The government is looking at ways of bolstering vaccination coverage with a booster shot for COVID-19, contemplating cancelling the Safe Pass for people who don’t get the third jab. The government is also said to be considering more restrictions for schools and social gatherings such as weddings and christenings. With daily cases nearing 400, and
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The first Griffon vultures from Spain will soon arrive on the island to save the extremely diminished Cypriot population, conservation group BirdLife Cyprus said. In total, about 25 griffon vultures will be brought to the island from Spain in the context of a four-year “LIFE with Vultures” project 2019-2023. “There is an effort to tackle
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Paphos air connectivity to Athens will be significantly boosted over the holiday season, as TUS Airways announced it would be adding two flights a week to the Greek capital. From 10 December until 9 January, TUS Airways will add eight flights, testing the Athens connection’s viability. Cypriot airline TUS has committed that it will become
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Moody’s has deemed the latest Bank of Cyprus transaction to offload nonperforming loans and a property portfolio worth €700 mln as credit positive for the group’s balance sheet. It said the transaction, termed Helix 3, and part of the bank’s balance sheet de-risking efforts, will reduce Bank of Cyprus’ stock of legacy nonperforming exposures (NPEs)
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With the economy taking a hit due to the coronavirus pandemic, most central banks around the world resorted to enacting various quantitative easing (QE) measures to salvage the situation. However, leading economies used the measure to pump historic amounts of money into their crashing economies, according to research. Data acquired by the financial news platform
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Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis attended Wednesday the first-ever production of the traditional Cypriot halloumi cheese bearing the EU product of protected designation of origin (PDO) certificate. The first badge of halloumi bearing the PDO certificate was produced at the “SOMIS Dairy Industry” in Frenaros, Famagusta. Kadis told reporters: “Today is a day of great satisfaction
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Cyprus reported no coronavirus deaths for the fifth day in a row on Wednesday and the thirteenth this month, as the number of new daily cases continued to remain above 300, dropping slightly to 346, with fewer hospitalisations at 81. The Health Ministry said in its daily Covid bulletin that the death toll since the
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The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) rose by an annual 4.4% in October, following an upward trajectory for the eighth consecutive month triggered mainly by energy prices. According to data released by the Statistical Service (Cysat), compared with September, the HICP rose by 0.9% compared with a reduction of 0.5% in the previous month.
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Every 27 hours in Cyprus, a child falls victim to sexual abuse, according to the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child, Despo Michaelidou. She cited reports from the “Hope For Children” CRC Policy Centre, an International Humanitarian and Independent Institution based in Nicosia. In a statement on the occasion of the European Day for
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Main opposition party, AKEL, is unhappy the legal services dropped all charges against three individuals arrested in connection with an alleged Israeli ‘spy van’ equipped with sophisticated surveillance technology. The Attorney General’s office said it had no comment to make on the case. “The Law Office of the Republic shall make no comment nor respond
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