Archive February 2023

Bond investors are starting to trim holdings of US debt to brace for a possible government default that they see as highly unlikely but potentially seismic for financial markets around ...

Cyprus’ trade deficit increased by 38.9 per cent between January and November 2022, reaching €6.8 billion compared to €4.9 billion in the corresponding period of 2021, according to a report released this week by the ...

The world of stablecoins is suddenly looking shaky. Seismic shifts may be afoot in the $137 billion market after New York-based Paxos Trust Company, which mints Binance’s stablecoin, said it ...

By Martin Clark As a child in 1963, I first became aware that all was not well with our beautiful planet. I know this sounds like rather a young age (I ...

The creation of a palliative care centre has long been a vision and a strategy of Pasykaf, its director of medical services Dr Kyriacos Stylianides said on Tuesday at the ...

It was a day full of surprises at Disy headquarters on Tuesday. At the start of the day, three men were scheduled to submit their candidacies for the party leadership, ...

President-elect Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday expressed his readiness to meet with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar whether Unficyp’s chief Colin Stewart would be present or not. Commenting on reports ...

Nurses in England will pause planned strike action to enter “intensive talks” with the British government on pay and conditions, both sides said on Tuesday, in the first sign of ...

A daughter of Malcolm X, the civil rights activist assassinated 58 years ago to the day on Tuesday, has filed notices that she intends to sue the FBI, the CIA, New ...

U.S. President Joe Biden will meet leaders of NATO’s eastern flank on Wednesday in a show of support after Russia’s president suspended a nuclear arms control treaty ...

One lane on the Paphos – Limassol highway will be closed from Wednesday through to Friday between 8am – 3pm. According to an announcement by the road works department, the road will ...

Yields of the short-term domestic bonds issued by the Republic of Cyprus marked a new rise fuelled by global tightening monetary policy on the backdrop of rising inflation. According to ...

Days before leaving office, President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday thanked employers organisations for their ‘close cooperation’ over the last 10 years, and urged them to continue working closely with his successor. ...

Cyprus is duty-bound to protect and highlight ecclesiastical monuments as an integral part of its culture and history, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Tuesday, when he went to oversee ...

For the fifth year in a row, Nicosia topped the list of small European cities of the future, research by fDi Intelligence, a division of the Financial Times group, revealed ...

People providing accommodation services will be afforded a transitional period to register with the governmental Airbnb register, under tweaks made to the relevant law announced on Tuesday in parliament. The ...

The Commandaria Orchestra & Friends Concert Series welcomes The Fluboe Trio for an unforgettable baroque music concert on Saturday. Three musicians will take the floor of the Cyprus Wine Museum ...

A 23-year-old man was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday over an arson attack in Larnaca last summer. The Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court found the man guilty of stealing ...

Court proceedings in Cyprus which ordered a woman to hand over her son to be extradited to the US to be with his father in 2017, did not violate the European ...

The ‘government’ in the north on Tuesday officially repealed a decree to tax people’s salaries to provide earthquake relief to Turkey. According Yeni Duzen, the official decision of the ‘...

A company has had its health and safety violations fine increased from €750 to €7,500 after the attorney general appealed the penalty. The legal services said on Tuesday the attorney general appealed ...

Legislators on Tuesday vetoed the outgoing administration’s proposal to appoint three members to the Gaming & Casino Supervision Commission – the public body exercising oversight over the casinos – leaving the ...

Current Disy leader Averof Neophytou on Tuesday bowed out of the race for the next party leader on Tuesday, in what has narrowed down to a face-off between House President ...

Turkish lawyers are seemingly being blocked from accessing records on the Isias hotel in Adiyaman, the hotel that collapsed during an earthquake earlier this month killing 35 Turkish Cypriots, reports from ...