The Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) has been going for 24 years now but, it was widely ignored because nobody was interested in technology and innovation. Now, with a Deputy Ministry for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, leading the way, the RIF will have a bigger role to play. When...
The health ministry on Sunday announced seven new coronavirus cases, bringing the total up to 1,339. The new cases are a result of 2,475 tests. Specifically, three cases were found as part of checks on travellers and repatriates, two cases found in Larnaca from random sampling, one case as part...
There is no respite from the heat in Cyprus as the met office issued a yellow weather warning for Monday due to extreme temperatures. Inlands, the temperature is expected to reach 40C and 32C in the mountains, on Monday. The temperature in south, east and north coasts is expected to...
A small grocery store was broken into on Sunday in the Paphos village of Giolou. According to police the alarm sounded at lunchtime and the 84-year-old owner ran to see what happened. She saw the thief trying to unplug the TV and run away, carrying a host of other items...
Famagusta hotels that reopened were about 70 per cent full over the August 15 weekend, chairman of the Cyprus hotel association (Pasyxe) district branch Doros Takkas said on Sunday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said about 30 per cent of hotels had chosen to open due to the...
Visitors from Cyprus will have to quarantine for 14 days if travelling to Estonia following a revised list of passenger requirements starting this Monday. According to the Estonian foreign ministry, countries with a coronavirus infection rate above 16, individuals will have a mandatory two-week restriction on freedom of movement irrespective...
Telephone lines between the United Arab Emirates and Israel were open on Sunday in a development the Israeli communications minister hailed as important for normalising ties between the countries. Israel and the UAE on Thursday announced an agreement that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations between the...
By Alper Ali Riza As it is the silly season I shall ignore the dark clouds of war on the horizon and bury my head in the sand like the proverbial ostrich and wait for events before saying anything other than I told you so a long time ago. It...
Works to create a contested traffic island on Nicos and Despinas Pattichi street in Limassol are set to begin on Monday, with residents and business owners in the area ready to protest first thing in the morning. The protest is set to begin at 7:30am while police is expected to...
Russia said on Sunday it had told Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko it was ready to offer military assistance if necessary as demonstrators gathered for one of the biggest protests against Lukashenko’s contested re-election yet. A least two protesters have been killed and thousands have been detained since last Sunday’s vote,...
A two-year-old boy was being treated at the Makario hospital in Nicosia on Sunday after he was bitten by a snake. The boy was bitten on Saturday when he was in the back yard of his home in a village just outside Limassol. According to CNA, it is possible the...
The Turkish foreign ministry condemned the defence cooperation agreement between Cyprus and France, calling on France to act more responsibly. In a statement published on Saturday by foreign affairs spokesman Hami Aksoy, referring to Cyprus as the Greek Cypriot Administration, said it “does not represent the Turkish Cypriots and the...
Police booked 25 people for not wearing a mask in the span of 24 hours between Saturday and Sunday 6am. According to CNA, of the 25 people reported, 13 were members of the public and 12 were employees in jobs where wearing masks is mandatory. In total, 842 inspections were...
Two teenage boys were praised on Sunday after they found a woman’s purse on the floor with €1500 in cash and took it to police. According to a police bulletin, the two young men aged 17 and 18 found the purse in the early hours of Sunday morning at a...
By George Koumoullis THE PRE-ELECTION climate that will soon fall upon us is a gloomy time for voters who do not belong to any political party. They are mainly the people that realise the only path to achieving, at long last, a settlement of the Cyprus problem is the bizonal,...
Cyprus on Sunday issued an anti-Navtex as a response to Turkey’s own maritime notice a day earlier for exploration inside Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Turkey’s Navtex covers Cyprus’ Block 6 and specified the Yavuz drillship will be in the area southwest of the island until September 15. In its...
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale and Cyprus Minister of Foreign Affairs Nckos Christodoulides have expressed continued support for UN Security Council resolutions on Famagusta, while Hale also affirmed America’s support for the UN-facilitated process to reach a Cyprus solution, during a meeting they had on...
By Christos P Panayiotides We often hear the small opposition parties advocating that the Cyprus problem should be refocussed as one of invasion and occupation. This advice is directly linked to their assessment that this would lead to the resolution of the Cyprus problem in a manner to satisfy Greek...
The political vacuum created in Lebanon due to the government’s resignation needs to be filled rapidly, but the chances of that are slim, credit rating agency Moody’s wrote in a note published on Wednesday. The country needs a technocratic government, and it needs one fast, Moody’s says. With 60 per...
A consortium including some of the largest international producers of bottled drinks – Unilever, Diageo and Pepsico – is ready to replace glass drinks bottles with paper ones. These companies, which together represent more than $100 billion in global beverage sales, have joined with Pulpex Limited, a new world-leading sustainable...
Project will allow expats to stay in Cyprus as they age and become less independent By Bejay Browne Construction of the first purpose-built retirement village in Cyprus is due to get underway in Tsada, Paphos next year. The much-anticipated project is already garnering a huge amount of interest with the...
