Archive 2021

The Premier League is under increasing pressure to suspend this weekend’s entire schedule following a raft of coronavirus-enforced postponements. Five of the 10 scheduled matches across Saturday and Sunday have ...

Police on Friday announced that there will be increased security measures and brief traffic interruptions in Larnaca and Nicosia due to the arrival of Jordan’s King Abdullah II, due ...

For all of the year’s shortage of events, the Christmas period seems to be making up for it! Even with more complex measures, plenty of events are taking place ...

Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill Paxlovid will soon be available in Cyprus, deputy director of the pharmaceutical services Elena Panayiotopoulou said on Friday, after the EU drugs regulator approved its early ...

In today’s episode, Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios unveiled details of the ‘National Strategy for Tourism’ for 2022 after two devastating years. In other news, the vaccination of children ...

Polis Chrysochou municipality will hold a swab sampling on Sunday to try and find a compatible bone marrow donor for an eight-year-old boy with leukaemia. Loukas Stavrou is fighting leukaemia ...

The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail, brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this ...

Four businesses were fined a total of €9,500 in the 24 hours until 6am on Friday after a total of 2,302 checks for the correct implementation of coronavirus measures. During the checks, 24 individuals ...

What is programming? A computer program is a set of instructions that are run on a device to do specific functions, and Programmers are responsible for the creation of this ...

A 17-year-old was hospitalised in critical condition on Friday after a car crashed into the motorcycle he was driving in Paphos. Police said the accident occurred around 3.30pm on Thursday ...

The Association of Cyprus Banks on Thursday took part in an online seminar examining the progress achieved in the Cypriot banking system, as well as the efforts to combat money ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party lost control of a previously safe parliamentary seat on Friday in a surprise election result interpreted as a voter backlash against a British ...

The Bank of England on Thursday became the world’s first major central bank to raise interest rates since the coronavirus pandemic hammered the global economy, and warned inflation was ...

Embracer (EMBRACb.ST) said late on Wednesday it was buying French board games publisher Asmodee from private equity firm PAI Partners in a deal valued at 2.75 billion euros ($3.11 billion) to ...

Major US air carriers warned on Wednesday that plans by wireless carriers to use spectrum for 5G wireless services starting Jan. 5 could disrupt thousands of daily flights and cost air ...

The country’s tourism boss sounded a cautiously optimistic note on Thursday about the sector’s prospects in the new year, but acknowledged the looming uncertainty as European leaders in ...

The agreement between unions of the two sides to arrange the employment of Turkish Cypriots in the Republic, which is faced by acute labour shortages was a commendable initiative. The ...

Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold scored a spectacular goal as the Reds bounced back from the loss of three players to suspected positive COVID-19 tests to beat Newcastle United 3-1 in ...

The censorship of a kiss between two men in the broadcast of a Greek series by a local channel was another setback for gay rights in Cyprus, LGBT activists said ...

The health ministry on Thursday issued more clarifications regarding people’s access to certain types of venues in terms of vaccination or testing status. Under the new rules, effective December 15, ...

The last 12 Canadian and American missionaries from a group kidnapped in October in Haiti have been released, police said on Thursday, ending an ordeal that brought global attention to the ...

A psychologist testifying for Ghislaine Maxwell‘s defense in the British socialite’s sex abuse trial said on Thursday that people can sound confident when they recall false memories. The ...

The ombudswoman said Thursday she has asked the Limassol-based university of technology (Tepak) to reverse a decision banning unvaccinated students from physically attending classes saying it was discriminatory. Maria Stylianou ...

England face a reunion with European champions Italy in next year’s Nations League and another grudge match with Germany. Gareth Southgate’s side were also drawn to face Hungary, ...