The Cypriot junior minister for shipping visited several vessels anchored in Limassol port on Wednesday and gave presents to some 70 crew members, as a token of appreciation for the sacrifices made by seafarers throughout this year. Shipping Deputy Minister Vassilios Demetriades said that Cyprus has always ensured that safety remains a top priority for
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Due to the new COVID strain, Cyprus has banned British travellers by placing the United Kingdom in category C, which means that non-Cypriot visitors are denied entry without a special permit. Asked by the Financial Mirror to confirm that Cyprus has banned Britons, Health Ministry press officer Margarita Kyriacou said: “From the moment that arrivals
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Larnaca District Court on Wednesday found two Cypriot sisters, aged 31 and 38, guilty of a racist attack on a Russian woman over a year ago in a car park and only fined them €750 each. The two women were brought to justice after a 10-minute YouTube video depicted a Russian woman at the centre
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More than 300 passengers arriving from the UK will be in Cyprus quarantine for Christmas to prevent the spread of a virulent new strain of coronavirus found recently in Britain. On Wednesday, Cyprus will receive another eight flights from the UK, two days after the government imposed an obligatory seven-day quarantine for all passengers arriving
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Cyprus will receive its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines on Boxing Day with the vaccination rollout beginning on Sunday. The first batch arriving on Saturday is 8,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. According to the timetable, the vaccines will be delivered weekly and it is estimated that during the first three months of 2021, Cyprus
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Cyprus’ cabinet has approved a bill ratifying the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) statute as an international organisation of which it is a founding member. Energy Minister Natasa Pilides said the mandate of the EMGF is to ensure the optimal use of natural gas in the eastern Mediterranean region. “This is an important development as
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By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM With less than a month to go before he leaves the Oval Office, President Trump caught the markets by surprise threatening not to sign a long-debated Covid-19 relief package which took the Congress several months to agree upon. While he did not say he will veto the
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Cyprus aims to ban the availability of lightweight plastic carrier bags at points of sale as the Cabinet has approved the regulations to be submitted to Parliament. According to an official announcement, the new regulations cover all points of sale, including home delivery. Under the proposed law, consumers have sole responsibility for transporting/carrying the goods
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The Third Age Observatory, an NGO looking out for senior citizens’ rights in Cyprus, has called on the authorities to explain why the four elderly people who were reported on Monday to have died from COVID-19 this month, were not admitted to any hospital. Instead, they were left to be treated by staff at their
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Five people died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, the biggest number in a single day as the death toll passed the 100-mark, justifying the Cyprus government’s decision not to relax health measures during the holidays, despite public discontent. With the number of deaths now at 101, and 402 new coronavirus cases raising the total of all
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