Archive February 2022

For Britain, the Queen has been a source of strength and continuity for 70 years By Alper Ali Riza 2022 is the Queen’s platinum jubilee year. She has been served by 12 ...

Volkswagen’s (VOWG_p.DE) supercar brand Lamborghini is looking to keep combustion engine vehicles alive beyond the end of the decade, the unit’s Chief Executive Stephan Winkelmann told ...

Billionaire investor George Soros bought nearly 20 million shares of electric truck startup Rivian Automotive Inc (RIVN.O) in the quarter ended Dec. 31, securities filings showed Friday. The 19,835,761 shares, worth about $2 ...

The New York Stock Exchange is withdrawing its mask mandate for fully vaccinated people effective immediately, a source said on Friday, after several large US banks also dropped their mask ...

‘He was bit obsessive… always taking pictures of himself… always out posing…’ Everyone knows online dating can be dangerous, but that never stopped anyone from swiping right. Men who used ...

Canada’s trucker protesters could not have picked a better spot to disrupt the export-driven country’s economy, or the North American auto industry, than the four-lane Ambassador Bridge between ...

This week’s assassination has highlighted the grip of organised crime By Esra Aygin The brutal assassination of a Turkish Cypriot businessman with alleged links to the underworld, days after ...

It was triumphantly hailed by the government as the biggest and most important energy project ever undertaken by the Cyprus Republic, when the contract for the LNG import and regasification ...

UNIVERSAL outrage greeted the publication of the auditor-general’s report about the Gesy specialist doctors who were making big fortunes by submitting countless fictitious payment claims to the Health Insurance ...

After an accident in 2020 I became a wheelchair rider and have been more than annoyed by the fact how many road obstacles we face besides our limitations. The letter from ...

VAT is a stealth tax introduced in Cyprus in 1992 at 5 per cent and steadily increased to the current 20 per cent. There is a new tax, not properly named or explained ...

The health ministry announced that five people had died of Covid-19 and that 2,120 had tested positive from 83,144 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.55 per cent. The deaths concerned ...

On February 12, 2022, with the truckers’ convoy still going strong in Canada, people – and a few noisy trucks – gathered in Nicosia from all over Cyprus, to protest against Covid measures and ...

Man’s best friend will soon be aiding efforts to protect Cyprus’ endangered Griffon vulture population thanks to a new initiative of an EU-funded programme to find and remove poison ...

The testing sites for Sunday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Limassol (15 units) My Mall Limassol (Entrance D, next to “Public” store) 9 am – 6 pm 94041843 Pano ...

Manchester United’s frustrating season continued when they were held to a disappointing 1-1 draw at home to Southampton in the Premier League on Saturday. United started brightly at Old ...

The Russian Olympic Committee delivered a dominant display to win the 4x5km cross-country relay on Saturday, with Germany fending off the superpowers of the sport to take a sensational ...

French police fired tear gas at demonstrators on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris on Saturday shortly after a “Freedom Convoy” protesting against COVID-19 restrictions made it into the capital. ...

Where do you live? In Nicosia with family What did you have for breakfast? Banana with yoghurt and plenty of coffee Describe your perfect day Gym followed by a healthy ...

Scores of protesters in Cyprus protested against coronavirus restrictions and health mandates on Saturday with a convoy of cars that set off from Paphos on its way to Nicosia. The ‘...

Some 363 unemployed people showed up for job interviews at the Alexander The Great hotel in Paphos, the local hoteliers association head Thanos Michaelides said on Saturday, as the local industry ...

A ghost village that has emerged as drought has nearly emptied a dam on the Spanish-Portuguese border is drawing crowds of tourists with its eerie, grey ruins. With the reservoir ...

Police handed out fines totalling €5,750 to five businesses for violating health protocols to contain the spread of coronavirus in the 24 hours to 11:15am Saturday. The businesses, along with 15 individuals, were ...

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