A doctor in Cyprus registered with the General Health System will be prosecuted for filing payment requests for services he never provided, Attorney General George Savvides said on Wednesday. In a statement to the press, the AG said that following a police investigation into the doctor’s logs, evidence emerged warranting the doctor’s prosecution. The police
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One person was reportedly apprehended Wednesday and a manhunt is underway in the occupied north to find the killers of Turkish Cypriot casino owner and alleged mob boss, Halil Falyali. Falyali, 64, a former bodyguard turned casino boss who gained massive wealth through gaming and virtual betting, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting outside
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Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, the decade’s hottest emerging asset class, will become a standard feature of investment portfolios within five years, according to Nigel Green, CEO of a leading financial advisory and fintech. “Over the last year, the NFTs market has exploded, with a digital-only piece of art selling for $69 mln in 2021. Since then,
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Cyprus’ second largest dam, Asprokremmos in Paphos, overflowed for the eighth time since built in 1982, as stormy weather swept across the island Wednesday. According to the Water Department, the overflow began in the early hours of Wednesday and is expected to escalate in the coming days as more rain is forecast. With a capacity
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Some 15% of state revenue from the soon-to-be operational new casino resort will help build affordable government housing. The Cyprus Land Development Corporation’s 2022 budget will rise to €11.6 mln from about €3 mln in 2021 to build more than 800 housing units, to be allocated either through affordable housing or through the new affordable rent plan for low-income
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One in four Cypriots will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime, while 42 new cases of cancer and leukaemia in children aged 0-19 are diagnosed annually. Figures were unveiled during a press conference on World Cancer Day and International Childhood Cancer Day. It was organised by the State Health Services Organisation (Okypy), which
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Motor vehicle sales began the new year with a sharp annual decline as total registrations in January dipped 23.3% to 2,633, the Cyprus Statistical Service said. Passenger saloon cars, which represent the bulk of the motor vehicles sales, dropped to 2,147 from 2,732 in January 2021, recording a fall of 21.4% year on year. Of
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The European Union’s drug regulator launched a review to evaluate whether the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine can be used as a booster shot in adolescents aged 12 to 15, even after several countries have already started such a campaign. In its statement on Tuesday, the European Medicines Agency said that a review of booster shots given to
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The Auditor-General (AG) took the unprecedented step of issuing a statement, more or less proclaiming the delayed LNG import project risks becoming the victim of ‘blackmail’. The AG’s comments are very serious and damning. I hope they are not pushed aside…again. I raised similar problems long before the contract was signed on 13 December 2019.
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Cyprus reported seven coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, the second highest daily toll in two weeks, with a drop in daily cases below the 3,000 mark to 2,885, and hospitalisations also down from 233 to 206, of whom 48 were critical. The health ministry said in its Covid bulletin that the latest victims were seven men
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