Archive January 2023

In a special session on Thursday, the House plenum gave the nod to urgent spending items for several government departments and agencies while also releasing funds allowing for the operation ...

The pedestrian who was struck and killed by a vehicle along the Nicosia-Kokkinotrimithia highway has been identified as 28-year-old Jean Baptiste Lizongo Mokonza. The police detailed on Thursday that the ...

American actor Alec Baldwin faces involuntary manslaughter charges carrying prison time for the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the 2021 filming of Western “Rust” in New Mexico. Santa Fe’...

Thursday’s meeting between the pharmacists association and the Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) ended in impasse over a dispute over compensation sought by the former, who hinted at possible measures ...

Former world number one Andy Murray produced one of his greatest ever comebacks to sink home hope Thanasi Kokkinakis in a titanic second-round thriller at the Australian Open in the ...

A 50-year-old man will stand trial on February 1 after having been charged with extracting money under false pretences. Paphos district court ordered the suspect held in police custody until the ...

Sufficient quantities of a children’s antibiotic will become available in Cyprus in the coming days, after it was reported stocks were in shortage, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on ...

A jazz night is coming up at Technopolis 20 as two well-established Cypriot musicians prepare a cosy performance. Part of the Paphos venue’s Jazz Music Concert Series is this second ...

You’ve heard of speed dating to meet potential love interests through a series of quick-fire, back-to-back dates and a few of these events have taken place in Cyprus too. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday called on unions to suspend strikes over of cost-of-living allowance (CoLA), after Peo union said that three out of four workers are expected to participate ...

The price of holidays from Britain has risen by 44 per cent in the last year, including to Cyprus, which has gone up 15 per cent, it emerged on Thursday. Air tickets ...

Turkey’s unusual request that its retailers partially freeze prices ahead of elections has prompted some supermarkets and industry groups to warn they could only do so for a short ...

Over 300 children will be examined by orthopaedic doctors visiting Cyprus from the Shriners Hospital in the US, Health Minster Michalis Hadjipantela said on Thursday, visiting the George and Thelma Paraskevaides ...

Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides on Thursday accused US news network CBS of promulgating old news after its 60 Minutes programme this week pointed the finger at Cyprus as “one of the ...

Cypriot banks enter the cycle of uncertainty created by the war in Ukraine in a strong position, Andrea Enria, President of the ECB’s Supervisory Council told CNA, calling however ...

Bets on the presidential elections will be closed from January 28 onwards, the national betting authority announced on Thursday. Candidate Nikos Christodoulides remains the bookies’ favourite as his odds to win ...

The world’s most powerful activist confronted the man in charge of regulating global energy in Davos on Thursday, demanding an end to fossil fuel investments. Greta Thunberg urged IEA ...

The United States and its allies failed during talks in Germany to convince Berlin to provide its Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, a key demand from Kyiv as it tries ...

Israel has not identified any evidence linking strokes to an updated coronavirus vaccine made by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, according to a health ministry official. ...

Although brisk and modern, Kouklia was on the map in ancient times too discovers PAUL LAMBIS as he heads to the popular Paphos village When it comes to diversity, the ...

Gold prices inched higher on Thursday as investors weighed the chances of the US Federal Reserve slowing its pace of interest rate hikes. Spot gold was up 0.3 per cent at $1,908.69 ...

Presidential candidate Yulia Khovrina-Komninos is advocating that Cyprus should leave the Euro currency behind and reinstate the old Cyprus pound. “Our programme for the economy includes the key proposal that ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce is offering free energy audits and consulting services on energy saving to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) The initiative, announced on Thursday and part of ...

By Daniel Jolley and Anthony Lantian From vaccine uptake to violent extremism, conspiracy beliefs are linked to distrust in major institutions or powerful figures. Research developed in the last decade ...