
Tourism stakeholders in Paphos are concerned about the damage drunk tourists may cause to their town as a tourist destination.
The latest incident occurred over the weekend, when a a foreign tourist broke a TV at a local pub. He was later arrested at Paphos airport.
Tourism stakeholders told Phileleftheros newspaper that for decades Paphos has enjoyed a good reputation among visitors, free of brawls and public disturbance.
They said that even though the handful of incidents in recent months were isolated, they sent a bad message to tourist operators and potential visitors, and therefore needed to be tackled at their root.
The government said on Thursday it was in contact with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) regarding recent tensions in the Strovilia area, where the Turkish military is said to have further advanced its position, in violation of the status quo around the buffer zone.
The Limassol district land registry is operating like a free-for-all, with staff frequently covering for one another by punching in coworkers’ cards – the most glaring case occurring recently where an employee punched in for a colleague who, unknown to him at the time, had died the night before.
Today the British High Commission in Nicosia announced that they were going to hold a live Facebook QA session on Wednesday 27th February at 17:00 (Cyprus Time)
Parts of a three-kilometre stretch of the old road from Limassol to Paphos near Petra tou Romiou will be closed for three months, from February 21 until May 21, due to a serious problem with erosion, police announced on Wednesday.
The road will be closed to traffic for about 200 metres at a time. Access from Paphos to Pissouri and Limassol will only be possible via the motorway.