The Jewel of the Seas sets sail from Limassol on Saturday marking the beginning of Royal Caribbean’s return to the Mediterranean, a bold move mid-pandemic after Cypriot authorities jumped on board to offer a helping hand to an industry desperately looking for a welcoming port.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday that Cyprus’ recovery and resilience plan was well balanced and addressed key structural challenges it was faced with, as the EU adopted a positive assessment of the proposals in an important step for the disbursal of €1.2 billion in grants and loans.

The digital readiness of Cyprus consumers is quite well-developed, a new study shows.

Despite warnings from the government and the banking industry not to, lawmakers on Thursday passed a law further extending a freeze on home foreclosures.

Cyprus has been ‘downgraded’ to the ‘dark red’ zone for coronavirus in the latest update issued by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Thursday, after registering 493.13 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 14 days.

Cyprus has secured €35 million from the promotion of electric mobility in the European Union fund, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Friday.

Now under Maltese ownership, Larnaca-based Cyprus Airways announced a third scheduled Moscow flight from 25 July, with bookings available.

Annual house prices in the first quarter of 2021 fell 5.8% in Cyprus, while across the European Union, they rose by an average of 6.1%.

In late June, the Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (the “CySEC”) issued its new directive on the prevention and suppression of money laundering activities, which specifically focuses on crypto-asset service providers (the “CASPs”) and their duty to register with the CySEC. According to the directive, the CySEC will maintain a public register which will record, inter alia, the name and legal form of such CASPs, the services they will be allowed to offer and their individual internet domains.

The Cabinet has approved a €6 million budget to compensate people who lost their homes and businesses in the island’s worst wildfire, including families of the four Egyptian workers who perished.