President wants examples of auditor’s costly interference
THE president’s request for a list of incidents where the auditor-general has interfered in ministers’ work and cost the state money will undermine the Audit...
Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos
Little progress in Hasikos conflict of interest investigation
The independent committee for the investigation of state officials’ conflicts of interest, which convened on Monday to look into claims of impropriety against Interior...
Auditor-general says civil aviation was wrong to rent minister-linked premises
The government should not rent the building chosen by the Civil Aviation Department as its premises, the Audit Service said on Wednesday. Instead, the...
Hasikos appoints former AG in battle against auditor-general
Interior minister Socratis Hasikos on Wednesday insisted that he can see no impropriety in a company partly owned by him bidding to rent office...
Hasikos in possible conflict of interests over office rent
Interior minister Socratis Hasikos may have violated the law on incompatibility with public office by owning a stake in a company that rents out a...
Building permit regulations to be re-examined
Interior minister Socratis Hasikos will hold another round of consultations with parliament and the public over the government’s policy on issuing building permits outside residential...
Hasikos urged to stop threatening tenants of Turkish Cypriot properties with eviction
MPs have called on the interior ministry to stop threatening Greek Cypriot users of more than 1,300 Turkish Cypriot properties with eviction and to...
Two remanded over sham marriage
A 25-year-old Romanian woman and a 20-year-old man from Bangladesh were remanded on Saturday for six days for their alleged involvement in a sham marriage...
Our View: Parties snubbed sensible municipal bill simply to annoy government
WHEN two weeks ago Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos submitted the government bill to postpone the local authority elections scheduled for December, this column had asked...
It would have made sense to postpone local elections, says minister
Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos on Wednesday said although the proposal to postpone December’s municipal elections had not been accepted by political parties, he still believed...
