Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades is in Bahrain on an official visit to sign an MoU on Financial and Technical Cooperation and a Visa Waiver Agreement. At Bahrain International Airport, on Sunday, the President was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani. President Anastasiades is accompanied by Foreign Minister Nikos
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George Theocharides, the current Vice-Chairman, is expected to succeed Demetra Kalogerou this week to head the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission. Theocharides’ appointment as Chairman was locked almost a year ago when he agreed to serve first as a Vice-Chairman for 14 months alongside Kalogerou, whose term ends on September 14 after serving two terms.
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Cyprus reported no coronavirus deaths for the first time in 18 days, with new cases dropping to 100, while hospitalisations rose slightly to 112, keeping the transmission rate relatively low. The health ministry said in its daily Covid bulletin that there were no deaths directly attributed to Covid-19 during the past 24 hours, with zero
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Any student of history will know that trying to suppress ideas, thoughts, or critical discussion is a perilous journey many have travelled on with varying degrees of success. Brutal repression can only go so far. The wall of resistance or rebellion may take decades or centuries to build, but that day will come like a
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Cyprus’ audiovisual industry, dubbed Olivewood, has tarnished its reputation, as producers of a Hollywood production take the government to court for not fulfilling its €8.5 mln rebate obligations. Hollywood producers of Jiu Jitsu filmed entirely in Cyprus in 2019, starring Oscar winner Nicolas Cage, are to sue the Cyprus Republic for not keeping its end
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Schools opened this week with gymnasium and lyceum students in class for the new academic year, as elementaries open on Monday, with traffic reaching its peak as everyone rushes to beat the bell. In any other country, this may not be a problem, but in Cyprus, it is exacerbated by the fact that schools start
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Cyprus reported its lowest daily COVID-19 case rate of 136 since mid-June, although one more death was recorded, the 15th this week, raising the September death toll to 25. Daily infections have not been this low since June 22, when Cyprus began recording three-digit cases. The number of hospitalisations continued to drop to 106 from
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On 15 July, I had posed the question “A Truth Commission for Cyprus?” But, unfortunately, not much discussion was generated, and obviously, no answer was given. Things have perhaps now changed since the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) judgment in the case of Vassiliou a.o. v Cyprus on 31 August 2021, Application no. 58699/15.
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Cyprus’ hospitality sector is experiencing rising worker shortages, with job vacancies at their highest in recent years, forcing establishments to reduce operations. A leading business lobby group has warned the government that it could take two years to resolve without addressing the issue, damaging the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The Cyprus Franchisee Association,
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We heard the Limassol Mayor announcing the municipality’s initiative to construct over 600 housing units to alleviate the shortage of housing units, thus helping reduce the sales prices/rental levels. He stated the municipality would go into “partnership” with the Governmental body of LDC (Land Development Corp). He expects this joint venture will provide housing units
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