#Akamas

Elections for new community council members for two Akamas villages will be held at the end of May, Paphos District Officer Mary Lambrou announced on Thursday. The election decision comes ...

At least eight waterspouts were spotted off Paphos on Thursday evening just off the coast between Paphos and Agios Giorgios/Akamas. A Cyprus Mail reader submitted the following photos. #gallery-169 { ...

Akamas landowners called on the ministers of agriculture, interior and finance on Tuesday to determine levels of compensation over the introduction of the Akamas local plan. The matter had been ...

A yellow weather warning is in place on Wednesday for strong to gale force winds from 9 am to 5 pm. The western and south-western regions of the island are the most ...

A reprieve for Akamas, but what of the wider countryside and common species? By Martin Hellicar The latest in a long series of ‘save Akamas’ campaigns staves off the worst ...

The federation of environmental organisations on Tuesday expressed its support for the finalised Akamas plan, which it said succeeds in walking the fine line between conservation and sustainable development. Speaking ...

Thirteen people that were lost in Akamas in the evening of Sunday made it out of the area safely, police said on Monday. According to police, the 13 people, six of ...

Just days before the end of the Anastasiades administration, two of his ministers publicly disagreed Friday on the compensatory measures for landowners connected to the Akamas local plan with Agriculture ...

While Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis on Thursday expressed pride over finalising the Akamas local plan, Greens MP Charalambos Theopemtou warned its implementation may be a whole other story. According to ...

The outgoing government appeared to have opted for a political joke as its parting shot. Wednesday’s last meeting of the cabinet under President Anastasiades authorised Interior Minister Nicos Nouris ...

Paphos quarry workers said on Wednesday that there is a “glimmer of hope” after the government announced a six-month delay and four-month objection period to the freshly publicised Akamas plan. ...

BirdLife Cyprus on Friday rallied against requests for a new quarry zone in Androlikou as part of the Akamas local development plan. In a statement, the environmental NGO said that ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis and Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios met with representatives of the World Bank on Thursday, who gave their advice on a potential tourism strategy for ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis on Wednesday said €443 million euros in grants and subsidies had been allocated to the agricultural sector between 2018 to 2022, marking significant progress. Presenting his assessment of recent ...

Environmental NGOs BirdLife Cyprus, Terra Cypria, Cyprus Natural Coastline and the Hunting and Wildlife Conservation have urged the government to present a final draft of the Akamas local development plan ...

The finalised version of the Akamas local development plan will be presented before the end of the current government’s term, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis and Interior Minister Nicos Nouris ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis and Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said that the finalised version of the Akamas local development plan will be discussed at the next Council of Ministers on ...

The Green Party expressed strong concern on Friday about construction projects currently underway in Akamas. The works being carried out under the pretext of improving the road network involve deep ...

Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said that he has not been pressured by big interests on the Akamas plan but conceded that changes should have been made by now. The minister ...

Akamas landowners on Wednesday called on President Nicos Anastasiaades to resolve ongoing ministerial disputes that are getting in the way of finalising the Akamas local development plan. According to an ...

Efforts to improve the roads within the Akamas national park are underway and have shifted from the planning stage to concrete action, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Friday. The ...

The federation of environmental NGOs (Opok) has urged the town planning department to finalise the Akamas plan, stating that significant human and financial resources have been exerted on the process. ...

The Akamas Landowners Association on Friday said it expects the auditor-general to call them to hand over evidence it has in its possession of what it says is a “scandal” ...

A three-day conference aiming to explore the conservation, management and governance of protected areas and its application in the Akamas peninsula began on Wednesday. Some of the core themes being ...