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Cyprus ranked third on Family Beach Index Cyprus

Cyprus ranked third on Family Beach Index

January 11th, 2019 A new ‘Family Beach Index’ ranks Cyprus third on a list of 50 family beach destinations in eight European countries. Researchers looked at air and sea temperatures, family friendly attractions, flight duration from the UK and average cost for a family of four to compile the rankings. The island of Crete came first, with the...
No safe place to swim Cyprus

No safe place to swim

October 1st, 2018 The most ambitious project for Chlorakas in more than a decade is set to change all that THE creation of a new beach, breakwaters and leisure facilities is earmarked for Chlorakas in Paphos, and at a cost of around €4 million, is being hailed as the most ambitious and important project for the area in more than a decade. The project...
Developer wins appeal to build next to popular Coral Bay Cyprus

Developer wins appeal to build next to popular Coral Bay

September 29th, 2018 By Bejay Browne LEPTOS developers won their appeal to build next to the blue-flagged Coral Bay beach in Paphos months ago, it emerged on Friday, but local councillors were only informed of the move at Thursday night’s council meeting, they said. The appeal is connected to the development of ‘Plot 1’ which sits above Coral Bay...
Is ‘Real Cyprus’ a bit of a dump?   Opinion

Is ‘Real Cyprus’ a bit of a dump?  

July 22nd, 2018 My family were here on holiday, they enjoyed the sun, the hotel, the pool and the beach. They had a great time. They decided to hire a car, and have a few days away from the resort, enjoy the countryside, the unspoilt beaches and try some local taverns. Getting out and about and to see ‘Real Cyprus’. They made their way out of...
Eight bodies on north beach probably drowned Syrian migrants Cyprus

Eight bodies on north beach probably drowned Syrian migrants

May 14th, 2018   A total of eight bodies have been found washed up on the shores of northern Cyprus over the past two days, Turkish Cypriot police said on Monday, adding the dead were believed to be Syrian migrants. The bodies were found off Karpasia peninsula, an official at the Rizokarpaso police station said. The boat may have sunk on...
Solution still sought for blue-flagged Coral Bay Cyprus

Solution still sought for blue-flagged Coral Bay

February 23rd, 2018 By Bejay Browne NO solution is in sight for the ongoing problem of public access to the popular blue-flagged Coral Bay beach in Paphos that attracts thousands of visitors every year. Access to the beach is currently across a piece of privately owned land which has been used as a car park in recent years. Owners, Leptos Developers,...
‘Civil servant spent workdays hanging out at the beach’ Cyprus

‘Civil servant spent workdays hanging out at the beach’

February 1st, 2018 A probe has been launched into a worker of the public works department, who, for the past five years, has allegedly spent most of his working hours out and about at the Larnaca seafront and brags that he is untouchable as his best friend is a political figure, it emerged on Thursday. According to reports in Greek Cypriot media, the...
No plans to change beach status of Aphrodite’s Rock Cyprus

No plans to change beach status of Aphrodite’s Rock

August 17th, 2017 Kouklia community leader, Michalis Nicolaou, denied media claims on Wednesday that the village wants the EU-protected Petra tou Romiou to become an officially organised public beach, but stressed that his community is demanding such a beach within its jurisdiction. According to media reports, the community of Kouklia in Paphos have...
Teens accused of stealing swimmers’ backpacks Cyprus

Teens accused of stealing swimmers’ backpacks

July 31st, 2017 A 17-year-old boy was arrested late on Sunday at a Limassol beach, after a bather realised he had stolen his backpack, which he had left on the beach to go swim, a police report said. According to the report, at around 11:30pm Sunday, a 34-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman, who had been swimming at a Limassol beach, noticed two...
Tourists found dead at beach Cyprus

Tourists found dead at beach

June 18th, 2017 Two male tourists that were found unconscious on Saturday, one in Larnaca and another in Protaras, were pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. A 62-year-old, a tourist from Austria was found unconscious by his wife on a sun bed at the beach of the hotel they were staying at. He was taken to Larnaca general hospital where he was...
North to open stretch of beach near Varosha Cyprus

North to open stretch of beach near Varosha

June 9th, 2017 Local authorities in the northern part of Famagusta struck a deal with the Turkish military to open part of the beach towards the southern end of the fenced-off area of Varosha, Turkish Cypriot media reported on Friday. The 240-metre stretch, will be open to the public between May 15 and October 29 next year, once the existing nearby...
Leptos and Peyia look to Paphos district office for solutions Cyprus

Leptos and Peyia look to Paphos district office for solutions

June 5th, 2017 THE Paphos district officer will mediate at a meeting due to be held next week between Leptos developers and Peyia municipality concerning a deadlock over a number of long standing issues between the two parties, according to officials. In particular, issues concern access to popular Coral Bay beach, the operation of the two kiosks...
Dead fish wash up on north beach Cyprus

Dead fish wash up on north beach

September 5th, 2016 Thousands of fish, particularly mullet, are washing up on a beach near occupied Vokolidha in the north, and more found floating at the edges of a small lake near Galateia in the same area, according to reports in the Turkish Cypriot press on Monday. Reports said the lake water had turned reddish and suggested it was because it was...
Geroskipou beach upgrades aim to attract thousands of visitors Cyprus

