Elias Hazou

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Monday unveiled the second supplementary state budget for 2021, a stimulus package aimed at continuing support to businesses struck by the coronavirus-related measures – although the single ...

The new House finance committee held its first session on Monday after May’s parliamentary elections, where among others it discussed setting a deadline for passing yet another extension to ...

The European Council is set to offer Turkey “readiness to engage” in “a phased, proportionate and reversible manner” while remaining fully committed to a comprehensive settlement of the Cyprus problem ...

Cyprus will remain on the UK’s ‘amber’ list of countries for the coronavirus, putting paid to the island’s hankering for an influx of British tourists for July as ...

The House plenary on Thursday rubberstamped the chairs and members of the 16 regular parliamentary committees, plus of the ad hoc committee on demographics and a newly created ethics committee for ...

Paphos criminal court on Thursday sentenced to 17 years in jail on the charge of manslaughter the main suspect in the slaying of a 20-year-old Syrian man that took place in ...

Paphos criminal court on Tuesday ruled a 25-year-old man guilty on 18 counts of sexual abuse of a minor on different charges, and set July 7 as the date for sentencing. The ...

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’ ...