Paphos promoted at tourism workshops and presentations in Baltic States
AS part of ongoing efforts to increase visitor numbers to Paphos, the district will be promoted at a number or tourism workshops and presentations in the capital cities of Lithuania, Estonia and...
View ArticleKamares Festival promises a great family day out
THE KAMARES festival will be held in Paphos later on this month and will include over fifty stalls selling handmade and imported arts and crafts, according to organisers. Anita Hopkins of, ‘In any...
View ArticleHoliday homes wanted for heroes
A PAPHOS based non-profit organisation which provides holidays for wounded servicemen and women is appealing to the public for help, as they are desperately short of accommodation for June, July and...
View Article166 Turkish Cypriots in Paphos cast votes
A total of 166 Turkish Cypriots voted in the Paphos district at various polling stations, according to Paphos District Officer Mary Lambrou. The Turkish Cypriots who reside in Paphos and the Mouttalos...
View ArticleVoter turnout highest in Paphos (updated)
Voter turnout on Sunday was highest in Paphos with 72.31 per cent going to the polls, while the island wide figure was 67.37 per cent. According to Paphos district officer Mary Lambrou, of the...
View ArticleRestaurant review: Grazie, Paphos
I am so grateful that Grazie is here in Paphos, for it is the epitome of the bourgeois cosmopolitan restaurant, a place one will keep thinking about returning to because it’s so civilised, for it does...
View ArticleGreen Dot called to immediately resume collections in Paphos
THE Environment Department has called on Green Dot Cyprus to immediately recommence the collection of recyclable waste in Paphos. In a letter to Green Dot, made public on Thursday, the department’s...
View ArticleGreen Dot to resume collections
Green Dot Cyprus will begin collecting recyclable waste in Paphos after months of standoff, the company announced on Friday. Following a meeting between Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyalis, Chairman of...
View ArticleWoman injured in home gas explosion in Paphos (Update)
A woman was injured, but not seriously, and her home in Anarita, Paphos partly destroyed in a gas explosion on Friday morning. At 6.30am, a gas cylinder in the kitchen exploded and destroyed a big part...
View Article‘Four years and five months later…’ [VIDEO]
JUST AS the tourism season gets underway, yet another new deadline has been set for completion of the beleaguered Tombs of the Kings Road in Paphos. The ongoing works are finally due to be completed by...
View ArticleGirl,13, slightly injured in hit and run on Tombs of the Kings Avenue
A 13-year-old girl was slightly injured on Saturday night in a hit and run on Tombs of the Kings Avenue in Paphos. According to police the incident happened at 8.10pm when the girl was crossing the...
View ArticleHonouring the past with the present: Yeronisos boat race
The second Paphos ‘Yeronisos celebration – round the island boat race’ takes place on Thursday at Mandoulis Beach, Ayios Georgios Harbour, Pegeia. This year the event is part of the programme of events...
View ArticlePaphos Bar Street ‘slum’ clean up
BULLDOZERS and other machinery moved into the main tourist strip of Paphos on Monday morning to commence a massive clean-up of the area which has seen a steady decline in business over the last decade....
View ArticleHelicopters used to fight Paphos fires
Firefighters are trying to bring under control two fires raging around villages in the Paphos area. Two helicopters, one airplane and eight fire engines are being put to use in the fight to put out a...
View ArticleFires put out in Paphos
Two fires in the same area of Paphos burned three hectares of pine forest and wild shrub, officials said on Tuesday. The fires broke out at around 1.30pm, one in Kannaviou, near the reservoir, and one...
View ArticleMunicipal bath in Paphos awarded 20 year Blue Flag certificate
PAPHOS municipality has again been awarded blue flag status for all six of its beaches this year, much to the delight of the head of the beaches committee. Nicos Simillides told the Cyprus Mail that he...
View ArticleWoman burns to death
A 75-year-old woman from Paphos apparently burned to death on Wednesday while burning dry shrub in her field. The incident happened at around 8.20am in Yiolou, in the Profitis Elias area. In an effort...
View ArticlePaphos beaches facing raft of problems, spats, complaints
COMPLAINTS from beach goers have been directed at Paphos municipality after they recently tore down a kiosk servicing a popular beach in Kato Paphos, as they said the structure was illegal. “We were...
View ArticleTwo ancient tombs uncovered in Kato Paphos
Work to clean up Kato Paphos was bought to a grinding halt on Thursday morning after the discovery of two ancient tombs in the heart of the area. Paphos municipality employees were carrying out work to...
View Article18th Paphos Aphrodite festival announces Don Giovanni
THE 18th ‘Pafos Aphrodite Festival’ will presents Mozart’s popular opera Don Giovanni at the medieval castle in Kato Paphos in September it has been announced. Performances will take place on...
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