The election of hardliner Ersin Tatar as the new Turkish Cypriot leader has sparked a public debate over whether peace talks in Cyprus based on a bizonal, bicommunal, federal solution are dead in the water. Newly elected Tatar has sent out the message that he is willing to meet President Nicos Anastasiades but did not
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Fury over the education ministry’s appointment of a male-dominated advisory council to set up a junior ministry for culture took the argument in the wrong direction. It drifted exactly where the administration and the ruling party wanted it to go, as far away from criticism of creating yet another redundant state entity. The debate also
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Stock markets are already pricing-in a Biden win in the U.S. presidential election in ten days – and, against conventional wisdom, a Democrat victory will be welcomed by investors, according to Nigel Green, CEO of the financial advisory and fintech deVere Group. As President Trump and Joe Biden faced off in their final 2020 presidential
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By Yiannis Kitromilides Once upon a time, a magic money tree was discovered that instead of leaves had money on its branches. People could just pick up the money from the tree and spend it without worrying that the money would ever run out because the tree created new ‘money-leaves’ all the time. Sadly, the
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Health authorities on Friday reported another 160 new cases of COVID-19, as Cyprus struggles to control a much larger second wave of coronavirus. Friday’s figures are the third highest reported since the beginning of the outbreak in early March after last Saturday’s 202 cases and Thursday’s 188. This is the fourth day in a row
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Epidemiologists are anxious over cases found at hospitals with five major clinics reporting COVID-19 infections among their staff, as Cyprus continues to report triple-digit figures daily. In comments to the Cyprus News Agency, Virologist and Health Ministry advisor on COVID, Peter Karayiannis said cases found at five of the country’s largest private clinics can facilitate
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Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou refuted accusations of a mother claiming that authorities did not act promptly to inform the family that her son was found positive for coronavirus. He said the Ministry takes action once it is informed of the results by the lab who carried out the tests. The woman told Sigma TV on
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Cyprus’ epidemiological picture has deteriorated with the COVID-19 transmission rate rising dangerously between 1.5-2, as authorities strive to tackle a huge spike in cases that peaked at 202. According to the latest Health Ministry report released on Friday, the reproduction rate R(t) stood between 1.4 and 2.6 according to four models produced by its epidemiological
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By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM Equities are stuck in limbo, as investors continue monitoring the status of the next round of US fiscal stimulus, while the final presidential TV debate before election day passed with little immediate sway on financial markets. Asian benchmark indices were mixed and US equity futures were little changed
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As coronavirus spreads in Cyprus with COVID-19 cases in October spiralling, clinics, private hospitals, universities, and hotels have all been struck during this second outbreak, the Health Ministry said Friday. According to the Health Ministry, five major clinics and one private practice have reported COVID-19 cases, four of which are in Limassol, two in Nicosia
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