Archive 2023

Short power cuts took place on Saturday morning as the Cyprus transmission system operator overestimated the amount of energy which was to be produced through photovoltaics. The winter weather caught ...

Winter has returned and gripped the island as the met office issued a yellow alert in effect until 5pm Saturday, with snow on the mountains and police urging caution on ...

Limassol will welcome a new exhibition towards the end of the month honouring an important local art figure. The Limassol Municipal Arts Centre Apothikes Papadaki will present a retrospective exhibition ...

By Deborah Kyvrikosaios and Stelios Misinas Greek veterinarians are fighting to save a white tiger cub abandoned in a rubbish bin at an Athens zoo, believed to be a victim ...

Two men were remanded on Saturday after a mob of 40 people armed with bats and iron bars in Yermasogeia attacked two others while they were in their car last Friday. ...

Warming vegetarian options As Lent continues it is an ideal time to work with vegetables says RODDY DAMALIS Lentil and Sweet Potato Pie This pie is one of my favourite ...

Scammers tricked a 79-year-old mother into paying €9,000 for an operation she was told her daughter desperately needed. The lady in Nicosia received a phone call at the home line and ...

From the changing shades of the flag to the colour schemes of the football teams, Cyprus has a distinctive palette. But why were these colours chosen asks Alix Norman Blue ...

Tourist arrivals in Cyprus increased by 65.6 per cent year-on-year in February 2023, reaching 119,081 visitors, up from 71,921 during the same month of the previous year, according to a report released on Friday ...

The number of job vacancies in Cyprus in the fourth quarter of 2022 amounted to 7,821 in total, according to a report released this week by the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat). According ...

By Maria Demertzis The three Rs of regulation, reserves and (legal) recourse are crucial for the smooth functioning of financial markets. These basic underpinnings are missing in decentralised finance, or ...

Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) has won an order to make AirPods for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and plans to build a factory in India to produce the wireless earphones, ...

A court decision vindicating a 78-year-old man for refusing to pay cemetery tax to Oroklini council, may put other municipalities in Cyprus between a rock and a hard place, the ...

The European Central Bank’s decision to raise interest rates by 50 basis points was widely expected. Not even the turmoil in the banking sector could dissuade the ECB council from ...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday hailed Turkey’s decision to move ahead with ratifying Finland’s bid for membership of the military alliance and said he was confident Sweden ...

A group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to regulators and the Justice Department requesting a probe into the role of Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS.N in ...

The family of a Black man who died while in a Memphis jail on Friday called on authorities to identify the correctional officers involved in the altercation that killed him ...

French fuel supplies could be put at risk again next week following union calls to extend 10 days of strike action at refineries in protest against the government’s move to ...

Security staff at London’s Heathrow Airport voted on Friday to strike for 10 days, trade union Unite said. The walkout, involving over 1,400 staff, will start on March 31 and end on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday called the promotion of Cyprus’ identity and culture “of paramount importance, especially considering the risks posed by the continued occupation of the island.” Reading a ...

Both the growing number of children born out of wedlock and the new national health system Gesy pose challenges to safeguarding and protecting Cyprus’ extremely strong, decades-long national thalassaemia prevention ...

As the Music in the Mountains series continues, more and more local bands, duos and trios perform in Cyprus’ rural villages. Café-bars and restaurants will host some of the ...

Residents in dangerous refugee apartment buildings that will undergo renovation or be completely rebuilt are set to receive a lump sum to pay rent elsewhere, as the state will take ...

British High Commissioner to Cyprus Irfan Siddiq, expressed on Friday the full support of the UK government to the Cypriot President’s initiative for the resumption of negotiations for a ...