Archive 2021

By George Tsardellis IN THE recent case of Fysentzides vs K & C Snooker & Pool Entertainment, Civil appeal no. 30/2019, dated 1/6/2020, the Supreme Court of Cyprus has decided on a ...

The daily number of new coronavirus infections in France stayed above 20,000 on average for the fourth straight day on Tuesday while hospitalisations reached an eight-week high of 27,041, increasing fears of ...

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday reported its Azure cloud computing services grew 50 per cent, the second quarter of acceleration in a business that had begun to slow as the global pandemic ...

Police booked 128 individuals, including three managers of businesses, for breaching measures in place to curb the spread of Covid-19 during 24 hours leading up to 6am on Wednesday. In total, 11,528 checks ...

Forty-five Senate Republicans backed a failed effort on Tuesday to halt former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, in a show of party unity that some cited as a clear ...

The inauguration yesterday of Joe Biden as 46th US president is, overall, good news for European investors. The most basic element of progress is unquestionably that the turmoil of the ...

AstraZeneca’s Chief Executive late on Tuesday said the European Union’s late decision to strike a contract with the drugmaker to supply COVID-19 vaccines, months after Britain, meant the ...

Plans to upgrade houses, making them more energy efficient, were presented today by Natasa Pilides, the Minister of Energy, Trade and Industry. At the same time, a scheme to make ...

The British government will on Wednesday announce plans for limited hotel quarantine for Britons returning from 30 high-risk countries covered by a travel ban, the Times reported on Wednesday. These countries ...

The cabinet will meet later today to draw up a plan of action for the coming months for the expected gradual lifting of coronavirus restrictions. One of the most contentious ...

The scientific advisory team was unanimous in its proposal for regulating the movement of citizens through the SMS authorisation system. According to press reports, the team advised the government on ...

Manchester City returned to the top of the Premier League table in emphatic fashion on Tuesday by crushing West Bromwich Albion 5-0 at the Hawthorns. City, who scored three goals ...

Goals from wingers Raphinha and Jack Harrison gave Leeds United a 2-1 win at Newcastle United on Tuesday, piling more pressure on Magpies manager Steve Bruce after the club’s ...

Thomas Tuchel became the latest manager to take over the Chelsea hot seat when the Premier League club confirmed the German as Frank Lampard’s replacement on Tuesday The 47-year-old ...

A section of the newly revamped Piale Pasha Avenue has been eroded by the sea and maintenance work is expected to begin as soon as weather conditions allow, Larnaca Mayor ...

Elsie Slonim, nee Kalmar, aged 103, passed away after a short illness in the early hours of Tuesday morning. She died in her house in the Turkish Cypriot army camp in ...

The energy ministry on Tuesday unveiled a subsidy scheme aimed at owners who want to upgrade their homes and make them more energy efficient. The scheme, whose first stage is ...

Travellers coming into Bulgaria by air, land or sea will need to produce a negative COVID-19 test starting on Jan. 29, the health ministry said on Tuesday, as the Balkan country ...

Turkish Cypriot authorities have imposed a lockdown in Nicosia and Kyrenia for a week and 14 days respectively in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the breakaway ...

A raft of new projects are planned for Polis Chrysochous which are much needed to upgrade the entire area, mayor Giotis Papachristofi said. “These projects are important for Polis, Latchi ...

The health ministry said on Tuesday its rapid Covid testing will be interrupted from Thursday to Sunday due to the government’s decision to ease restrictions. Around 40 testing units, with ...

With lockdowns to contain Covid-19 continuing worldwide, it is likely many diehard travellers will want to make up for lost time, as soon as restrictions on journeys are lifted. Nevertheless, ...

The health ministry announced two deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday and 109 new infections from 10,992 tests, a positivity rate of just under one per cent. The number of deaths since the ...

Former interior minister Constantinos Petrides told an inquiry he had never been a fan of the island’s citizenship by investment programme, which ultimately overturned the excellent image Cyprus had ...