Renowned Greek American therapist leads International film festival work shop
A MASTERCLASS with renowned holistic therapist and energy healer Greek American, Thalia Alexiou, will take place in Paphos on Wednesday, on the side lines of the eleventh Cyprus International Film...
View ArticleWorld’s largest residential ship visits Paphos
The world’s largest private residential ship aptly named The World, moored off Paphos on Monday and will stay until Tuesday evening. The World, a 644-foot vessel, has 165 individual residences for...
View ArticlePensioner calls off hunger strike after Hasikos assurances
Demetris Constantinou, 65, a resident of Chlorakas on Tuesday began an indefinite hunger strike outside a Paphos school because he said the government owes him hundreds of thousands of euros for land...
View ArticleTen years for cocaine possession with intent to supply
A 39-year-old father of five was jailed for 10 years by the Paphos Criminal Court after he was found guilty of possession cocaine with intent to supply, as well as possession of substances used to cut...
View ArticleFormer municipal councillor cops to tax dodging but not bribery
Although he left some revenues out of his tax returns, he was never bribed, former Paphos municipal councillor Giorgos Michaelides told the court on Wednesday. Michaelides, one of five defendants, is...
View ArticlePaphos man arrested for obtaining money under false pretences
Paphos court Thursday set October 3 for hearing a case against a 53-year-old man from Paphos arrested earlier in the day in connection with obtaining money under false pretences, theft, money...
View ArticleOpen air crochet installation for peace
FOLLOWING on from the success of their first crochet art installation in Paphos in August, a group of Cypriot women will decorate an ancient tree with hand crocheted pieces on Friday afternoon. Members...
View ArticleCounterfeit bags and clothes seized in Paphos
A total of 7,462 counterfeit designer goods were seized by the Paphos customs department on Thursday. Aided by police, the department searched six shops and warehouses and found a total of 7,462 bags,...
View ArticleCannabis arrests in Limassol and Paphos
Police arrested four young people, three in Limassol and one in Paphos, for various offences, mainly cannabis on Saturday evening. In Limassol officers said two people aged 18 and 20 were arrested...
View ArticlePolice car has tyres slashed in Latchi
Paphos police had all four tyres slashed on a patrol car in Latchi in the early hours of Sunday. According to police the car was parked on Akamantidos Avenue in the village and the vandalism was...
View ArticleBondholders say that without dynamic actions ‘we will not win our fight’
Bondholders who lost money during Cyprus’ banking crisis said on Sunday they would step up measures for compensation but called off a mass protest planned outside the finance ministry in Nicosia until...
View ArticleRemand for attempted murder suspect (Update)
A 32-year-old was remanded by Paphos court Monday in connection with hitting another man with his car on Sunday morning in Polis, which police are describing as attempted murder. Investigating...
View ArticleMan who fled accident scene arrested in Paphos
An 18-year-old man from Paphos who had fled some two weeks ago leaving his car and co-passenger behind after crashing into a police vehicle, was arrested Tuesday night. The man was located in an...
View ArticlePaphos fire under control
A raging fire in Paphos was quickly brought under control by fire services at lunchtime on Wednesday, according to a fire brigade spokesman. The blaze started in an area between Akoursos and Peyia...
View ArticleDriver five times over the limit arrested after accident
A 40-year-old man from Bulgaria was arrested on Tuesday in Paralimni after crashing his vehicle into another car after having consumed almost five times the permitted alcohol level. According to the...
View ArticlePensioner killed in road crash
An 81-year-old man was killed on Thursday evening when his car collided with another along the Paphos-Stroumbi road. According to the police, the accident happened shortly after 7pm. The 81-year-old,...
View ArticlePaphos cancer unit stays open but treatment patchy
REPORTS that the oncology unit at Paphos general hospital had been closed due to lack of staff have been quashed by hospital director who told the Sunday Mail the closure had only been temporary. “It...
View ArticleFire in Marathounda almost under control
A fire that broke out in the area of Marathounda in Paphos on Sunday was almost under control at midday, the fire service said. So far the fire gas burned around two hectares of wild vegetation. The...
View ArticleNew sculpture drawing attention in Paphos
A SECOND sculpture by a Paphos based artist is drawing admiration and praise from passers-by and is part of an ongoing project for the town’s winning bid as European Capital of Culture 2017. “The...
View ArticleDefendants in waste management scandal trial plead not guilty
The 16 defendants in the case of alleged bribery and overcharging at the waste-management plants at Paphos and Koshi, Larnaca, pleaded not guilty on Monday, with the trial scheduled to resume in...
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