RCB Bank has expanded its card products offering for domestic RCB Classic package customers, by launching a new credit card, the Mastercard Standard. RCB customers in Cyprus now have a choice in selecting the international payment systems card that fits their profile and needs such as Mastercard Standard for their transactions. The card offers additional
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Cyprus confirmed on Monday it will welcome UK tourists from 1 August after placing the country on the safe entry list but in the secondary band where visitors need to provide a negative COVID-19 test. The Health Ministry announced the UK has been placed in category B, a higher risk band of countries than those
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Cyprus is heading into a full-blown summer scorcher as extreme heat is expected to grip the island over the coming days with temperatures peaking at a sweltering 42 degrees Celsius in midweek. Cyprus met office issued another July ‘yellow warning’ on Monday with maximum temperatures expected to reach 41° C. The warning is valid from
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The Cyprus Green Party has elected TEPAK professor and former Environment Commissioner Theopemptou Charalambos as its new leader with all eyes on the race for Aglandjia mayor. He replaced, unopposed, MP George Perdikis who decided to step aside after two decades – on and off – as the head. Academic Theopemptou, widely considered as mild-mannered
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By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Unlike the typical start of a trading week, Monday has kicked off with big market moves. Following six days of steep gains, Gold has finally broken the 2011 record high of $1,921, reaching $1,943. Meanwhile, the Dollar seems to have lost the title “King,” at least for
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While our attention strayed to escalating brinkmanship in the East Med as Turkey plays pirates of the Aegean there was a worrying turn of events closer to home where COVID-19 remains the real enemy. Locally transmitted cases are beginning to pop-up in the community where the source of the infection is unknown. The non-scientific name
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Four new cases of SARS-CoV-2 were reported on Sunday, raising the total number of coronavirus infections in Cyprus to 1,057. However, state health officials have been warning against complacency and insisted that the public maintain simple protocols such as social distancing and wearing protective masks wherever possible, after a worrying number of cases in Limassol
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Turkey and its modern-day Ottoman-style ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan is holding a steady course on its path towards reviving an expansionist plan to reinstate the glory days of a one-time empire. There’s nothing new here, especially if you ask any serious political analyst who has been following Erdogan’s rise to the throne. For years he
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The Daily Mail UK published a most interesting report entitled “Escape”, regarding Britons holidaying in Europe, giving a general picture and price in various favourite European holiday destinations. It reported that the cost of a week’s holiday can be as low as £100 p.p. including the flight cost, which may be hard to believe. The
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Paphos is in for a facelift with its fair share of new developments while getting smarter with digital projects worth tens of millions of euros nearing completion or in the making. Once lagging behind other towns in Cyprus regarding development activity, Paphos is catching up with the construction industry picking up from where it left
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