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COVID19: Cyprus opens up to 16 countries

Cyprus has reassessed its colour-coded COVID-19 safe travel risk, downgrading Ireland back to the red category while opening up to 16 other countries, including the UK, Russia, and Israel. Based on Cyprus’

29th March 2021

Cyprus/Life & Society

Fitch cites public debt, weak banking sector

Fitch rating agency affirmed Cyprus’ long-term sovereign rating at “BBB-” with a stable outlook, citing high sovereign debt and a weak banking sector as the main challenges facing the economy. It said

29th March 2021

Business

Turkish Cypriots say no to Cyprus reunification

Turkish Cypriots stand firm on their insistence for a two-state solution on Cyprus as an UN-led conference to resume moribund talks looms in Geneva. Tahsin Ertugruloglu, foreign minister of the breakaway, occupied

29th March 2021

Cyprus

Political snakes and ladders

It shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone that the President’s approval ratings have slid down the popularity ladder faster than a snake sheds its skin. Asking Cypriots what they think about

29th March 2021

Comment/Cyprus

Saving trees goes beyond planting them

To celebrate the Day of the Tree, the government provided small trees to the public free of charge to encourage tree planting. The public responded, and out of the 300,000 saplings on

28th March 2021

Comment/Life & Society

Energy wealth is for sharing

When news first broke 11 years ago about potential natural gas reservoirs lying offshore Cyprus, everybody jumped for joy, as if we had struck ‘black gold’, the energy commodity was ready to

28th March 2021

Editorial/Energy

COVID19: Cyprus deaths reach 250, cases surpass 44,300

There were two Cyprus COVID-19 deaths recorded on Saturday, taking the total since the pandemic last year to 250, while total infections surpassed 44,300 as authorities grapple with a second wave. In

27th March 2021

Cyprus

Barren summer for Cyprus tourism

As Cyprus gears up to welcome tourists back, news from the island’s biggest market, the UK, where authorities have told Britons they might not be able to travel this summer, has stakeholders

27th March 2021

Cyprus/Life & Society

Placing Cyprus on world innovation map

By Demetra Molyva Cyprus Seeds is a pioneering, non-profit organisation based in Nicosia. Its mission is to assist the commercialisation of innovative research from Cypriot universities and place Cyprus on the world map of

27th March 2021

Business/Comment

COVID19: New Cyprus cases stabilise, but still high

The number of daily coronavirus cases in Cyprus and hospital admissions seems to be stabilising after weeks of worrying increases, but Limassol is still fuelling the spread. On Friday, the Health Ministry

26th March 2021

Cyprus