Air travel a delight in post corona world
On entry into the Larnaca Airport on Thursday night at 8.30pm, a young Hermes woman sitting behind a cardboard stall, politely told me to put...
Kyriacos Iacovides
New stimulus package could fall flat
Businesses balk at renewing job incentives, fear it would only delay, not stop likely layoffs By Kyriacos Iacovides UNCERTAINTY surrounds the latest package of measures...
UN official ‘mishandled’ crossing point dispute
Government takes Elizabeth Spehar to task over lack of objectivity By Kyriacos Iacovides ELIZABETH Spehar, the UN special representative, mishandled the issue of the crossing...
Shows we love: The Wire
Having watched all five seasons of HBO series The Wire twice I feel that enough years have now passed to justify a third viewing. I...
Outrage over reduced fees threatens Gesy inpatient care
Private hospitals say they cannot offer services at the new rates The start of the second phase of Gesy, scheduled for June 1, hangs in...
Coronavirus: ‘safe’ opening up baffles business community
THE government’s apparent unquestioning deference to scientists when it comes to the issue of reopening the economy is baffling many in the business community as...
Coronavirus: user-friendly e-government has arrived
After years of delays, some vital government services have been transformed within weeks E-GOVERNMENT has been given a big boost by the coronavirus, with...
Coronavirus: Cyprus will have to raise its own funds to cover economic measures
Cyprus would have to rely on itself for raising funds for its economic measures as the Eurogroup meeting that concluded on Thursday night decided to...
Shop owners appeal to church to show virus-era generosity over rents
Povek, the association representing small businesses, has written to Archbishop Chrysostomos asking him to drastically cut the rents charged for all church-owned shops. In a...
State contribution to Gesy reduces fiscal surplus in 2019
The state’s contribution to the national health scheme Gesy was the main reason for the 33 per cent smaller fiscal surplus in 2019 compared to...
Coronavirus: economy could contract by 5 per cent this year, Petrides says
The economy was heading for recession and could contract by 5 per cent this year said finance minister Constantinos Petrides on Tuesday. Speaking on CyBC’s...
Emergency aid package a race against time
Success of emergency package will depend on how long lockdown lasts By Kyriacos Iacovides Cyprus is better placed than some fellow EU states to support...
Coronavirus: Hotel quarantine: ‘so far everything going well’
Quarantining hundreds of repatriated Cypriots got off to a rocky start up in the mountains last week with reports of people sleeping four to a...
Coronavirus: Bank of Cyprus welcomes virus loan relief but only for ‘healthy organisations’
The Bank of Cyprus has welcomed the central bank’s decision to relax requirements for giving loans saying it was a “first step for supporting the...
Coronavirus: Attendance at Sunday church service plummets
FEW churchgoers appeared to attend the weekly service on Sunday, making police action to enforce the government decree limiting indoor public gatherings to 75 people...
House president defends MP ethic plan: it’s not ‘the Syllouris code’
ALTHOUGH mocked and ridiculed by the media for the code of ethics for deputies presented a couple of weeks ago, House president Demetris Syllouris has...
‘No plot to prevent PEPs list being published’
President of the House of Representatives Demetris Syllouris has questioned the fuss made by the media and some deputies about the lists of politically exposed...
Cyprus prepares for new world order: negative interest rates
From March 3, corporate customers will pay for their cash deposits By Kyriacos Iacovides NEGATIVE interest rates by which a bank charges for cash...
China’s global success story achieved through hard work
THE WORST advertisement for communism, undoubtedly, was the Soviet Union’s dysfunctional economic system, which apart from offering the very basics for subsistence to its citizens...
Government blunders threaten halloumi production, producers say
The steps the government has taken to protect Cyprus’ halloumi industry are impossible to follow say cheese producers European Commission approval of Cyprus’ application to...
