Archive May 2021

By Prudence Wade When Rukmini Iyer moved back in with her parents during the first lockdown of 2020, she accidentally found herself with the most honest recipe testers she could have ...

100 years ago, To Hani tis Paramythas was a haven for the weary traveller. Alix Norman meets a young entrepreneur who’s reviving the inn through the concept of co-living For ...

One business and 21 people were booked for violating coronavirus measures in the past 24 hours, police said. Between 6am on Friday morning to 6am Saturday morning, police said they performed 3,688 checks, 704 ...

Australia’s Victoria state reported five new local COVID-19 cases on Saturday amid a strict lockdown, as people rushed to vaccination centres, causing long lines and technological glitches. The infections ...

After a season in which Europe’s traditional powerhouses stumbled, Saturday’s Champions League final between Manchester City and Chelsea is a showcase for the contemporary dominance of England’s ...

In this video, actress Emily Blunt takes ‘Vanity Fair’ magazine’s infamous lie detector test. Does she prefer the British ‘Office’ over the American version? Has her husband, actor-director John ...

By Michael Sarris In the years before the pandemic, a combination of factors such as political stability, better macroeconomic and structural policies, improving governance and more effective international financial assistance, ...

The US State Department has proposed raising its contribution to UN peacekeeping by some $472 million for 2022, which will include an additional $5.8m for Unficyp, reports said on Saturday. According to ...

By Jean-Pierre Lacroix Over the past year, to be a United Nations peacekeeper in the field has meant adopting new levels of flexibility and resilience in the face of evolving ...

Police are ready to meet the demands of election day on Sunday by dispatching over 2,000 officers on the streets, according to the chief of police Stelios Papatheodorou. Speaking to the ...

Gender has been found to not be a significant factor on how wages are determined amongst the educated in Cyprus, a study has revealed. The Structure of Earnings Survey is ...

The agriculture ministry has come under fire for its lack of progress in adequately protecting Natura 2000 zones, but this time, from the state legal service. For years, the Republic and ...

Nobody could disagree with health minister Constantinos Ioannou’s positive evaluation of Gesy, two years after it was introduced. In an article he penned on the occasion of its second ...

U.S. President Joe Biden released his 2022 budget on Friday, calling for $6 trillion in spending by stitching together his most ambitious spending proposals. Republicans criticized the increase in government spending, ...

The investigation into the forged academic qualification of the volunteerism commissioner was initiated in April, the auditor-general’s office said on Friday after the president accused the audit chief of ...

The health ministry announced three deaths and another 73 positives for Covid-19 on Friday from 62,125 PCR and rapid tests with a positivity rate of 0.12 per cent. The deaths concerned two men ...

President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday France would invest in boosting the production of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa, to help close a gap in the availability of the shots between ...

Police are investigating the theft of €20,000 from a parked vehicle in Limassol on Friday. Limassol CID received a complaint from the owner of the car, a 51-year-old man, according to ...

David Hare’s covid confessional play Beat the Devil, which premiered in Cyprus earlier this year, returns for another performance. Andreas Araouzos takes the British playwright’s monologue to Paphos ...

Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday derailed a bipartisan inquiry into the deadly assault on the Capitol by former President Donald Trump’s supporters, despite a torrent of ...

The Cyprus problem, corruption and possible protest votes were the focus of political parties on Friday in their final messages before Sunday’s parliamentary elections. With the election campaign period ...

The Cyprus Institute and the French Institute have renewed their collaboration on issues of common interest, related to education and research. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony took place ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “unwisely” allowed a refurbishment of his residence to proceed without more rigorous consideration of how it would be funded but did not break the ministerial ...

A total of €700,000 in grants were presented on Friday by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris and Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis to 18 private companies operating in areas adjacent to Nicosia’s Green ...