After lifting its ban on commercial flights on June 9, Cyprus detected its first case of COVID-19 from a repatriate arriving the day before from Bulgaria, a country ranked as low risk, health authorities said Wednesday. According to the Health Ministry, the positive case was among 474 tests on passengers and repatriations. “This is a
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Unaccompanied children deemed at risk at a Cyprus migrant reception centre have been removed while the UNHCR will give evidence to police on sexual harassment claims. Police are investigating allegations that young girls were sexually harassed at the Pournara camp outside Nicosia. “The identity of the children have been disclosed to the police, thus enabling
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President Nicos Anastasiades has increased his women ministers in a mini-cabinet reshuffle after appointing lawyer Emily Yiolitis as the new Justice Minister, Natasa Pilides takes over the key Energy Ministry. The mini reshuffle comes after the unexpected move to appoint two of his ministers as attorney general and deputy attorney general, and the long-signalled departure
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Wizz Air, Europe’s fastest-growing airline announced Wednesday the allocation of a third aircraft to its Larnaca base allowing it to offer 36 destinations from Cyprus. The new Airbus A320 will join the fleet on 1 August, enabling the start of five new routes from Larnaca to Paris Beauvais (France), Eindhoven (Holland), Prague (Czech Republic), Gdansk
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Cyprus nurses called off a 24-hour strike scheduled for Wednesday after they reached an initial agreement with the state health services organisation (OKYPY) for the hiring of 305 additional nursing staff. The strike was averted following a last-minute push to prevent nurses from going on strike with OKYPY reworking its proposal on hiring new staff
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Only a tenth of Cyprus’ 700 hotel units has bothered operating after the lockdown was lifted as tourists are thin on the ground, according to the Deputy Ministry of Tourism. This number is not expected to increase any time soon, as hoteliers are contemplating whether it would even be worth their while opening before August.
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Famagusta could have its first golf course within three years, as the €100 mln Ayia Napa Forest Golf project is expected to get the green light from environmental authorities after being rejected four times over eco concerns. Local hoteliers behind the venture feel they are closer than ever as reports say environmental authorities have no
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Cyprus reported two new coronavirus cases on Tuesday in hospital admittance checks, bringing the total to just 10 shy of 1000 infections since the outbreak. According to the Health Ministry, the two positive cases were detected among 1,067 tests conducted. The two new COVID-19 cases were traced from some 172 tests carried out on people
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A majority of Cyprus MPs expressed their willingness to approve the EastMed gas pipeline agreement signed with Israel and Greece. They reviewed the political and legal framework of the EastMed Agreement, an ambitious plan to build a €7 bln pipeline to mainland Europe. The EastMed Agreement was signed on January 2, in Athens, between the
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The Interior Ministry announced that it has set up a committee to examine requests for special permission to enter Cyprus from countries not on the coronavirus data approved list. These relate to the following cases: (1) first degree relatives of people residing legally in the Republic and/or economically active (wife, children, parents) for family reunion
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