Archive February 2021

Elderly British expats hit the hardest by pandemic-induced closure For 91-year-old Ivy Gibson the UKCA social club in Paphos is a lifeline that staves off loneliness, a feeling that has ...

Electric hypercar maker Rimac Automobili and Volkswagen’s supercar brand Bugatti are a good technological fit, Porsche AG’s CEO told German weekly Automobilwoche, fuelling hopes that a deal between ...

The Manchester City winning machine ploughed on relentlessly with a 1-0 Premier League defeat of Arsenal courtesy of Raheem Sterling’s goal after 75 seconds on Sunday. Sterling’s close-range header ...

A solar power park in Solea has been presented as a green project to increase Cyprus’ production of energy from renewable sources, so why are so many environmentalists against it? ...

The health ministry announced 107 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday from 35,028 PCR and rapid tests, giving a positivity rate of 0.3%. No new deaths occurred. The total to date remains at 229 ...

A week after a protest that was broken up by police, a second protest took place against corruption and the measures taken to control the pandemic. It was much larger ...

The health ministry has announced the testing locations for Monday as follows: District Sampling points Hours Limassol (15 points) Church of Agios Ioannis Eleimonos, Limassol 8.30 a.m.-5.30 p.m. “Panos ...

In 2019, the average salary of a civil servant was €40,000, for a private sector employee it was €20,000 While the official estimate that real GDP contracted by just over 5 per cent in 2020 ...

Dubai can be amusing, in a voyeuristic way, for a week or two. Tallest building in the world and the mall with the shark tank, but it’s the people, ...

Education is the perfect example of a sector that should fall under a central government I consider it necessary, by way of introduction, to explain the important difference that exists ...

Americans may still need to wear masks in 2022 even as the country relaxes other restrictions to combat COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said on ...

From his Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder and 1958 Chevrolet Corvette, to his European-style villa in Beverly Hills… here’s how Grammy award-winning hip-hop producer, rapper and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs spends and ...

A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport due to engine failure on Sunday, killing all seven people on board, the air force said. “First responders ...

A tournament that had to contend with many uncertainties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, climaxed with Novak Djokovic remaining an unbreakable force as he thrashed Daniil Medvedev to claim a ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides With the global economy battling the second wave of the coronavirus, the focus inevitably turns to the short-term management of the biggest socio-economic crisis ...

The Cyprus Medical Association (Cyma) said on Sunday it would await the outcome of legal proceedings concerning allegations of sexual harassment against a Nicosia doctor before taking its own appropriate ...

In this video, we travel to the Spanish island of La Gomera in the Canaries, to encounter an ancient mode of communication. Long before telephones were invented, locals living on ...

In this video, Frick assistant curator of sculpture, Giulio Dalvit, discusses one of the important bronze statuettes in the Collection, a figure of the mythical Greek hero ‘Hercules’ by Antico. ...

The next few days will be crucial when it comes to seeing how the epidemiological picture is unfolding, Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Sunday. In a post on Facebook ...

Britain has started to drive down cases of the more infectious South African variant of coronavirus and will only emerge from lockdown in stages to make sure that does not ...

The government’s new rural housing policy is targeted and “extremely generous” and could be extended next year on review, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Sunday. Nouris was speaking ...

As part of their regular contacts, President Nicos Anastasiades spoke by phone on Sunday with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macros, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos said in a written statement. During ...

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Pig farmers pay the price as year of lockdowns has compounded existing problems Throughout the past year of pandemic disruption, Cyprus seems to have been little impacted in terms of ...