#Akamas

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 ...

The department of environment and the game service have officially acknowledged a slew of violations of the legal terms governing road improvements in Akamas it was reported on Tuesday. The ...

The president’s statements and his directives to suspend road construction projects in the Akama Peninsula provide a final opportunity to avert a disaster, environmental group Friends of Akamas have ...

Single issue? Progressive? Just some of the difficult choices in the Greens leadership elections next week The Cyprus Green party are holding their general conference next Sunday, electing a new ...

Works in the Akamas should stop immediately, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Saturday, who said he was “personally annoyed” by pictures that showed roadworks have deviated from the agreed framework ...

There is no suspicion of a criminal act so far concerning the human remains found in Akamas on Wednesday, Paphos CID chief Michalis Nikolaou said. Nikolaou stated that evidence at ...

The human bones found in Akamas on Wednesday were identified to be of a 69-year-old foreign national, who has been missing from his home for seven months. The man has ...

By Efi Xanthou Since the spring of 2022, works have been underway in the Akamas Peninsula under the auspices of the Forestry Department for the first phase of the Akamas National ...

Huge delays in the roadworks in Akamas have been seen, Environment Minister Petros Xenophontos said on Tuesday while visiting the area as environmental groups and the audit service claiming some ...

The audit office said on Monday that the roadworks in Akamas at first glance seems to have issues and fail to be in line with what was agreed in an ...

Environmental groups call for roadworks to halt saying plan is being violated After 38 years of struggle to protect Akamas the prospects of genuine conservation of the peninsula – the only remaining ...

Irregularities and violations in implementing the Akamas National Park plan were raised by opposition party Akel on Wednesday, amid mounting concern expressed by environmentalists. Environmental NGOs and the Green party ...

Serious violations are taking place as the first phase of the Akamas development plan gets underway, nature and wildlife protection groups said on Monday, warning that the future of the ...

Eleven villages in the Akamas peninsula on Saturday protested government plans to divide them between the municipalities of Polis Chrysochou and Peyia in the upcoming local government reform. Speaking at ...

You cannot hope for success in promoting Akamas as a nature destination while also allowing development to encroach and expand With wildlife tourism, you really cannot have your cake and ...

Roads, kiosks and houses all spell disaster By Efi Xanthou The Akamas peninsula is the last pristine area left in the non-occupied area of Cyprus. And change is imminent. Road ...