Archive 2021

Peyia is mulling what steps to take after losing a court case to block the development of a hillside above the Paphos town. The local municipality had challenged the government’...

Greeks headed to beaches and public parks on Sunday as a rare January heat wave offered a respite from the coronavirus lockdown that has thrown life across Europe into disarray. ...

The health ministry announced one death and 339 new cases of people testing positive for Covid-19 on Sunday from both PCR and rapid testing totalling 8,778. The death concerned a 75-year-old man ...

British car company bosses were handed a generous gift on Christmas Eve in the form of the announcement that Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union included ...

The health ministry has announced the following sites for rapid testing on Monday. District Sampling points Hours Limassol Lidl Supermarket Parking, Limassol (45 Franklin Roosevelt Street) 8.30am-4.30pm Parking at “Sigma” ...

Federal agents arrested two more people who entered Capitol Hill whose images had gone viral, of one carrying off the House speaker’s lectern and another who wore horns and ...

The mass media will ensure the talks fail A modern society without mass communications is inconceivable. Television, newspapers, radio and the internet are the main sources of information the world ...

Another 3,960 Covid vaccination appointments will be available through the government portal to people over 80 from Monday, the health ministry has announced. People who qualify will be able to arrange their ...

Bordeaux is a town best known as France’s wine headquarters. Yet over the past decade, this wonderful old metropolis – ten times smaller than Paris – has been enjoying a new ...

‘Lockdown losses have cost Lebanon 20 per cent of its current GDP’ Lebanon has just entered its fourth Covid-19 lockdown since the pandemic began. Skyrocketing numbers have forced the Lebanese government ...

A 32-year-old man has been arrested for driving 200 km per hour on the Nicosia – Larnaca highway on Sunday morning, police said. The driver was caught at around 10.40am. Investigations revealed ...

Hellenic Bank said on Sunday it was ready to implement the latest Covid decree and was reducing the number of staff who would be working at its branches. The bank ...

Akel, through it’s Nicosia-Kyrenia Secretary Christos Christofides, on Sunday slammed President Nicos Anastasiades for saying in a Politis interview that the government had successfully managed the second wave of ...

President Nicos Anastasiades said on Sunday he had put out feelers to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu about the possibility of procuring vaccines from Tel Aviv. In an interview with ...

Controversy may well always dog the Nicosia square project, but Nicosians can now sigh with relief that bar a few finishing touches, it is finally complete Eleftheria square in Nicosia ...

The Spanish government will send convoys carrying the COVID-19 vaccine and food supplies on Sunday to areas cut off by Storm Filomena which brought the heaviest snowfall in decades across ...

The Ledra Street police station, which has been closed for months, is reopening on Monday on a 24-hour basis, it was announced. The move is partly to beef up enforcement ...

Business organisations on Sunday issued a “desperate plea” in a letter to the president to increase the number of people allowed to have a physical presence at work to 25 per ...

Disy’s deputy chairman has some explaining to do over his recent opposition to a federation An article written by Harris Georgiades, Disy’s deputy chairman, entitled ‘The new realism’ ...

About 80% of people in Japan say this year’s Tokyo Olympics should be cancelled or delayed as worries mount about a record surge in coronavirus cases across the country, a ...

Rapid testing for businesses that will remain open during the three-week lockdown begins on Monday, the health ministry announced Sunday. The sampling will be carried out at mobile units at ...

Always exercise responsibly and safely. Ideally under the guidance of a trained fitness and/or medical professional, who can match the exercise or sports regimen to your present level of ...

A 32-year-old man who was injured in a work accident in Paralimni on January 6 died late Saturday at the Nicosia general hospital ICU, it was reported on Sunday. The foreign ...

Every pet deserves a loving and respectful home: please only consider acquiring a pet if you will be able to take care of its long-term needs. A rabbit’s sleeping ...