The woman who was riding on the back of a quadbike which crashed in Peyia is hospitalised and out of danger on Tuesday. The driver of the quad bike, Iuliia Viacheslavovna Kovalchukova, 49 years old from Russia and a resident of Paphos, died on Sunday. An autopsy confirmed the death was caused by multiple injuries […]
A sixty-one-year-old tourist was injured on Monday while visiting of the Avakas gorge in Paphos. According to the police the incident was reported by the woman’s 57-year-old hiking companion who contacted the Peyia police station around 2.15pm saying his 69-year-old had lost her balance and fallen on rocks and was unable to move. Officers from […]
Tuesday will be hot and mostly clear with increased afternoon clouds in the mountains. Temperatures will rise to 38C in the interior, 30C on the west coast, 32C on the remaining coasts, and 28C in the higher mountains. Winds will initially be south-easterly to south-westerly and locally variable, light, up to 3 Beaufort, gradually turning […]
Tourist arrivals in Cyprus displayed a slight yet steady increase in May 2024, compared to the same month last year, with the primary markets sustaining robust performance levels, the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) revealed on Monday. Notably, the figures for this period show a rise in tourist numbers to 421,400 from 420,076 in May 2023, […]
Saudi Arabia’s annual inflation rate remained at 1.6 per cent for the third month running in May, government data showed on Sunday, with higher housing rents still the main driver. Housing rents rose 10.5 per cent from a year earlier underpinned by a 14.3 per cent rise in apartment rents, according to the General Authority […]
Asking prices for British homes coming to the market were flat this month, adding to signs of a recent cooling off in the housing market upswing, a survey from property market website Rightmove showed on Monday. The company said the average asking price was 375,110 pounds ($475,827) for property put on sale between May 12 […]
Standard Chartered on Monday lost a bid to cut from a London lawsuit allegations that it broke US sanctions against Iran in a more widespread way than it has previously admitted. More than 200 investors are suing Standard Chartered (STAN.L) at London’s High Court for allegedly untrue statements about its sanctions non-compliance between 2007 and […]
Oil refiners are making less money selling their gasoline as demand during the peak summer driving season has fallen short of what they expected when many of them boosted production. Softness in gasoline markets have upended years of record profits on selling transportation fuels. In the US, the world’s largest gasoline market, refiners ramped up […]
The Health Insurance Organisation (HIO) warned on Monday that the absence of adequate infrastructure for elderly care could compromise the effective functioning of the healthcare system in Cyprus. A report released by the HIO last week warned of the lack of specialised care facilities for patients, especially the elderly, who cannot return home after hospital […]
A windfall tax on the banks’ big profits would harm the economy, Central Bank governor Christodoulos Patsalides said last week, in his first news conference since taking the job. He explained that such a move would undermine the fiscal stability that is essential for attracting foreign investors to Cyprus. He had made a good point, […]
France delivered a 100th victory for manager Didier Deschamps as they edged a tenacious Austria side 1-0 in their opening Group D match at Euro 2024 on Monday but it came at a cost as talisman Kylian Mbappe suffered a broken nose. It was by no means a vintage performance and France required an own […]
