Fact: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has invited Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to meet him in New York on April 5. Tatar was unable to travel to Brussels for a meeting, so the New York meeting was scheduled instead. Tatar will inform Guterres that he does not accept a federal solution to the Cyprus problem.
Carlos Alcaraz felt frustrated and like a 13-year-old after his defeat by Grigor Dimitrov in the Miami Open quarter-finals.
Fact: Lionel Messi will not consider his age as a deciding factor in his retirement plans.
Fact: Cyprus’ Industrial Production Index for January 2024 saw a 4.2 per cent rise compared to the same period in 2023, reaching 99.5 units.
The board of directors of state-owned asset management company Kedipes decided to make a cash payment of €140 million to the state for the first quarter of 2024. The payment is part of repaying state aid received by the former Cooperative Cyprus Bank. The total amount of cash repayment against state aid now stands at €1.3 billion, and Kedipes maintains a cash reserve of €60 million for financing the ‘Mortgage to Rent’ scheme.
Total deposits in Cyprus saw a significant net increase of €65.4 million in February 2024, rebounding from a substantial decrease of €366 million in the previous month.
The house of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios ethnological museum in Nicosia will close on Saturday due to emergency conservation works.
The Christodoula charity march will be staged for the 49th consecutive year on April 7 in Limassol, starting from Molos’ open-air theatre at 10:30am.
UBS flagged the downturn in commercial real estate markets as one of the top and emerging risks facing the Swiss bank, with higher borrowing costs and a post-pandemic slump in demand for office space affecting the sector.
