OLOI News & Blog
The Legal Affairs Committee held a closed-door session, outside the regular agenda and in a different room, to discuss a bill on phone call surveillance. The Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, and the Minister of Justice and Public Order were summoned to attend.
Nicosia Mayor Charalambos Prountzos has put forward a new proposal to the Greek Cypriot negotiator Menelaos Menelaou for opening a crossing point in Kaimakli. The alternative emerged after the initiative to open the Mia Milia checkpoint ran into obstacles.
A private school in Limassol has sparked a serious public debate after refusing to allow a school aide for a student who was officially certified as needing one. Remarkably, the child’s mother offered to cover the aide’s entire salary at no cost to the school — yet the answer remained no.
February is shaping up as the deadliest month for road safety in Cyprus in recent years, with five fatalities in traffic collisions — triple the figure recorded in the same period over each of the past two years.
The Legal Service has concluded that a criminal investigation against EDEK MP Marinos Sizopoulos is justified, five months after the Anti-Corruption Authority’s report.
An unprecedented vaccination operation is being launched today across Cyprus, aiming to halt the spread of foot-and-mouth disease threatening the island’s livestock.
Inflation in Cyprus dropped to 0.8% in 2025 — well below the ECB’s 2% target — yet high prices continue to squeeze households. This is the finding of a new study by three Central Bank of Cyprus experts published on the institution’s blog.
Five trade unions at Cyta issued a joint statement expressing full support for the Finance Ministry’s bill to modernize the organisation’s regulatory framework, ahead of a parliamentary debate scheduled for 2 March.
In a stern tone, the Cyprus Paralympic Committee called on MEP Feidias Panagiotou to immediately remove its logo from a video about para-athletes circulating on social media.
The trial of two monks from Avvakoum Monastery, facing 24 serious charges of financial crimes, has been postponed once again. The next hearing is set for 27 May 2026.
