Archive April 2021

A total of 56 rapid test sites will operate across the island on Monday, the health ministry announced. The sites provide free coronavirus tests to the public and for the obligatory ...

In a bid to keep halloumi Cypriot we set ourselves specifications we cannot meet By Kyriacos Iacovides The registering of halloumi as PDO (protected designation of origin) has been hailed ...

In this NMF-sponsored video, we head to Wales to look at a new twist at eco-friendly accommodation – an upcycled UFO in Wales! Whether a visitor fancies a stay in a ...

Around 50 people gathered outside the presidential palace on Sunday to demonstrate against vaccines, police said on Sunday. The demonstration took place between 12-1pm from members of a group called ‘...

The pandemic killed off a number of Hollywood traditions in the past year, but the Oscar season swag bag wasn’t one of them. Every year, celebrity and product-placement marketing ...

Germany rejects a redrawing of borders in the Western Balkans along ethnic lines and the idea has been “put back into a drawer”, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday. ...

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Albania held a parliamentary election on Sunday likely to be a neck-and-neck contest between the ruling Socialists and the opposition as corruption weighs heavily on voters in one of Europe’...

The chairman of the Paphos hotel association called on the government on Sunday to use targeted measures for the pandemic instead of the lockdown, if there are any hopes for ...

There are a few faults with your inductive reasoning as appeared in your editorial Government should have given us no choice over vaccine (Sunday Mail, April 18). First the fact. Medical ...

Could you capture real life, armed with nothing but a simple, ballpoint pen? The answer for most of us, would be – no way. But this is not the case for ...

Despite increasing momentum the danger is that aspirations could end up being more dramatic than real outcomes By Dr Charles Ellinas As a show of global solidarity to tackle climate ...

Cyprus’ Minister of Defence Charalambos Petrides met Saturday with Armenian President Armen Sarkissian in Yerevan, in the context of his official visit to Armenia. According to a press release by ...

The first liturgy of the new Cathedral of the Archbishopric took place on Sunday, a day after it opened its doors to the public. On Saturday, the inauguration of the ...

They are only offered AstraZeneca shots By Antigoni Pitta While most attention over the vaccination programme has been on the constant portal system crashes and the AstraZeneca vaccine, those not ...

A total of 20 per cent of the population in Cyprus has received the first jab of the Covid-19 vaccine, the health ministry announced on Sunday. Specifically, as of April 23, there ...

The days to come in Geneva will have a lot of suspense and drama By Christos P Panayiotides I often get the impression that those involved in the process of ...

President Nicos Anastasiades is slated to travel to Geneva on Monday morning for negotiations on the Cyprus problem, while thousands of demonstrators on Saturday marched for peace ahead of the ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stepped down on Sunday ahead of an early general election he called following criticism over his handling of last year’s conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. Pashinyan, ...

The world would be much more relaxed if coronavirus was seen as treatable. So why aren’t drugs currently used for other problems but linked to helping patients being administered ...

By Ruslan Nimchynskyi On April 26, Ukraine marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the catastrophic nuclear accident which occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. ...

Four people were arrested on Sunday morning after two police officers were attacked and needed hospital treatment, after they tried to break up a party in Paphos. The four, aged 25, 26 ...

I have been following your news coverage of the Cyprus government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and would like to compliment you for your mostly balanced and objective reporting, ...

A total of 195 citizens and four businesses were booked for violating Covid-19 measures in the past 24 hours, police announced on Sunday. According to the Cyprus News Agency, between 6am on ...