Fire burns cane field in Goudi
A fire broke out near Goudi in the Paphos district on Friday, burning a large area of cane. Fire department spokesman Andreas Kettis said on X that two fire trucks from Polis Chrysochous and Stroumbi...
View ArticleFour remanded over attack on Paphos volleyball players
Four men were remanded over the alleged attack against five players of the Paphos volleyball team Paphiakos before Paphos Court on Monday afternoon. The suspects, two aged 21, a 23-year-old and a...
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Paphos-based women’s chorus wins bronze at Dutch barbershop contest
Paphos-based women’s group the Spellbound Chorus won a bronze medal at this year’s Holland Harmony barbershop convention, which was held in the town of Apeldoorn in the southeastern Dutch province of...
View ArticleBlood donation event held in memory of Cypriot Tempi train crash victim
A blood donation event was held in Paphos on Sunday in memory of Anastasia Adamidou, who was one of 57 people killed in a train crash in February 2023 between the Greek villages of Tempi and...
View ArticlePaphos man arrested for taking firecrackers, smoke bombs to football match
A 23-year-old man was arrested in Paphos after being found by police to have been attempting to take a bag full of firecrackers and smoke bombs into the town’s Stelios Kyriakides Stadium ahead of the...
View ArticlePaphos castle to close temporarily in May
The Paphos castle will close for maintenance works, from Monday 5 to 16. The Department of Antiquities announced on Tuesday that during the first few weeks of May the castle will close due to...
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Bases police and Paphos raise thousands for cancer support
The annual Christodoula March at the British bases has raised €15,000 for the Cyprus Anti-Cancer Association, in an event attended by hundreds of participants from 47 communities. The bases announced...
View ArticlePaphos teen arrested over attacks on bystander after car crash
A 17-year-old boy from Paphos was arrested on Thursday night following a series of violent incidents in the nearby village of Emba, which were apparently related to a traffic collision earlier in the...
View ArticleEU ambassadors visit Paphos to honour shared heritage
Ten ambassadors from EU member states visited the Kato Paphos Archaeological Park on Friday, in an initiative led by the Embassy of Poland in Cyprus. The visit aimed to spotlight the cultural heritage...
View ArticleWalking football club in Paphos strong and growing
In 2019, a group of mates in Paphos set up a walking football club to keep fit, meet new people and continue playing football after the age of 50. Today, Pafos United Walking Football Club is still...
View ArticleMan stabs two women in pharmacy in Paphos
A 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in the Paphos district village of Chlorakas on Monday after stabbing two women in a pharmacy. According to the police, the man originates...
View ArticleTeen remanded in Paphos car arson case
The Paphos District Court on Tuesday issued a seven-day remand order against a minor in connection with an ongoing investigation into a suspected arson attack on a car. According to Paphos police...
View ArticlePaphos mayor and bishop at loggerheads over Pontic event
Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos and the town’s bishop Tychikos are at loggerheads over the organisation of an event next month to mark May 19, the day observed by Pontic Greeks as the “day of...
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Kathikas keeps faith alive in Good Friday re-enactment
In the mountain village of Kathikas, the spirit of Good Friday was alive and well this year, as the community once again gathered to witness the re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s walk from the Praetorium...
View ArticleRemand after man at Paphos airport found to have swallowed cocaine
A man arrested at Paphos airport after it emerged he had swallowed cocaine to smuggle it into Cyprus was remanded in police custody for eight days on Saturday by Papos district court. Just before 4pm...
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Turkish Cypriot politician returns grandparents’ photos to their Paphos village
Hulusi Kilim, the secretary-general of bicommunal political party Volt, on Saturday returned photographs of his grandparents to the Paphos district village of Amargeti, the village in which they had...
View ArticleTeen arrested in Paphos for possession of firecrackers
A 16-year-old was arrested in Paphos on Easter Sunday for illegal possession of firecrackers, as part of a nationwide police operation targeting youth delinquency during the Easter holidays. According...
View ArticleMan ‘seriously injured’ in head-on collision in Paphos
A 40-year-old man suffered “serious injuries” after being involved in a head-on road traffic collision in the Paphos district, late on Wednesday night, the police said on Thursday. According to the...
View ArticleResident assaulted at home in Paphos
Police in Paphos are investigating a case of assault causing actual bodily harm and knife possession after a violent incident was reported in the early hours of Wednesday. According to a police...
View ArticleFifth man arrested over attack on Paphos volleyball team
The police on Friday announced that they had made a fifth arrest in connection with an alleged attack on five members of a volleyball team from Paphos outside a nightclub. The man, aged 23 years old,...
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