Archive 2022

The health ministry on Thursday announced one more death attributed to Covid-19, while testing detected 3, 951 new positives. The latest fatality was a man aged 84. That brings the death toll since ...

Unvaccinated individuals run the risk of hospitalisation for Covid-19 that is four to 30 times higher than for the vaccinated, the health ministry said on Thursday. The data released runs up ...

Though several local theatre ensembles are staging plays right now nearly all are in Greek but this weekend a play in English arrives to entertain theatre lovers in Nicosia and ...

Cuba said late on Wednesday it had sentenced upwards of 100 protesters in Havana to between 4 and 30 years in prison for violence committed during island-wide demonstrations last year, the largest since ...

The testing sites for Saturday are as follows: District Location of testing units Operating hours Telephone Nicosia (15 units) Nicosia Mall 9 am – 6 pm 96625766 Agios Dometios Municipality (event hall) 9 am – 6 pm 70000166 Agios ...

Turkish Cypriots seeking up to €50 million in compensation from the Republic for use of their land have had their claim rejected by the Paphos district court. The legal services announced ...

Rescue workers on Thursday dug survivors out of the rubble of a theatre in the besieged city of Mariupol which Ukraine said had been hit by a Russian air strike ...

Authorities are working on increasing occupancy on flights to mitigate the loss of visitors from Russia and Ukraine, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Thursday during a visit to Paralimni ...

New art exhibitions will open on Friday in Nicosia and Limassol. The 14th edition of Lush Art in Difficult Times launches this weekend, hosted at Limassol’s isnotgallery with 18 participating ...

In its first year of operation, Paphos police’s domestic violence unit investigated 271 cases that led to 126 arrests, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Thursday. Paphos deputy police chief Michalis ...

The drive, as you turn off from the Nicosia Limassol highway to Ktima Dafermou is not long. As you climb up, the Ktima Dafermo winery suddenly appears on your right. ...

The agriculture ministry has awarded a tender for the purchase of a quantity of 20,500 tonnes of corn from alternative sources, with reserves for animal feed estimated to be down to ...

A 38-year-old man was remanded for a further eight days on Thursday for his alleged involvement in a huge drug bust in which 132kg of cannabis was seized by police. ...

A 47-year-old Ukrainian man with Russian citizenship whom the Cypriot courts agreed to extradite to Russia has had the process postponed, due to the “force majeure” of the invasion. The ...

As COVID curbs cut travel and duty-free shopping, South Koreans are driving a luxury goods boom at home that has left Chanel barring nearly a third of would-be shoppers to ...

Excessive and unmonitored sick leave periods, police officers convicted of serious crimes given full pension and mistakes on hundreds of traffic fines that forced authorities to cancel them, form part ...

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been granted a licence to conduct some operations in Dubai, the company said on Wednesday, from where it plans to carry out ...

After a short hiatus and a temporary love affair with brunch places – which might come back during Cyprus’ short but amazing spring – I returned to the island’s queen of ...

A fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose has been deemed “inevitable” amongst the general population and not just for the elderly or vulnerable groups, while the current testing programme may be trimmed. ...

A new Russian law on leased aircraft showed Moscow could “confiscate” planes and such a move might help it claim insurance, Air Lease Corp (AL.N) said at a time ...

Government services on the web are set to be centralised into a single portal “gov.cy” within the next two months, while digital IDs and signatures are also set to ...

The Cypriot economy continues to grow, showing improvement over the performance of the previous year, but external factors are contributing to a loss of momentum, according to a report by ...

Two police officers were honoured for saving lives in separate cases at a special event on Thursday. They were both off duty at the time. “Police are on alert 24-7, ...

Oil prices climbed about 3 per cent on Thursday after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said markets could lose three million barrels a day (bpd) of Russian crude and refined products ...