With domestic violence incidents spiking 55%, Cyprus police are improving efforts to support women who are victims of abuse by establishing another task force in Paphos next month. The Association for the Prevention of Domestic Violence (SPAVO) has welcomed Cyprus police announcement establishing a special unit to handle cases of domestic violence in Paphos as
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Cyprus received another blow to its tarnished reputation as it dropped one notch to 42nd in Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) on Thursday. The news comes as government and senior politicians are accused of graft in relation to the country’s discredited golden passport scheme with President Nicos Anastasiades to address the nation Thursday
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Wizz Air announced three new destinations from Cyprus to Oslo, Tel Aviv and Kharkiv starting from March while allocating a third aircraft to its Larnaca base. Besides the new routes, Wizz will increase the frequency of its Larnaca-Wroclaw route. Seats for the new routes can are on sale wizzair.com or on the airline’s mobile app
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Cyprus is launching schemes in a bid to meet its EU 2030 environmental targets set in its national Climate Plan 2021-2030 which includes subsidies for making homes more energy-efficient. The EU has committed itself to a clean energy transition, which will contribute to fulfilling the Paris Agreement targets on climate change and provide clean energy
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Cyprus has been more successful than most countries in tackling the pandemic coming fifth in a global COVID Performance Index of 98 nations. It is the highest-ranked European country and was only outperformed by top-place New Zealand, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Thailand based on six criteria, including confirmed cases, deaths and testing metrics. Sydney-based Lowy Institute
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Washington is looking at ways of speeding up procedures to supply Cyprus with non-lethal weapons after the lifting of a US arms embargo last year. Cyprus Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides and US Ambassador Judith Garber discussed on Wednesday possible ways of expediting actions for the sales of non-lethal equipment from US companies. The United States
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By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM The S&P 500 fell 2.57% on Wednesday, its biggest single-day drop since October, as the benchmark index wiped out its year-to-date gains. Spot Gold is back trading below its 200-day simple moving average and even Bitcoin extended its descent towards the psychologically important $30,000 mark after shedding over
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Cyprus will double its daily antigen rapid tests as of Thursday, to check a significant number of the workforce that will return after the end of the second lockdown period on January 31. Authorities will allow hairdressers and beauty salons to reopen from Monday February 1, up to 50% of staff can return to work
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By Pavlos Loizou The Covid-19 crisis did not start as a financial crisis, but it is morphing into one—and a global one at that. The headlines of 2020 have been dominated by news of the pandemic’s spread, record-shattering falls in output, and surges in poverty and the newly unemployed (this is not so evident, as
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Cyprus reported three more coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, pushing the January total to 70, closing in fast on December’s record 76, as the government decided to relax some lockdown restrictions in place until the end of the month. From February 1, Cyprus will allow gradual relaxation of lockdown measures following a fall in COVID-19 infections,
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