Parliament is discussing a bill which aims to outline the rules of remote working.
The bill, which was put to the house on Thursday, sets out the rights and responsibilities ...
Parliament on Thursday passed a law raising the maximum court-imposed fine on employers for failing to pay employees’ salaries.
The text of the legislation was also amended so to as ...
The House on Thursday rejected the president’s veto of a law passed in late March which requires structural integrity checks on Turkish Cypriot properties in the south.
MPs had ...
Parliament on Thursday approved another two-month extension for reduced fuel tax until the end of June, going one better than the government proposal.
By a unanimous vote, the House passed ...
President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday referred back to parliament a law it passed in late March regarding the handling of Turkish Cypriot properties in the south, deeming the legislation unconstitutional.
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High school exams will include only 60 per cent of the teaching material this year, after the plenum approved a relevant education ministry proposal on Thursday.
The approved proposal also provides ...
The commerce ministry is to draw up legislation to close a loophole in the law that allows vendors to charge extra to consumers using credit cards.
The legislation will allow ...
The House on Thursday gave the nod to the state budget for fiscal year 2023, in what was parliament’s final act of the year before going into mandatory recess ahead ...
It is unacceptable that state broadcaster CyBC is not streaming parliament’s live session and is instead broadcasting the World Cup, House President Annita Demetriou said on Tuesday.
To this ...
Parliament on Friday voted in favour of amending the constitution on family law, broadening its scope on the cases the courts could hear.
With 49 votes in favour and one abstinence, ...
MPs approved the government’s second supplementary €345m budget on Friday with 49 votes in favour and one abstention.
The key points of the additional budget are €150m to be spent ...
Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday slammed parliament’s decision to extend the foreclosures freeze, saying it ignored both the government’s and central bank’s warnings against this.
Petrides ...
Parliament on Thursday decided to postpone a planned vote on a legislative proposal that, if passed, would have extended by three more months a freeze on property foreclosures.
Voting on ...
Authorities had decided not to prosecute two former senior Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA) cadres who were being investigated for abusing ‘revolving door’ rules for civil servants, lawmakers heard on Thursday.
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Surrogates, egg trafficking, IVF funding, and the dangers from illegal fertility clinics in the north prompted MPs at the House health committee on Thursday call for an investigation, given the ...
The state budget for 2023, submitted on Thursday by Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides, has been increased by €500 million.
Petrides met with House President Annita Demetriou in her office to deliver his ...
Efforts are underway in parliament to give the public a greater say as to what is debated and even the power to table legislation and reverse government decisions.
Diko MP ...
Revisions to the law on the management of Turkish Cypriot properties are expected to be tabled to parliament in October to cover a multi-million deficit, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said ...
Main opposition Akel on Thursday sought to turn up the heat on the administration, revealing that several beneficiaries of the ‘golden passports’ scheme made significant donations to the ruling party.
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House of Representatives is invoking the doctrine of necessity to undo a merged court that was itself created under the same doctrine
The House of Representatives may reactivate Cyprus’ Supreme ...
Former judges and cabinet ministers on Friday hailed the amendment of the constitution to allow for what they deemed faster and high-quality justice to prevail, but noted that this should ...
Following three years of debate in committee, the House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation clearing the way for broad reform of the justice system that is hoped will shorten ...
The attorney general must clarify whether he approved measures which will curtail the public’s access to their homes and fields, Akel MP Aristos Damianos said on Thursday after he ...
Ordinary citizens may soon be able to petition the government and parliament under two bills currently under discussion in the House legal affairs committee.
Both bills, one submitted by the ...