Authorities are reviewing extra measures to reduce the high death toll on the island’s roads, just hours after two people died in two separate road accidents on Sunday. Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Monday chaired a meeting of the Road Safety Council focused on actions to end the carnage caused by road accidents. This year,
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Despite initial warnings, no major problems were reported due to cyclone Carmel with authorities receiving only a handful of distress calls. The public was alert, with authorities urging people to take measures by storm-proofing their properties; like Carmel, a low-pressure system hit the island on Saturday night. In comments to the Cyprus News Agency, Fire
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By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at Exinity Group Asian equity markets and futures across Europe and the US dropped heavily on the first trading day of the week as surging Omicron Covid-19 cases led to new strict measures in many European nations and threatened to curb year-end celebrations. The Netherlands was first to go
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Health authorities are mulling tightening restrictions to stem coronavirus, boosted by Omicron with higher transmissibility, including a limit on home gatherings and mandatory testing for all. On Monday, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas will meet the team of scientists advising the government on the outbreak to get their recommendations on containing the spread ahead of the
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Cyprus said one person died of coronavirus on Sunday, as new daily cases dropped to 448, while hospitalisations remained at high levels with 175 needing treatment, with authorities worried about new Omicron variants being discovered. So far, 25 of the registered cases were linked to students from a Limassol technical school returning from the U.K.,
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Probably the most exciting gift this Christmas would be to see a British PM having resigned for his taking part in a virtual pub quiz. If botching Brexit and using the British people as an experiment when coronavirus first reached Europe is not going to trip him up, then why not the infamous Downing Street
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We recently read an article published on November 7 in the Financial Mirror (Olivewood trying to reinvent itself) about the Cyprus filming plan, although interesting, was far from the truth. You can dress a pig like a swan and put makeup on it, but it is still a pig. Reference was made to ‘Jiu Jitsu’
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Candidates are gradually surfacing with an interest to run in the next presidential elections. The trouble is that voters will be going to the polls 15 months from now, not next week or next month, judging from the pace of campaigning and rhetoric on posters and in the airwaves. Or is it just a smokescreen
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We are frequently asked around this time of year: is now the right time to sell? An optimal time to sell a property is when there is an increase in demand, record sale prices, low interest rates, and a shortage of properties available for sale on the market. Right now, we are experiencing all of
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Cyprus confirmed two coronavirus deaths on Saturday, and hospitalisations rose as authorities tightened restrictions for travellers from the UK due to the Omicron variant. The health ministry said an 82-year-old woman and a man aged 75 were the latest victims of the pandemic, raising the death toll since March last year to 619, of which
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