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MEMBERS of parliament on Wednesday discussed a new bill which, if passed, would tighten regulations on their own second jobs. The bill was put forward by Dipa MP Marinos Mousiouttas, ...

The interior ministry has no objections to legislative proposals put forward by MPs that provide for an increase in their number in addition to the introduction of horizontal voting. Interior ...

Oelmek president Demetris Taliadoros upset the House education committee on Wednesday, claiming MPs were “on the take” from private schools and was why they refused to make any changes to ...

Ruling and opposition MPs alike criticised a government bill that aspired to regulate the issue of multiple pensions for officials, during a House finance committee meeting on Monday. Presenting the ...

Dipa member Marinos Mousiouttas called on Wednesday for the House legal affairs committee to limit MPs duty to three consecutive terms. Mousiouttas wants to set a maximum term limit for ...

Parliament has no authority to dish out administrative sanctions – such as fines – on MPs for failing to file their wealth declaration on time, the House said on Monday responding to ...

Not a single MP filed their statement of assets by the designated deadline for this year, forcing the parliament secretariat to grant them a one-month extension, it emerged on Thursday. ...

Lawmakers on Monday vented their frustration at the government for bringing last-minute changes to legislation relating to the reform of local government, as the new system of governance is set ...

MPs failed to make headway on Wednesday over the controversial capital statements that politically exposed persons are expected to publish. Despite months of discussions, lawmakers are still trying to agree ...

In the end, the government admitted it was a mistake for the members of the council of ministers not to attend the opening day of the debate on the state ...

Israel is conducting a just war which must be the last, in which Hamas must be eradicated, Israel’s ambassador to Cyprus Oren Anolik told the House foreign affairs committee ...

A group low-grade civil servants said on Wednesday it is imperative that their representatives be present at a discussion next week on pay rises for civil servants. The meeting, pegged ...

What a mess the authorities have made of the issue of the multiple pensions over the years. We are now at the point at which someone who had been a ...

The government on Monday asked MPs to hold off on pushing through a legislative proposal that would end the ban on new recruitments in the public sector concerning promotion positions ...

Deputies on Wednesday grilled Cyprus’ police chief on institutionalised racism within the force and whether this was a factor in the observer status police took, as mobs attacked migrants in ...

MPs on Tuesday sought to put an end to the discrimination among refugees by amending the law to allow everyone living in refugee housing to have title deeds. Chairman of ...

The travel chaos gripping airports across Europe has again hit Cyprus with flights cancelled to and from Larnaca, while a team of Cypriot MPs remain stuck in Frankfurt. WizzAir cancelled ...

Lawmakers on Thursday voiced reservations over a government bill that aims to fast-track so-called ‘strategic developments’, pointing out that the legislation itself omits to spell out which investments are deemed ...

The audit office on Friday called on political parties to ditch a proposal that would allow civil servants to be elected as MPs without resigning from their post, saying this ...

The 65-year-old building housing Limassol police headquarters needs maintenance and improvement as a matter of urgency, House legal affairs committee president Nicos Tornaritis said on Friday after he headed a ...

A total of 85 amendments to the local government reform bills were presented during the House interior committee on Thursday, which took place behind closed doors. While most of the amendments ...

Members of the House health committee on Thursday welcomed planned updates to the national cancer strategy that will include a national cancer institute and urged the state to step up ...

Opposition on Thursday called for caution over updating the 1923 law on infectious diseases to avoid restricting basic freedoms, with Akel arguing that lack of proper definitions of some words makes ...

The House Interior Committee on Thursday completed an article-by-article discussion of sweeping reforms to local government, acknowledging that though differences remain, they were gradually inching towards consensus on many aspects ...