The health ministry on Sunday announced that an 87-year-old man with underlying health conditions had died from Covid-19. The death at the Nicosia general hospital was attributable to coronavirus, it said. The ministry also announced 187 new cases. The total number of deaths attributed to coronavirus is 44, of which...
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides About a month ago we wrote an article about the challenges facing banks today*. In the present article, we will expand on the global trends that banks will be called upon to address. We note that, although Covid-19 poses significant challenges at this stage,...
The British government said on Sunday it was working with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to ease COVID-19 restrictions over Christmas to allow families to get together. Cabinet Minister Michael Gove discussed the issue with the first ministers of the devolved administrations on Saturday, the government said, and they agreed...
Cypriot students on a challenging term back at university By Karim Arnous British universities have enjoyed their fair share of front-page news articles since the start of the pandemic, recently dubbed the ‘care homes of the second wave’ by the Guardian. While a plethora of businesses and industries have been...
UN envoy Jane Holl Lute could be in Cyprus as soon as November 30, reports said on Sunday. A final confirmation is expected, according to CNA, which said the UN envoy was expected between November 30 to December 2. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that Lute had started...
Joe Biden will announce the first of his Cabinet picks on Tuesday, a senior aide said on Sunday, as the projected president-elect moves ahead with planning for his incoming administration while President Donald Trump showed no sign of abandoning his long-shot bid to fight the uncertified polls in a handful...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday he was ready to work with any U.S. leader and would congratulate whoever emerges the winner of the U.S. presidential election once all the legal formalities are settled, Russian news agencies reported. Putin has withheld comment, while President Donald Trump has been taking...
They shouldn’t be in Cyprus, they are challenging to look after, but they are also irresistible Husky fact number 1: They should never have set their paws in a country as hot as Cyprus. Husky fact number 2: They are very good looking and good natured, making them almost impossible...
There are clear parallels between Cyprus now and Greece in 1922, but in Cyprus it was largely reversible When some were saying before the 2004 referendum on the Annan plan that a possible rejection would lead us to a new Asia Minor disaster, they were vilified and accused of spreading...
The Animal Party on Sunday issued a warning about municipalities and communities that were ‘making strenuous efforts” to ban public feeding areas for dogs and cats around the island. The party did not specify which communities those might be. “We call on them, instead of thinking and drawing up negatively...
All the usual caveats apply: don’t go out and celebrate, don’t let your guard down, it’s still going to be a long haul. This winter will be “hard”, warned Uğur Şahin, co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, the German company that announced the first effective Covid-19 vaccine only a week ago....
The Brexit transition period ends on December 31 but too many British residents still need to sort out their residency status Lazy British expats or those with a fear of government offices have been chided by the British High Commission for not getting their residency status sorted before the Brexit...
Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides is set to meet on Monday with Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Ivan Korčok. Talks are expected to focus on bilateral relations, the Cyprus issue and Turkey’s latest provocations in Varosha. They will also discuss current issues on the EU agenda including enlargement, migration, Euro-Turkish...
The logic of the decentralised federation is reminiscent of the song of the sirens One of the basic reasons that has led the Cyprus problem into the deadlock that we are currently experiencing is the inclination of the Greek Cypriot leadership to seek comparative advantages over “the other side”,...
Ayia Napa municipality has suspended all services, including its sewerage board, after two confirmed cases of Covid-19 were detected among employees at the town hall. The municipality said in an announcement on Sunday that it was following all health guidelines and would let the public know when it would reopen.
Three minors on a joyride in Larnaca in the early hours of Sunday crashed into two parked cars and the fence around a house, police said. The trio left the car at the scene and fled just after midnight. Police tracked the abandoned car back to the father of one...
Two infants are being treated at Makarios Hospital in Nicosia for coronavirus, reports said on Sunday. According to Cybc, a 10-month-old boy from Limassol who displayed Covid symptoms was transferred from Limassol hospital to Makarios on Saturday. His condition is said to be not serious. The second baby being treated...
Apple said on Wednesday it plans to start a program to lower its App Store commissions for software developers who make $1 million or less in proceeds each year from the store, but some of the company’s critics called the move “window dressing.” Apple takes a 30 per cent cut...
Swiss doctors have urged those vulnerable to COVID-19 complications to record their wishes for end-of-life care in advance to help ease pressure on intensive care units, drawing criticism from an advocacy group. Pro Senectute Schweiz, an organisation for the elderly, said the doctors’ appeal was premature and excessive but medics...
Limassol police broke up an anti-lockdown protest on Anexartisias Street on Saturday evening before it got underway, they said. Five people were arrested for various offences. Dozens of officers with anti-riot equipment gathered after receiving information that a demonstration would be taking place outside the district administration offices. At around...
Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that a forensic audit of the central bank was vital to combat corruption and that he would put it back on track following the withdrawal of the consultancy currently hired to do the audit. Aoun said “interest-driven roadblocks” had derailed the audit, which...
After a scathing court setback in Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump faces increased pressure from his fellow Republicans to drop his effort to overturn the U.S. presidential election and concede to Democrat Joe Biden. Since Biden was declared the projected winner by the media two weeks ago, before full state certifications,...
“They shut us down. Larnaca is full of cases. They shut us down. We have no revenue,” complains Limassol Nags Head Pub owner Kypros Kyprianou. “People have a desire to adhere to the rules but this is ridiculous. They mock us. This is unfair,” Kyprianou added. With the recent implementation...
The Cyprus Mail – the island’s oldest newspaper – celebrated its 75th anniversary on November 2, 2020. To mark this milestone birthday, the Cyprus Mail has produced a 160-page, hard-backed book Cyprus Mail: 75 Years which will be available with the print issue of the Sunday Mail on November 29....
The Pentakomo waste treatment plant has been a fiasco A litany of incompetence by technocrats and politicians, and dubious decision-making, has led to a major waste management fiasco that raises the risk of the EU demanding the return of tens of millions of euro it provided for a project...
