Ravi Bangar, India’s High Commissioner to Cyprus from 2013 to 2017, died unexpectedly recently, having served in the country’s foreign ministry and diplomatic corps for nearly 38 years. He was 61. After
Cyprus Central Bank governor Constantinos Herodotou on Friday warned MPs against tampering with the foreclosures law which could lead to further delays in banks tackling toxic mortgages. Herodotou urged MPs to focus
Turkish Cypriot authorities introduced a harsh lockdown across the Turkish occupied north on Friday, after a record 80 COVID-19 cases the day before, the third successive high. Authorities in the north reported
Inflation in Cyprus continued to drop in January with the Consumer Price Index decreasing to -1.6% on the year before as energy bills dropped. In January the CPI fell by 1.06 units
Four elderly men and a woman died of COVID-19 on Thursday, raising the February death toll to nine and 208 since the pandemic started, just as lockdown measures were being relaxed and
During the pandemic, Cyprus received more than 7,000 applications from asylum seekers last year with Syrians making up a quarter of the total, said Interior Minister Nicos Nouris. He held a video
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Thursday pledged Britain would play a decisive role in ending decades-long division in Cyprus urging all parties to make progress at a United Nations summit. “We
Archbishop Chrysostomos II has denied demolishing four listed buildings surrounding the site of a new cathedral under construction in Nicosia which caused a public outcry. According to letters sent to Nicosia Mayor,
Unlike several EU counterparts, Cyprus will use the AstraZeneca vaccine, once receiving it, on the general population including those aged 65 and above. Assistant Professor in Pharmacology, University of Nicosia Medical School,
Cyprus, next week, will send about 4 – 8% of its positive coronavirus samples to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for COVID-19 variant screening, the Health Ministry said.
