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...
Larnaca-based energy companies pushed on date for Vassilikos move
Companies in Larnaca have one week to come up with a schedule for moving their gas and oil storage facilities to the energy hub...
MPs seek more details on local government reform
MPs want the interior ministry to submit a more detailed road map on the reform of local administration, which under the government’s proposal envisages a...
Teen hunters’ learner license provision withdrawn
INTERIOR Minister Socratis Hasikos has withdrawn the provision from a law amendment on the protection and management of wild birds and game that stipulates granting...
New proposal for old GSP stadium
A new proposal is in the works to restore Nicosia’s old GSP stadium, after years of waiting, Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos said on Thursday. It...
Local authority reform on hold
LOCAL authority reform will have to wait until parliament reconvenes after May’s elections because MPs do not have time to discuss and vote on revised...
Green light to cancel Koshi contract
The Larnaca-Famagusta waste management board, comprising the mayors and community leaders of the two districts, has been given the green light to cancel the waste...
Local authority reforms to be voted on before elections
Parliament will have voted for the reform of local government before it disbands in April, ahead of May’s legislative election, Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos said...
AG asked to investigate possible wrongdoing over squalid housing
Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos has asked the attorney-general to investigate the possibility of criminal offences in connection with the acquisition of problematic apartment buildings by...
Red-faced over blue and silver cars
By Evie Andreou AUDITOR-general Odysseas Michaelides defended on Friday enquiries by his service as to why the 20 cars for state officials delivered last month...
Hasikos: I don’t want a new car and I’ll pay my own petrol
By George Psyllides Following a dispute over the specs and use of state cars, Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos said on Thursday he did not want...