Cyprus on Saturday requested emergency assistance from Israel and the European Union to help contain a large bush fire raging out of control in the rural hinterland, said Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides. Several villages have been evacuated and property destroyed by a wildfire that started in the Limassol district village of Arakapa and spreading toward
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Historically, at this stage of a tournament, England football fans are usually drowning their sorrows in what might have been, as the Three Lions disappoint again. But manager Gareth Southgate has created a new hybrid; a durable, confident team that sometimes wins a penalty shootout. The nation has fallen in love with the England team
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Demetra Kalogerou, the current chairperson of CySEC, is due to leave her post in September after ten years in office. Within months after taking over at the helm of the country’s top financial watchdog, she faced enormous challenges on nearly every front. The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission was severely understaffed, while the banking sector
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There is an evident effort to upgrade the quality of local hotels and entertainment places, both in terms of building and service quality; we now note the Tourism Ministry is encouraging organised camping. The proposal indicates these campsites should be set up in wooded areas or ones especially created. These campsites, mind you, place several
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Cyprus reported a new week-high of 529 new coronavirus cases on Friday, as the Cabinet met to agree on new measures amid failing efforts to control the spread of the virus. The health ministry said in its daily Covid-report that 45,212 PCR and antigen rapid tests were conducted, diagnosing an increase of 55 cases from
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President Nicos Anastasiades gave an overdue apology on Friday for his government’s mistakes and shortcomings in handling the disgraced Cyprus passports for investment scheme. Speaking at the swearing-in of the new cabinet members, Anastasiades said he would not shirk his responsibility, despite an inquiry finding no proof of corruption by the cabinet or himself. He
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Cypriot GDP is projected to recover by 3.8% in 2021, following a contraction of 5.1% last year, according to the Cyprus Central Bank’s economic bulletin. In 2022 and 2023, GDP is expected to grow by 3.1% and 2.5%, respectively, marginally lower than the previous forecasts in December 2020. The CBC said the first quarter of
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Two sisters captured on video verbally abusing a Russian woman in a Larnaca parking lot in October 2019 have received suspended two-month prison terms and €3,000 fines by the Supreme Court. Last year, a Larnaca District Court found the two Cypriot sisters, now aged 32 and 39, guilty of a racist attack but only fined
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The average age of new COVID-19 cases has fallen to 23 for the first time since start of the pandemic, as the recent spike in infections pushes Cyprus back into the high-risk ‘red’ category of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The mean age of new cases was 30 years according to
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The Cabinet convenes Friday to decide on how to encourage younger people to get a COVID-19 jab as a new outbreak is spreading among those who are unvaccinated. A new COVID-19 wave is driven by the Delta variant, where most cases are unvaccinated. Scientists sounded the alarm as Cyprus’ epidemiological picture has worsened in the
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