MPs give transport ministry two weeks to sort out conflicting bicycle laws
MPs on gave Friday the transport ministry two weeks to make the necessary arrangements to avoid the clash between penalties provided in local government regulations...
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Akel MP sues Disy colleague over leaked police documents claim
Main opposition Akel MP Irini Charalambidou said Tuesday she had instructed her lawyers to file a slander lawsuit against ruling Disy MP Zaharias Zahariou after...
Minister to be investigated over sexual harassment allegation
Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an investigation into a report that one of her ministers asked a female secretary to buy sex toys for...
MPs defend lack of penalties for false capital statements
Members of parliament were quick to defend on Wednesday the ample protection that legislation offers public officials required by law to publish their capital statements....
Wealth statements draw derision
The source of wealth and funds statements of 75 public officials released to the public drew public derision on Tuesday. Greens MP Giorgos Perdikis warned...
Law on capital statements impossible to implement
The law on disclosure of politically exposed persons and government officials, which requires thousands of individuals to submit capital statements by next month to a...
End-of-month deadline for MPs to disclose finances
MPs have until the end of July to conform to the new law on capital-statement submission, which calls on them to reveal not only their...
Tighten your belts, wasteful MPs told
Plethora of assistants, unjustified travel allowances, airfares, audit boss says A lot more can be done to track MPs’ expenses and to bring their benefits...
Taking away audit chief’s power to look at co-ops would be a step back, MPs hear
Approval by parliament of a proposal to take away the auditor-general’s power to scrutinise co-op banks would be a regression in terms of transparency and...
Courts system ‘in distress’ top judge says
The courts system is in distress, threatening the proper dispensation of justice, the President of the Supreme Court warned on Wednesday. The judicial system is...
Anastasiades says ‘will not tolerate’ suggestion he favoured in-laws in public tender, calls for probe by audit office
President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday night called on the auditor-general to “immediately” investigate allegations implying his in-laws had been favoured in a tender for the...
Ministry takes a step back from the more draconian provisions in smoking bill
The health ministry has come back with amendments to a bill banning smoking in public buildings and open-air spaces, rendering the legislation less draconian. The...
Some 600 identified in Panama Papers, deputies told
THE tax department told MPs on Wednesday it has identified 600 individuals from 1,050 named in various companies included in the so-called Panama Papers, while...
Tax department was ‘like a coffee shop’ of gossips, chief says
Some 30,000 appeals dating back to the 1980s were still outstanding last February, Tax Commissioner Yiannis Tsangaris said on Thursday, likening the situation to the...
Leaks affect investigations and trial outcomes, Nicolaou warns
Leaks relating to police investigations are being treated as a matter of corruption that affects the outcome of the case and possibly a trial, Justice...
Power market liberalisation may take three more years
Diko lawmaker Angelos Votsis said that Cypriot private power producers will have to wait another three years before they can gain access to the electricity...
MPs uncertain over extended smoking ban
By Evie Andreou MPs said on Thursday that that they had yet to agree on a number of provisions of the bill to tighten regulations...
Constitution amended to rule out death penalty resurgence
The House plenum on Friday approved a constitution amendment to scrap a provision that could allow for legislation to impose the death penalty for a...
Our View: Mob rule uses patriotism to protect financial interests
SEVEN deputies were among the 200-strong crowd that gathered outside the warehouse/packaging plant of Christos Christofi in Achna and tried to storm it, because the...
Call to retire old cabinless tractors after teen death
The Green Party-Citizens Cooperation on Thursday called for the obligatory use of safety cabins on all tractors to avoid the loss of lives, as was...
