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The Paphos regional tourism board (Etap) announced that a delegation travelled to Israel this week in order to promote the district as a travel destination, particularly in the context of Paphos...
View ArticleMan charged with betting agency fraud
Police on Monday arrested a suspect in a case of securing credit with false representation. According to police spokesman and head of Paphos CID Michalis Nicolaou, on Friday night police received a...
View ArticlePaphos hotel workers down tools after agreed rises not given
Workers at a specific Paphos hotel held an impromptu strike on Monday morning over the alleged refusal of hoteliers in the district to pay them 50 per cent of the cost of living allowance and violating...
View ArticleTwo suspects arrested for stealing doors in Paphos
Police in Paphos on Monday arrested two suspects for a case of aluminium theft under investigation. The crime was brought to the attention of the police on February 13 when a resident reported that...
View ArticleRestaurant review: The Mansion of Stavroula, Paphos
By Sarah Coyne The name, The Mansion of Stavroula, certainly creates high expectations of a grand property. However, this restaurant in Konia doesn’t quite live up to its name regarding bricks and...
View ArticleBig drugs bust in Paphos
Police on Thursday seized around 22 kilograms of cannabis, 400 grams of cocaine, a gun and a large sum of money exceeding €50,000 in a large-scale operation carried out in cooperation with the Ykan...
View ArticleWeekly ‘meet the locals’ walking tour in Paphos
Weekly free tours titled “meet the locals” are to take place in Paphos old town during March and April. A licensed tour guide will take visitors to key points of interest in the costal city such as the...
View ArticleSuspects remanded in Paphos drug bust
Police remanded six people for eight days in Paphos, following a drug bust earlier in the week, authorities said. According to police, the Paphos court on Saturday issued an eight-day remand for four...
View ArticlePaphos hotels’ occupancy at 35 per cent in March, says the district’s Hotels...
The occupancy of hotels in the Paphos district is expected to reach 35 per cent in March, President of the Paphos Hotels Association, Thanos Michaelides said on Sunday. In statements to CNA,...
View ArticleSeven injured in Paphos road accident
Seven people, including five children, were injured in a traffic accident in Paphos on Monday afternoon. According to police statement around 6pm a 45-year-old driver on the road from Kelokedari to...
View ArticleTwo men arrested for illegal knife possession
Police in Paphos arrested two men for illegal knife possession and transportation on Sunday. According to police spokesperson, Michalis Nikolaou, shortly after midnight traffic police stopped a vehicle...
View ArticleMan remanded on suspicion of theft
A man in Paphos was remanded for three days on Tuesday after being arrested last week for allegedly stealing various items from a supermarket in town on different occasions. According to Paphos police...
View ArticleCourt rules municipal employee can’t be forced to visit doctor
The Paphos administrative court has ruled in favour of a female employee at the municipality, who was forced by the mayor to take a leave of absence due to her being unable to perform her duties....
View ArticleTwo arrested for drug driving in Paphos
Paphos police found illegal drugs in the possession of a 22-year-old driver who tested positive in a narcotest, they announced on Friday. The man was stopped during a traffic check on Thursday...
View ArticleErratic driver sent for psychiatric treatment after six injured
Six people were injured in a traffic accident on Sunday in Paphos. According to police spokesman Michalis Ioannou, around 1.45pm, a 23-year-old driver collided with the car in front of him on Democracy...
View ArticlePaphos municipalities pleased with wedding tourism reboot
Paphos municipalities on Tuesday expressed satisfaction on the post-pandemic reboot of the wedding tourism industry. The tourist niche of civil weddings has in the past proven to be a particularly...
View ArticleWoman dies in fall at Petra tou Romiou (Update 2)
A 28-year-old woman was found dead at the Petra tou Romiou site in Paphos on Saturday morning. Officers were alerted to the scene where she was later identified as a Ukrainian national who is a...
View ArticleNew Bishop of Paphos enthroned
The enthronement of new Bishop of Paphos Tychikos took place at the Ayios Theodoros church in Paphos on Sunday afternoon. Present at the ceremony were members of the Holy Synod, city leaders, clergy...
View ArticlePolice bust offenders in possession of 96,000 illegal firecrackers
Paphos court remanded for four days three people over the illegal possession of over 96,000 firecrackers. Police arrested the three after uncovering a stash of 96,140 firecrackers in a wooded area of...
View ArticleSecond autopsy carried out on Ukrainian woman
The second postmortem on the body of 28-year-old Lesya Bykova, who was found dead on Saturday near Petra tou Romiou, was completed on Wednesday, with officials saying no statements would be made for...
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