#construction

The Supreme Court on Wednesday increased the penalty bestowed upon the owners of a construction company for failing to take measures to guarantee the workers’ safety from €150 to €1,500, after an ...

A 28-year-old man is alleged to have attacked two men carrying out works at an apartment complex in Paphos, with one of the victims falling from the scaffolding. Paphos police ...

A section of the Limassol-Paphos motorway will be closed on Tuesday morning due to a protest by quarry workers to demand new quarrying permits. Employees in the concrete production sector ...

Nicosia municipality was wrong to reject a town planning permit for a 10-storey building, and the matter is now in the hands of the government, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said ...

A construction company was fined €8,000 on Wednesday by the Nicosia district court after it found that a worker was seriously injured due to poor health and safety standards. The labour ...

A 42-year-old man was jailed for seven months on Wednesday for stealing construction materials from an erected building in Paphos earlier this year. Paphos district court imposed the seven-month prison ...

39 per cent of all work deaths are in the building trade A study into workplace accidents during the period of 1999 to 2020 has found that 96 per cent of all such fatalities ...

Two Limassol companies on Monday were each fined €19,000 and two people were handed commuted prison sentences for causing the death of two workers. According to an announcement from the labour ...

Four legal entities and four individual employers have been fined by the in Larnaca for violations of work safety regulations that resulted in injury to workers, it was announced on ...

Abandoned and unfinished buildings in Acheritou attract rodents and snakes, community leader Michalis Kaounas said on Wednesday, calling on the relevant authorities to intervene and clean up the complexes. Over ...

The Workplace Inspection Department on Tuesday reported on court rulings so far this year against companies and employers found guilty of lax workplace safety and health practices, where in some ...

The finance ministry has instructed government ministries and departments to tighten the purse strings, advising that they freeze development projects not already underway in a bid to shore up expenses ...

Up to 350,000 people could be transferred to live in and around the area of the town of Famagusta, a Turkish Cypriot public functionary has stated. Turkish Cypriot daily Yeniduzen quoted ...

A 60-year-old man is wanted on suspicion of stealing one thousand iron rings from a construction site in Paphos, police said on Friday. The theft was reported on Thursday by ...

Building permits increased by 30.3 per cent in the first five months of the year, compared with the same period of 2020, the Statistical Service announced on Friday. “During the period January – ...

A project in Cyprus aims to reduce and reuse the waste produced by the construction industry – and in the process, help to create safer and better insulated buildings. The method ...