Embria, a Cyprus-based venture builder firm that founds, funds and grows its own startups from the ground up, earlier this month announced that it has sold its stake in Finnish jobs site Duunitori.

The President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades has tested positive for COVID-19.

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Tuesday welcomed a “clear improvement” in grades as the results of the Pancyprian exams for school leavers – on the basis of which students can secure a university place – were announced.

The new tax tool TaxApp.cy provides a last minute solution for people who have not submitted their tax return in time.

The Bank of Cyprus has put back the deadline for applications to its voluntary retirement scheme until Friday, as the target it had set for staff reductions had not been met. By Monday afternoon’s deadline, it had received 350 applications for early retirement, although the bank’s restructuring plan envisaged the departure of between 500 and 600 workers.

Tourist operators and residents of Kato Pyrgos Tyllirias are satisfied with tourism in the area as they are seeing the same numbers as last year, community leader Nicos Cleanthous said on Tuesday.

Leptos Coral Seas Villas is superbly located on the coastline in a pristine area of picturesque Coral Bay, within walking distance to the 5-star Coral Beach Hotel and Resort in Paphos. It is a show-stopping development featuring high-end facilities with awe-inspiring views of the Mediterranean located just 10 minutes away from the cosmopolitan town of Paphos.

EY announced an investment of more than US$1b in a next generation assurance technology platform – part of a sustained focus on providing high quality audits and responding rapidly to changing expectations from regulators, governments, standard setters, audit committees and boards. The four-year investment is enabled by a wider US$2.5b program, announced by the EY organization in September 2021.

Tourist arrivals to Cyprus have reached 75% of levels seen in 2019, deputy minister for tourism Savvas Perdios said on Sunday, describing the figure as “not bad”.

The problems faced by health centres in the mountains are on the way to being solved, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela said on Saturday visiting the Troodos hospital in Kyperounta.