Iole Damaskinos

Anecdotal evidence that numbers of loggerhead turtles increasing A team of biologists from the Mediterranean Turtle Research and Conservation Society with local youth volunteers are braving the heatwave to document ...

Minister of Agriculture Petros Xenophontos on Wednesday said autonomous solar energy is the solution to the problem of exposed cables running through the Paphos forest. The minister’s announcement came ...

Fire service spokesperson Andreas Kettis on Wednesday said that the three fires that had been extinguished in the Paphos district between Akoudralia and Steni “present common traits indicating malicious actions ...

Mayor of Polis Chrysochous Yiotis Papachristofis has asked for the immediate intervention of the minister of health to solve the problems of the town’s hospital. According to an announcement ...

The fire in the Elitzies area of the Paphos forest was contained on Tuesday with the forestry department and the electricity authority (EAC) disagreeing over whether the blaze was caused ...

Authorities in Cyprus are poised to gain access on Tuesday to the files of 90 million people through the Schengen Information System (SIS). As a result the state’s national security ...

The British Veterinary Association (BVA), has posted a statement on its website, calling on UK visitors to the island to take precautions against cat covid or feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). ...

Firefighters and volunteers intensified their efforts early on Monday morning in Rhodes, following all-night battles with the flames. Monday marks the seventh day of fire extinction efforts and Cyprus had ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday is cautiously optimistic over the prospects of a joint visit with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, to the committee of missing persons (CMP). Director of ...

Of late, it seems, there have been a spate of environmental atrocities beyond what even the most jaded among us can bear to witness. Those of us who still somehow ...

A growing number of citizens groups have pressed for a reinstatement of electricity subsidies in the midst of the ongoing heatwave but the official line, that state finances permit only ...

The Greens said on Tuesday that the state is obliged to relocate heavy industry away from residential areas, but others argue that the issue has been exacerbated by people building ...

Leaders and representatives from Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot political parties have expressed their “unwavering support” for the continuation of the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). Under ...

A man was bitten by a turtle while swimming at the Kato Paphos municipal beach on Monday. The incident happened in the morning in the popular area known locally as ‘...

Air quality had reverted back to normal levels on Monday afternoon in Geri, after a recycling plant in the area burned to the ground. Earlier in the day, the labour ...

Tucked away between Loulla’s clothing boutique and a medical lab in Polis Chrysochous, lies an unassuming gem-of-a-place, the Polis charity bookshop. Operating from its current premises since 2005 (previously out ...

An ongoing embroilment between church and municipality in Paphos flared up Friday after a two-year hiatus, with the municipality waking up to find its funds having been frozen by the ...

Ninety per cent of the Paphos forest has been closed off from public access due to extreme fire risk, Forestry Department Director, Charalambos Alexandrou announced on Friday. “We are always ...

Issues concerning Famagusta residents, local authorities and entrepreneurs, were discussed at a meeting between Disy head Annita Demetriou and the board of the district’s tourism, commerce and entrepreneurial company (...

Three men believed to have been the captains of boats carrying 33 migrants, were remanded in Famagusta district court for seven days on Friday. Police said it had secured testimonies that ...

The fires services responded to 21 fires over 24 hours the service announced on Thursday and issued an urgent warning to the public of extremely heightened fire risk due to the prevailing ...

International news outlets on Wednesday were reporting on the decimation of cats in Cyprus from a feline coronavirus strain, saying that 300,000 cats had died. The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, and ...

A year and a half since traffic cameras were introduced not a single unpaid fine has been registered in court. According to police information, the proportion of unpaid notices, known ...

Electric scooters are causing problems in Paphos, police spokesman Michalis Nikolaou said on Tuesday, since local authorities have not made provision for their conditions of use. In the past year, ...