Archive 2021

The health ministry on Saturday announced that one person had died of Covid and that 268 had tested positive from 16,231 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 1.65 per cent. Case ...

A man who entered the grounds of Windsor Castle, where Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is spending Christmas, has been arrested and is being held on suspicion of possession of an ...

Live music gigs are here to entertain all sorts of music fans as the year draws to an end. In Nicosia, Sarah’s Jazz Club has four shows coming up ...

Through food and culture, a YouTube channel looks at what it means to be from the island. Eleni Philippou meets the woman behind it Christmas is a time of family ...

The health ministry announced the testing sites, 44 in total, for Sunday, December 26, in all districts, for eligible groups. To get tested people need to present their ID, passport or driver’...

You don’t often hear Santa Clause referred to as real scum, but that is the title of the Christmas comedy Alpha Square is currently presenting. Written by the hilarious ...

Where do you live? I am living in Larnaca with my partner and our fur babies..!! What did you have for breakfast? Homemade pancakes with fruits and hazelnut praline (vegan, ...

By Paul Whiteley It has been a bad few weeks for Boris Johnson and the Conservative government. It began with allegations that Christmas parties had been held in Downing Street ...

Everyone goes on about the palaver of the turkey come December 25, but some of the best festive cooking at this time of year is actually spent in the run up ...

Commercial airlines around the world canceled more than 4,500 flights over the Christmas weekend, as a mounting wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant created greater uncertainty and misery ...

Police stepped up their Covid checks at on Christmas Eve fining 24 individuals and five businesses for violations during 3,585 checks. Between 6am Friday and 6am Saturday, seven people were fined for ...

In his Christmas message, Archbishop Chrysostomos called on the faithful not to forget their fighting spirit because the “behaviour of the invader” does not allow for any complacency. The message ...

Batman: Arkham Origins is considered by many gamers to be the definitive Christmas game, although, like the 1998 action classic Die Hard, it did not strive to earn that title, rather ...

Merry Christmas! Today is the end of Advent, a period which references the Latin adventus, or the ‘arrival’ of Christ. But there’s a lot more to the last few ...

The European Union and the Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for People Valdis Dombrovskis launched an initiative this week to further restrict tax evasion through the use of ...

Cyprus has seen a 67 per cent increase in full-time researchers during the previous decade, according to a report released earlier this month by Eurostat, the statistical service of the European ...

The percentage of people who made online purchases showed a significant increase, which reached 48 per cent in the first quarter of 2021 compared to 34.1 per cent in the corresponding period last ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The experience with the pandemic has brought to the surface the age-old issue of the role of the central government and its importance towards ...

Developing countries, especially in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, are the leaders in cryptocurrency adoption. Although only El Salvador has made Bitcoin a legal tender, several governments, institutions, businesses, and ...

It’s not a lockdown this year, but the spread of Omicron has scuppered many family festive reunions As people are forced to spend yet another Christmas blighted by Covid-19, ...

There may still be 14 months to go until the presidential elections, but we already have two confirmed candidates, one who is subject to his party’s endorsement early next year, ...

Two people died from Covid and 917 new infections were detected after 112,532 tests, a positivity rate of 0.81 per cent, the health ministry said on Friday. The deaths concern two men, both 91. ...

Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOL) maker Eve, part of Brazilian planemaker Embraer (EMBR3.SA), is planning to go public in the fifth such debut as investors bet on ...

The number of first time asylum seekers applying for international protection in the European Union rose by 58 per cent year-on-year in September 2021, with Cyprus receiving 1,120, according to monthly data published ...