#Akamas

Works in the Akamas will resume “immediately” President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday, despite calls against it by the Green Party. Speaking about last month’s cabinet decision regarding changes ...

Restarting works in Akamas would be a terrible mistake, head of the Green Party Giorgos Perdikis said on Friday after a meeting with Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou. Calling the matter ...

The Greens on Friday called for a complete re-design of the Akamas plan, saying a reversal of the controversial road works does not go far enough in protecting the national ...

The roads being built in Akamas are not wider than originally planned, the outgoing head of the forestry department Charalambos Alexandrou said on Monday, in a swansong statement on the ...

Roadworks in Akamas will have to be corrected in part, the Green Party said on Friday, following a visit by foreign experts to the site after being invited by the ...

The environmental movement of Cyprus has condemned works in the Akamas Peninsula on Thursday, saying that the area has been subjected to the “grip of capitalism”. The latest development on ...

The cabinet has approved a proposal for changes concerning the implementation of the Sustainable Development Plan (SDP) projects for the Akamas National Park, specifically a review of the contentious roadworks ...

The auditor-general’s office said on Tuesday it does not yet have access to the administrative investigation into road works within the Akamas national forest park, and therefore is unable ...

Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Saturday that roadworks in Akamas will proceed and that they will not be suspended under any circumstances. Following a meeting with all those involved ...

The legal service will examine 20 cases of violations on Akamas agricultural property next to the protected Natura 2000 zone, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. Owners have ignored warnings from the ...

From the casino in Akrotiri to the Akamas roadworks, we are just not learning the lesson I was more than a little interested to read in the press recently that ...

My daughter’s name is Lara. Lara is also a place where I created some of my fondest childhood memories. Within those memories, are tiny little creatures scrambling to make ...

Works for the Akamas road network will go ahead taking into account their environmental impact, public safety and benefits to the surrounding communities, President Nikos Christodoulides stressed on Saturday. He ...

Environmental organisations lambasted the agriculture ministry again on Friday for failing to conduct works properly for Akamas and instead choosing to invite them to visit the site to see the ...

By Tom Cleaver and Elias Hazou Contractors have been ordered to halt all construction work within the Akamas national forest until December 18, while a group of experts review whether the ...

Environmental organisations sought to hold authorities, including the agriculture and environment minister, to a strict accounting over the Akamas roadworks on Wednesday and demanded a substantive response. Speaking on CyBC, ...

Agriculture Minister Petros Xenophontos on Tuesday said that works have shown some deviations from the Akamas plan and need to be investigated. A recent environmental and administrative investigation into the ...

Green party leader Giorgos Perdikis on Monday requested to meet with President Nikos Christodoulides over issues that have developed with roadworks in Akamas. Perdikis formally requested the meeting in a ...

The authorities were “kept informed at all stages of the study and licencing of the project” of road constructions in Akamas, company Efpalinos Meletitiki said on Thursday. Additionally, the company ...

Works in Akamas are “partially frozen,” the agriculture ministry’s general director Costas Hadjipanayiotou told the House environment committee on Wednesday, noting that the Ministry’s administrative investigation into the ...

The human bones found in Akamas earlier this month belonged to a British man who resided permanently in Cyprus. Police operations chief Michalis Nicolaou told the Cyprus News Agency that ...

The Cyprus Architects’ Association on Friday called for an immediate re-evaluation of the construction being carried out in the Akamas area. They added that the competent ministries and all parties ...

Akamas is a national project and not private property and the need for restoration of damages is urgent, Klitos Papastylianou, ex-scientific advisor for the Akamas special environmental assessment said on ...

By Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver Contractor Cyfield announced that it would be stopping all works on the road network in the Akamas peninsula as of Wednesday until all issues ...