Posts tagged with "Ayia Napa"

Boy injured in amusement park ‘doing well’ Cyprus

Boy injured in amusement park ‘doing well’

April 19th, 20191900 A seven-year-old boy who was seriously injured in an amusement park accident last week is doing well and is expected to be discharged in two weeks, a health ministry official said Friday. His mother, who was also injured is also well, ministry permanent secretary Christina Yiannaki said after visiting the seven-year-old in the private...
Ayia Napa park closes until accident investigation wraps Cyprus

Ayia Napa park closes until accident investigation wraps

April 14th, 20198271 The operation of the Ayia Napa amusement park was on Sunday suspended following the injury on Friday night of a 44-year-old woman and her seven-year-old son when the swing they were in crashed into the pole of a neighbouring ride. The management of the park said that it will remain closed until the circumstances under which the...
Mother, son injured in Napa amusement park accident (Update 2) Cyprus

Mother, son injured in Napa amusement park accident (Update 2)

April 13th, 201916843 A seven-year-old boy and his 44-year-old mother were seriously injured at the Ayia Napa amusement park on Friday night after their swing collided with another ride, police said. According to authorities, at approximately 10:30pm the mother and son, who were on holiday from Russia, were on a ride at Parko Paliatso, when part of the...
Melco announces location of Napa and Paphos casinos Cyprus

Melco announces location of Napa and Paphos casinos

April 11th, 20193099 CASINO operator Melco announced on Thursday the location of its two new satellite establishments in Ayia Napa and Paphos, which will be up and running by the end of the year. The Ayia Napa casino will be located on Archbishop Makarios Avenue, next to Faros Hotel, in the heart of the popular holiday resort, and is expected to open its...
Thirteen new sculptures for Ayia Napa park Cyprus

Thirteen new sculptures for Ayia Napa park

April 4th, 20191571 Eleven sculptors from various countries are currently working on 13 creations for the Ayia Napa sculpture symposium being orgnanised for the sixth consecutive year. The aim is to enrich the coastal resort’s 20,000 square-metre sculpture park with the works of artists from around the world. At the moment, phase two of the...
Napa authorities seek to tackle noise pollution Cyprus

Napa authorities seek to tackle noise pollution

March 6th, 20191984 The Ayia Napa municipality said Wednesday it is determined to tackle noise pollution and rowdiness, which are widespread during the summer months when the popular holiday resort is flooded with thousands of mostly young tourists. "The municipality is determined to take measures to immediately address and solve the problem of noise...
Work set to start on Ayia Napa monastery upgrade Cyprus

Work set to start on Ayia Napa monastery upgrade

March 5th, 20191471 Work will start this month to upgrade the Ayia Napa monastery, with the project set to take until May 2020 to be completed, it was announced on Tuesday. During this time there will be no services. However, visits to the church can take place, but for security reasons it will not be possible to visit any other part of the monastery, an...
Environmental authorities reject Ayia Napa golf course Cyprus

Environmental authorities reject Ayia Napa golf course

February 26th, 20191513 Environmental authorities have turned down an application for a golf resort in the Ayia Napa area because of the negative irreversible effects on the natural environment. The decision was taken after they conducted an ecological assessment study and an environmental impact study, daily Phileleftheros reported on Tuesday. The study...
Eleven tourists honoured for repeatedly visiting Ayia Napa Cyprus

Eleven tourists honoured for repeatedly visiting Ayia Napa

February 16th, 20192874 Eleven tourists from Norway were named Ayia Napa Ambassadors of Tourism in the first ceremony for 2019, held by the Mayor Yiannos Karousos. The ceremony was held on Friday, at the municipal offices of Ayia Napa. Karousos welcomed the visitors, explaining why they had received the award, saying that their frequent visits represent Ayia...
Napa mayor wants to turn town's unsightly roofs ‘green’ Cyprus

Napa mayor wants to turn town's unsightly roofs ‘green’

February 13th, 20192303 Ayia Napa Mayor Yiannis Karousos is contemplating a pilot programme to ‘green’ the resort by introducing a scheme to hide unsightly roof-top water tanks with greenery. According to CNA, Karousos said a strategic plan has been drawn up for the centre of Ayia Napa, the mandate for which is that the town must be transformed into a...
15,000 trees to change the image of Ayia Napa Cyprus

15,000 trees to change the image of Ayia Napa

February 1st, 20192178 Ayia Napa municipality will plant more than 15,000 trees around the resort, Mayor Yiannis Karousos announced on Friday. “Ayia Napa proceeds with increasing and upgrading of the green areas in the whole region, replacing plants, trees or shrubs which have died and planting trees where there is no greenery. A total of 15,000 trees...
Ayia Napa fire thought to have started outside building Cyprus

Ayia Napa fire thought to have started outside building

January 11th, 20191356 A fire which extensively damaged a flat in Ayia Napa on Thursday evening is believed to have started outside the building. The fire services were notified of the fire on the first floor of a building in Ayia Napa’s Tefkrou Anthia street at 7.30pm. The fire was brought under control an hour later with the help of four fire...
Napa mayor calls for emergency meeting over local authority reforms Cyprus

