Brussels is taking the initiative to end a stalemate in registering Cyprus’ famous traditional cheese as a protected product, with halloumi bogged down in the politics of division. The Financial Mirror was told by a government source the European Commission is stepping up efforts to break the ice between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot
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The writing is on the wall – if Cyprus continues to put all its eggs in one basket and does not diversify its tourism product, it will face the same fate as the ‘golden passports’ scheme, that continues to haunt greedy politicians. Now, Moody’s has given a crystal-clear message – restructure your tourism or you
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I wonder what prospects the real estate market has for 2021. Who can predict with confidence how the market will perform during this year, which will experience all sorts of political and economic situations? The year 2021 will continue to be affected by the pandemic, ever-diminishing government funds, the increase in unemployment, a sharp reduction
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Cyprus reported a lower number of new COVID-19 cases and fewer patients admitted to hospitals on Saturday but there was one more coronavirus death. The Health Ministry said that 193 patients are at the four main hospitals, while the number of new SARS-CoV-2 cases was down from Friday’s 244 to 202. This raised the number
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Cyprus’ flagship halloumi export had its best year in 2020, but demand has crumbled with lockdowns imposed across Europe to combat the second wave of coronavirus crippling the hospitality sector. Dairy farmers in Cyprus have begun to see their produce pile up in warehouses, as they rush to equip their factories with deep freeze refrigerators
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Government COVID-19 lead advisor Dr Constantinos Tsioutis believes the pandemic will not be fully under control this year but exist in a milder form in 2022. The Assistant Professor in Infection Prevention and Control at the European University Cyprus told CNA that duration of immunity COVID-19 vaccines offer is still an unknown. “It has been
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By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos, Ambassador a.h. Undoubtedly, it is time that brings deep changes to developments in countries, leaderships, and goals, creating new geostrategic data which respective governments should consider in formulating their policies. This approach of analysis is dictated by the political doctrine “dans le temps et dans l’espace” (in time and in space).
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Cyprus reported a similar number of new COVID-19 cases and patients admitted to hospitals on Friday as in the past few days, but no coronavirus deaths for more than two weeks. The health ministry said that 200 patients remain admitted at the four main hospitals, two less than Thursday, while the number of new SARS-CoV-2
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A Cyprus Health Ministry official has confirmed that Pfizer-BioNTech will be temporarily reducing deliveries to Europe of its COVID-19 vaccine later this month, but that a final decision will be announced this weekend. Asked if this is expected to affect the Cyprus inoculation programme already underway, the ministry spokesperson said an EU steering committee is
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Turkish Cypriots on Friday launched their vaccination program against COVID-19 after receiving the first 20,000 vaccines from Chinese Pharmaceutical Sinovac. The inoculation process launched with the inoculation of Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tater, the head of the ruling coalition Ersan Saner and health authorities chief Ali Pilli. After receiving the first of his two doses
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