Archive February 2022

Four people were arrested on Friday night in Paphos after police said they found drugs and a number of potentially stolen items in two homes, including jewellery, watches, laptop computers, ...

By Press Association Pep Guardiola has dismissed Jurgen Klopp’s suggestion Liverpool are not in a position to challenge Manchester City for the Premier League title. Liverpool boss Klopp said ...

By Athanasios Gavos Friendship and democracy bind Cyprus and the UK, the Speaker of House of Commons has said ahead of a visit to the island next week. The bilateral ...

Testing Kwoklyn Wan’s new super speedy cookbook It’s that time of year when New Year’s resolutions start slipping. Maybe you wanted to eat more healthily or do ...

British nationals who choose to stay in Ukraine should not expect a military evacuation if conflict with Russia breaks out, junior defence minister James Heappey told Sky News on Saturday. “...

Rental values for both apartments and houses rose during the fourth quarter of the previous year, according to a report released this week by independent real estate asset management and ...

Renewable energy accounted for 37.1 per cent of the total energy used for heating and cooling in Cyprus in 2020 – the ninth highest rate in the EU and up from 19.97 per cent ...

By Clark Young I attended Georgetown University from 2005-2009 where Professor Karski had previously taught for five decades. And yet I didn’t know anything about him until years after ...

Protesters opposing pandemic restrictions flouted a court order and emergency rules, continuing to occupy a vital Canada-U.S. trade corridor early on Saturday, hours after a judge granted an injunction ...

U.S. President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will speak on Saturday as Western nations warned that a war in Ukraine could ignite at any moment. Putin ...

The Bank of Cyprus on Friday announced that it has been named ‘Best Private Banking & Wealth Management Bank’ in Cyprus for 2022 after an online voting process surveying customers on ...

The transformation of banks’ business model towards digitalisation and their profitability enhancement by rationalising their cost structure, while closely monitoring the underlying risks of this transformation, are the main banking ...

By Ioannis Tirkides Occasionally, events unfold in close proximity that can be described as seminal. We call them seminal because of their significant impact. They mark a change in the ...

The 65-year-old building housing Limassol police headquarters needs maintenance and improvement as a matter of urgency, House legal affairs committee president Nicos Tornaritis said on Friday after he headed a ...

The health ministry on Thursday gave a breakdown of the vaccination status of Covid patients in hospitals. A little more than half of those in hospital (55 per cent) were unvaccinated, ...

The testing sites for Saturday are as follows District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Limassol (18 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” store) 9 am – 6 pm 77774400 Pano ...

Messenger service Telegram, which has proved popular with far-right groups and people opposed to Covid-related restrictions, has blocked 64 of its channels in Germany, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday, without giving ...

President Nicos Anastasiades discussed the government’s Climate Change Initiative and developments in the Cyprus problem at the ‘One Ocean’ international summit in Brest, France, on Friday. According to government ...

The health ministry announced that four people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,485 had tested positive from 115,325 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.15 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

As a leading maritime nation, Cyprus feels responsible to accelerate the transition of shipping to a low carbon and climate-resilient industry, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday, addressing the One ...

Canada’s Ontario province declared a state of emergency on Friday and Premier Doug Ford threatened fines and jail terms as authorities came under increasing pressure from the United States ...

The children’s rights commissioner has responded to parents’ complaints over the education ministry’s rollout of a book criticised for causing “terror”, minimising the mental health impact of lockdowns ...

Police on Friday said they identified three cars imported to Cyprus by a crime ring which, with the alleged involvement of public servants, has been importing slightly damaged luxury vehicles ...

A court in the north on Friday ordered six-day remands for two suspects as authorities continued to investigate the gang-style execution of Turkish Cypriot businessman Halil Falyali, who was gunned ...