Fire drill at Vasiliko cement plant
The fire brigade will hold a fire and rescue exercise at the Vasiliko cement works premises near the fire station on Thursday, December 11, at 9am.
Part of its educational activities ...
Exercise tests power plant’s security against terrorist attack
The Vasiliko power plant’s capacity to withstand a terrorist attack was put to the test on Tuesday through the Triton 2024 exercise, involving the ports authority, the police, the fire ...
€16.7m road network in Vasilikos energy and industrial area inaugurated
Transport and Energy Ministers Alexis Vafeades and George Papanastasiou on Friday inaugurated the road network of the Vasilikos energy and industrial area, built at a cost of €16.7 million.
Vafeades hailed ...
Cement factory donates land for conservation, a first for the island
Vassiliko Cement Works donated four plots of land, amounting to an area of around 45,000 square metres, to environmental NGO Terra Cypria on Friday.
The land, which falls within a Natura 2000 ...
Vasiliko communities meet with Kadis after stepping up protests (Update 2)
The nine communities around Vasiliko continued to vehemently oppose the relocation of asphalt plants to the area during a meeting on Wednesday with Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis, which came after ...
Vasiliko residents’ anger understandable says minister
The anger of residents near Vasiliko, after a tyre fire in the area at the weekend, is ‘completely understandable’, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Tuesday.
Speaking on Trito radio, ...
Huge quantities of dangerous used tyres left unprocessed
The Audit Office on Wednesday said the company being paid to process massive quantities of used car tyres is failing to do so
In a report, the Audit Office said ...