Cyprus post supports children’s contact with Santa
Cyprus post will bring children in contact with Santa Claus for another year this Christmas. Continuing the Post2Santa tradition, the postal services will deliver children’s...
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EAC promotes Christmas anti-cancer charity
This year’s Christmas campaign promoted by the Anti-Cancer Society, in cooperation with the electricity authority (EAC) is inviting people to gift a Christmas ‘candle’ to...
Energy crisis dims festive sparkle in Europe’s shops
Retailers in Europe are having to strike a delicate balancing act with this year’s Christmas displays: how to create enough festive sparkle to loosen cash-strapped...
Energy crisis threatens municipal Christmas decorations
Municipalities have asked the finance minister to boost their state grants amid surging energy costs, with local authorities warning that some are on the verge...
Hotel occupancies a disappointing 50 per cent over the holidays
Hotel occupancies over the three-day Christmas and New Year weekends were around 50 per cent, director of the Cyprus Hotels Association (Pasyxe) Philokypros Rousounides told...
In Christmas message, Archbishop tells faithful not to forget their fighting spirit
In his Christmas message, Archbishop Chrysostomos called on the faithful not to forget their fighting spirit because the “behaviour of the invader” does not allow...
Batman Arkham Origins: the definitive Christmas game
Batman: Arkham Origins is considered by many gamers to be the definitive Christmas game, although, like the 1998 action classic Die Hard, it did not...
Covid taints Christmas for second year
It’s not a lockdown this year, but the spread of Omicron has scuppered many family festive reunions As people are forced to spend yet another...
Kadis says food supply and quality assured after checks
Consumers should feel safe in making their purchases from approved outlets, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Thursday after visiting supermarkets in Nicosia as part...
‘Twas the night before Christmas’ helped make the modern Santa
Melissa Chim, General Theological Seminary The poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known by its opening line “‘Twas the Night before Christmas,” has a...
