Archive April 2021

Two people, including a teenager, have been arrested in connection with a case of causing serious bodily harm to someone in Paphos on March 28. According to police, the two suspects, ...

A five-year-old Syrian migrant boy stranded in the north by himself for 45 days was this week reunited with his parents. The boy’s 27-year-old father has lived in Cyprus for ...

The rules must be jointly formulated by the two federated states while their enforcement would be up to the constituent states The issue of a “decentralised” federation has been preoccupying ...

The next installment of ‘Indiana Jones’ has found its female lead. Emmy-winning ‘Fleabag’ sensation Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been cast to star opposite Harrison Ford in the long-awaited fifth film in ...

A total of 68 cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the north on Saturday, out of a total of 7,698 tests. According to ‘health minister’ Unal Ustel, two cases were people who ...

A problem with electrical power caused an incident in Iran’s Natanz underground nuclear facility, Iranian Press TV reported, a day after Tehran launched new advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges in ...

In the 48 hours until 6am on Sunday morning police charged 325 people and 10 businesses for breaking coronavirus protocols, from a total of 20,034 checks. In Limassol seven businesses were charged, of which ...

Bitcoin rose above $60,000 to approach record highs on the weekend, breaking out of a two-week tight range and propelled by talk of constrained new supplies against evidence of wider adoption. ...

Euro zone banks borrowed a record €1.31 trillion ($1.47 trillion) from the European Central Bank on Thursday, taking advantage of negative interest rates to meet growing demand for credit from companies seeking ...

Sheffield United will hope to maintain their city’s stranglehold over Arsenal when they host the Gunners at Bramall Lane on Sunday evening. Arsenal fans have to go back into ...

The euro is in a comeback phase against the pound, due to vaccination rollout improvements and some good economic data. “The British pound is on course to record its sharpest ...

Harry Maguire is “ready for battle” with England team-mate Harry Kane as Manchester United look to exact revenge on Tottenham. While Manchester City’s eye-watering lead means the Premier League ...

Venus Minerals has started diamond drilling in the Troodos, and this means that Cyprus will soon be able to take advantage of the rising demand for copper. “Cyprus can play ...

Pre-Brexit, permanent residents could vote in local elections and hold office More than three months after Brexit was finalised, British permanent residents are pressing for answers from the Cyprus government ...

Promotions and appointments in the broader public sector have become something of a tradition ahead of elections, ever since the late president Spyros Kyprianou introduced the practice in the early ...

A WEEK rarely goes by without the auditor-general Odysseas, Kyproulla’s self-proclaimed Elliot Ness, featuring in the news. He is second only to Prez Nik in the publicity race, in ...

Not since the 1930s and World War II have states arrogated to themselves such wide powers impinging on human rights and fundamental freedoms as they did in 2020-21. Governments contemplating ...

With outright surprise we took notice of the historical overview of Russian-Cypriot relations “Russia is not the horse to bet on” (Sunday Mail, April 4). The underlying message of the article ...

I write in response to the article in last week’s Sunday Mail by George Koumoullis, entitled “Accepting a mandatory lockdown but not a vaccine makes no sense”. How a ...

In his excellent profile of the animal loving Andreas Tsavellas and his DVD emporium (Sunday Mail, April 4) Theo Panayides is right to point out that “Netflix and its rivals only ...

An estimated 10,000 people marched in Nicosia on February 20 – yet there was no spike in coronavirus cases two weeks later. We were told this was because they were wearing masks and (...

Real Madrid beat rivals Barcelona 2-1 at home in an entertaining, rain-soaked ‘Clasico’ on Saturday to go top of La Liga. Karim Benzema put the champions in charge at a ...

Rachael Blackmore made Grand National history by becoming the first female jockey to win the race as she steered Minella Times across the finishing line at Aintree on Saturday. The ...

The health ministry announced four deaths and 446 new cases of Covid-19 on Saturday from 49,314 PCR and rapid tests with a a positivity rate of 0.9 per cent. The deaths concerned three ...