Napa mayor calls for emergency meeting over local authority reforms

January 11th, 20192278 AYIA Napa Mayor Yiannis Karousos has asked for an emergency meeting of the Union of Municipalities in a bid to put a halt to the intention of abolishing a number of local authorities as part of plans to reform the bankrupt sector. In a letter to the chairman of the union, Karousos said there was a sense that municipalities were...
Nissi beach among world’s best city beaches Cyprus

Nissi beach among world’s best city beaches

December 20th, 20183236 Ayia Napa’s Nissi Beach has been placed 25th on a list of the world’s top 50 city beaches by Canada’s largest online travel agency Flight Network. To create the list, more than 1,200 travel journalists, editors, bloggers and agencies from around the world gave their opinion on where it is best to mix sun and sand with city...
Ayia Napa ‘too successful’ to be merged under reforms, mayor says Cyprus

Ayia Napa ‘too successful’ to be merged under reforms, mayor says

December 1st, 20183928 By Lizzy Ioannidou The Ayia Napa municipality is expected to have a budget surplus of €3.6m in 2019, according to Mayor Yiannis Karousos, who said its economic viability suggests it should not be merged as part of the planned local-government reform. The city council recently approved the sum of €19.2m for the 2019 budget,...
Inquest held into George Low murder, judge to rule later   Crime

Inquest held into George Low murder, judge to rule later  

November 30th, 20182166 By Evie Andreou An inquest into the cause of death of George Low, the 22-year-old British man who was stabbed in August 2016 in Ayia Napa, took place on Friday at the Paralimni court. No date was set for the judge to issue his findings. Present at the hearing were also the parents of the 22-year-old, Martyn and Helen Low, from...
Bridge becomes latest Ayia Napa public work of art Cyprus

Bridge becomes latest Ayia Napa public work of art

November 26th, 20182008 The bridge linking two Ayia Napa parks, the sculpture park and the cactus park, has been turned into a work of art called the Argo and was inaugurated over the weekend by Mayor Yiannis Karousos and president of the Ayia Napa symposium committee Kikis Constantinou. The bridge resembling an ancient Greek ship is the work of Belgian...
Napa murder suspects released Cyprus

Napa murder suspects released

November 23rd, 20182439 Four suspects arrested in connection with the killing, in Ayia Napa early this month, of Gary Christodoulou have been released. The four had been remanded for eight days on November 16 but were released on Thursday evening because no evidence was found tying them to the murder. The four men, aged 27, 36, 44 and 35 have denied any...
No clues yet concerning highway murder Cyprus

No clues yet concerning highway murder

November 4th, 20185372 Police on Sunday said they have no clues that could lead to the perpetrators of the premeditated murder of 33-year-old Gary Boris Christodoulou, committed shortly before midnight last Thursday in Ayia Napa. Investigations continue, police said, but, at the moment, they have no clues that could shed more light on the...
Russian tourist run over and killed in Napa Cyprus

Russian tourist run over and killed in Napa

October 25th, 20183658 A 73-year-old Russian tourist was killed in Ayia Napa on Thursday after she was run over by a car. The accident happened around 3.45pm. The woman was crossing Nissi Avenue, when she was hit by an oncoming taxi driven by a 65-year-old man. A breathalyser test on the taxi driver found zero alcohol. A post-mortem is to be carried...
Not a laughing matter: pubs selling laughing gas in Ayia Napa Cyprus

Not a laughing matter: pubs selling laughing gas in Ayia Napa

September 15th, 20185983 By Liam Carter Although illegal, the sale of laughing gas in popular tourist destinations is so blatant that many bars and nightclubs are actually advertising and selling the drug themselves. A simple stroll through the centre of Ayia Napa highlights the prevalence of laughing gas or ‘hippy crack’. Many nightclubs and bars...
Noise pollution turning into a mockery in Ayia Napa Cyprus

Noise pollution turning into a mockery in Ayia Napa

August 28th, 20183624 The owner of an establishment in Ayia Napa mocked a neighbour who complained about noise by sending him a set of earmuffs and signing a note “with love,” according to the popular resort’s mayor Yiannis Karousos. In a post on his Facebook page, Karousos published a photo of the ‘gift’ censuring the cheeky...
Rental motorcycles destroyed by arson (updated) Cyprus

Rental motorcycles destroyed by arson (updated)

August 21st, 20181732 The fire which destroyed 12 three-wheeled rental motorcycles in the early morning hours on Tuesday in Ayia Napa was caused by arson, police announced. Experts found inflammable material at the scene of the fire and police are searching for the arsonists. The fire was detected at 3.40am at a shelter under which the vehicles were...
Foureira gets celebrity star in Ayia Napa Cyprus

Foureira gets celebrity star in Ayia Napa

August 17th, 20182406 Greek pop star Eleni Foureira who represented Cyprus this year at the Eurovision song contest and came second with the song Fuego, has been given her own star at the Ayia Napa Celebrity Square, the municipality said on Friday. Foureira was presented with the plaque with her name by Ayia Napa Mayor, Yiannis Karousos, last week while...
Police arrest five Britons over Napa beating Cyprus

Police arrest five Britons over Napa beating

August 16th, 20184446 Five Britons, aged 19 and 20, were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the beating and serious injury of a 21-year-old man, also from the UK, early on Tuesday in Ayia Napa. The man – who was holidaying in Cyprus - was in serious condition in Nicosia general hospital’s intensive care unit after being attacked by around 12...
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