Archive 2021

Testing locations for Tuesday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Lemesos (5 units) Cyprus University of Technology (TEPAK) Square, behind Rectorate 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Pano Polemidia ...

The health ministry has reclassified three countries on its list of colour-coded destinations for Covid-19. The changes, which take effect from Thursday December 30 included moving New Zealand from orange to ...

Over 4,000 people have applied for cash incentives to buy electric vehicles, the transport ministry announced on Monday. The first phase of the plan was implemented on December 20, 2021, and will run ...

The health ministry announced on Monday that inspections at workplaces would begin on December 29 to ensure employees have their Covid papers. The ministry said all employees who have had two ...

The north has announced a curbing of activities ahead of the New Year after detecting close to 30 cases of Omicron. According to reports from the north, only up to 10 people ...

Chinese citizens lashed out online against billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk’s space ambitions on Monday after China complained that its space station was forced to take evasive action to ...

A first of its kind study on the levels of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 among Cypriots who had Covid-19 has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical Medicine. The study ...

The department of antiquities announced on Monday that the lighting at Larnaca castle have been switched off due to “serious technical problems” “Efforts are being made by all those involved ...

Manchester City led the way in a bumper Boxing Day goal feast in the Premier League on Sunday with a 6-3 win over Leicester City sending them six points clear ...

The road transport department announced on Monday that vehicle registration licences can be renewed starting on January 7 and ending March 11, 2022. Licences can be renewed for a period of three, six, ...

The EAC said on Monday that its Strovolos Customer service centre will remain closed today Monday 27 and tomorrow Tuesday 28 December due to a coronavirus case. The other customer service centres ...

An Israeli hospital administered fourth COVID-19 vaccine doses on Monday to a test group, as the country considers approving the measure for vulnerable populations in a bid to outpace a ...

The family of a four-year-old boy with a rare cancer are racing to put together the remainder of the money they need to take their son to America to take ...

Two men, aged 41 and 51 have been arrested in connection with a case of illegal trapping and killing of wild birds in Zygi, following a complaint by anti-trapping activists. The two ...

Primarily male-dominated entrepreneurial ground has seen some of the most incredible innovations when women have set their foot into the industry. Today, their entrepreneurial ideas have been evolving various business ...

Paphos police are investigating two cases of burglary which netted thieves a total of 16,000 euros over the weekend. Police said that in Tsada, a 71-year-old homeowner reported that a small ...

Business at leisure and recreations centres were down between 50 and 65 per cent over the holiday weekend, the association of recreation centres (Osika) said on Monday. The measures taken to deal ...

During the past 24 hours police carried out 2,297 Covid checks to see if people had their required documentation, fining 13 individuals and six businesses for violating mandates. In Nicosia, 734 inspections were carried ...

Australia reported its first confirmed death from the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Monday amid another surge in daily infections, but the authorities refrained from imposing new restrictions saying ...

A 17-year-old girl is suspected of trying to break into the Peyia police station while officers were out on patrol Sunday evening. According to police, after they returned from patrol ...

This year, tech CEOs drew inspiration from a 1990s sci-fi novel, Reddit investors’ lexicon seeped into the mainstream as “diamond hands” and “apes” shook Wall Street, and something called a ...

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” unwrapped the best Christmas gift of all, becoming the first pandemic-era movie to cross $1 billion at the global box office. Sony’s comic-book epic has eclipsed ...

The United Arab Emirates government has told some of its biggest business families that it plans to remove their monopolies on the sale of imported goods, the Financial Times reported ...

Towering above a nondescript office quarter of downtown Frankfurt, a 47th floor three-bedroom apartment is on sale for 9 million euros ($10 million), a lofty price some see as a warning. Dubbed “...