

Lawmakers on Thursday passed a resolution authorising the House President to make public a much-awaited list of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) with bad loans. The resolution passed with a majority, ...

The audit office has flagged the leasing of an extensive expanse of state land to an entrepreneur for the purpose of building photovoltaic (PV) parks, noting that the entire process ...

Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Tuesday he met briefly and only once with Jho Low, a Malaysian national granted Cypriot citizenship in 2015, but that he was unaware at the time that ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris warned on Tuesday that allowing referendums on the mergers of municipalities and local communities would tank the drive to reform local government. “It will be chaos,” ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has got the ball rolling for the liquidation of legacy Laiki Bank, more than seven years after the lender’s demise, it emerged on ...

Lawmakers on Monday wrapped up discussion of three government bills designed to overhaul local government, but not without first inserting an amendment which – from the government’s standpoint – could unravel ...

With 29 votes for and 26 against, the House on Thursday passed the revised state budget for 2021, unlocking hundreds in millions earmarked for coronavirus relief to businesses and households. The ballot went ...

Major flaws in the citizenship-by- investment (CBI) programme’s procedures were noticed in 2017 by then interior minister Constantinos Petrides who started drafting a code of ethics that would strengthen them, ...

The committee of inquiry into the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programme will on Tuesday be holding its first public hearing, featuring former Finance Minister Harris Georgiades, to be followed by Archbishop Chrysostomos ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Monday warned that Cyprus could risk losing out on hundreds of millions in EU grants unless it reforms local government along certain parameters. Nouris informed ...

The past week saw state health services organisation (Okypy) trading barbs with unions representing government doctors and nurses, the latter accusing the former of haphazardly managing the endeavour against Covid-19. ...

Health officials have assured MPs that efforts are being made to secure greater vaccine doses for the coronavirus, which until now have been limited to a trickle. Olga Kalakouta, acting ...

The committee of inquiry looking into the citizenship-by-investment (CBI) scheme will finally open to the media as of next week, it was announced on Thursday. In a statement, the committee ...

The House on Thursday rejected the referral back to it of a law it had passed in December regulating the profession of photographers. President Nicos Anastasiades had refused to sign ...

An additional 420 appointments for coronavirus vaccinations for next week will be opened up on Friday January 15, the health ministry has announced. This concerns the vaccination centre in Lakatamia, located on ...

The government on Tuesday submitted to parliament the amended state budget for 2021, along with a plea to lawmakers to pass the bill so as not to jeopardise the coronavirus-related relief ...

A clarification on Tuesday to the decree on the number of people allowed to work on the premises of businesses permitted to remain open during the latest Covid restrictions, fell ...

A court in Cyprus has ruled that a private agreement between MEP Demetris Papadakis and his former party Edek was null and void, as it contravened European Parliament regulations. In ...

Relations between the government and auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides are deteriorating, President Nicos Anastasiades has said, accusing the official of allowing himself to be ‘weaponised’ by the opposition. In the second ...

A three-week ‘lockdown lite’ seems the likeliest scenario today when the government announces extra curbs on movement – including a return to the SMS system –aiming to contain the spread of ...

Total new loans issued by banks in November came to €263.3 million, compared to €281.4 million in the previous month, according to data released on Tuesday by the Central Bank of Cyprus (...

Inch by inch in this year of the virus, safeguards for civil liberties have been stripped away By Elias Hazou Two years ago, this author wrapped up the annual recap ...