Geroskipou beach upgrades aim to attract thousands of visitors

August 20th, 2016 GEROSKIPOU beach aims to be the ‘best beach’ in Paphos, as massive upgrading works will make the area more appealing to swimmers and beach goers, according to the mayor. Michalis Pavlides told the Sunday Mail that the slightly ramshackle appearance of the area will disappear as its’ smartened up, and new plans, which have been...
Land art: in nature from nature at the Anassa [PHOTOS] Cyprus

Land art: in nature from nature at the Anassa [PHOTOS]

July 23rd, 2016 An artist couple who teach the subject, have created, along with help from students and art lovers, a huge portrait of Aphrodite made with stones, on the beach in front of the Anassa hotel on the Akamas peninsula. “Land art is art in nature from nature,” Katerina Foukara, who along with her sculptor husband Arsentiy Lysenkov have...
News in Brief

British man who left his clothes on beach found safe at apartment

Police and the joint Search and Rescue Coordination Centre were mobilised Friday morning after clothes were discovered on a Limassol beach, only to find their British owner asleep drunk at home. Limassol CID head Ioannis Sotiriades said things were put motion after a British man reported he found his 34-year-old friend’s clothes...
Breakwaters at last for deadly Paphos beach [VIDEO] Cyprus

Breakwaters at last for deadly Paphos beach [VIDEO]

July 3rd, 2016 By Bejay Browne Three breakwaters, at a cost of two million euros, are finally due to be constructed in Paphos this year, which will halt more than a decade of drownings along a deadly stretch of coastline, according to the head of the local beaches committee. Last Sunday, a 58-year-old Polish tourist was the latest victim to lose...
Arrest after beach fracas, man injured in Kiti Cyprus

Arrest after beach fracas, man injured in Kiti

June 20th, 2016 A 19-year-old man from Kiti in Larnaca was arrested late on Saturday in connection with an alleged assault on a 34-year-old from the same village. According to police on Saturday at around 6.30pm they received a call about a fracas at Kareta beach involving a group of men. When they got to the scene however, there was no one...
Bases police urge public not to leave valuables in their cars at the beach Cyprus

Bases police urge public not to leave valuables in their cars at the beach

June 10th, 2016 British bases police on Friday urged the public to be careful with what they leave in their cars when they go to for a swim, following a reported cash and clothing theft from the vehicle of a beach goer. “SBA police invites those visiting beaches to be careful about the objects they leave in their vehicles, noting that this week...
Thomas Cook gives top marks to Ayia Thekla beach for weddings Cyprus

Thomas Cook gives top marks to Ayia Thekla beach for weddings

May 25th, 2016 Thomas Cook has recommended Ayia Thekla beach, in the village of Sotira, in the Famagusa district, as the perfect place to hold civil weddings, in the summer 2016 edition of its ‘Travel’ magazine. The Summer 2016 edition covers Cyprus, the Greek Islands, Malta, Tobago, Venice, Cape Town, Majorca, Mexico and Los Angeles. With a...
Free sunbeds for disabled in Ayia Napa Cyprus

Free sunbeds for disabled in Ayia Napa

May 14th, 2016 Ayia Napa Municipality announced on Saturday it has made arrangements to provide free sun beds and umbrellas at the Landa and Vathia Gonia beaches to better accommodate disabled people. The municipality placed sunbeds and umbrellas on the two beaches, just two metres from the water, on the left and right of wooden ramps that...
Greens denounce works at Sirena Bay in Protaras   Cyprus

Greens denounce works at Sirena Bay in Protaras  

May 5th, 2016 The Green Party and the Initiative for the Preservation of Natural Coastal areas on Thursday denounced the destruction of the natural environment at Sirena Bay in Protaras. According to the Green Party a project meant to shore up some rocks has resulted in the destruction of the natural vegetation at the beach. In June 2014 the...
Charges dropped against community council over beach permits Cyprus

Charges dropped against community council over beach permits

November 18th, 2015 By Bejay Browne The charges against the entire community council of Kissonerga in Paphos over permits for a beach cafe, have finally been dropped, according to its head. Community leader, George Stylianou, told the Cyprus Mail that after a series of meetings with both the Paphos District Office and the Minster of the Interior,...
Austrian tourist rescued from drowning News in Brief

Austrian tourist rescued from drowning

October 18th, 2015 A 69-year-old Austrian woman was rescued from drowning early on Sunday in Larnaca, the Cyprus News Agency reported. The woman was swimming off Phinikoudes beach around 7am when her husband noticed that she appeared to have lost consciousness and began shouting for help. Lifeguards and other swimmers rushed to where she was and...
Greens at loggerheads with hotel over turtle nests Cyprus

Greens at loggerheads with hotel over turtle nests

September 23rd, 2015 By Bejay Browne THE PAPHOS Green Party has hit out at a five-star hotel in Latchi saying it was violating strict operation regulations which are in place to protect the nesting grounds of endangered turtles, an accusation which the hotel denies. The Anassa hotel is set above a turtle nesting beach in Paphos, and according to Paphos...
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