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Coronavirus: Limassol market reopens after lockdown
Limassol’s open market began operating again on Saturday for the first time since the lockdown measures were enforced. “There is order, safety, calm and people are shopping,” Limassol Mayor Nicos...
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Coronavirus: Limassol cancels Kataklysmos festivities, Wine Festival to go ahead
All Pentecost (Kataklysmos) celebrations in Limassol have been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus situation, the city’s municipality said on Monday. The festival of the flood marks 50 days after...
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Shopkeepers oppose new road works in Limassol
Works to construct a traffic island on Limassol’s Nicos and Despina Pattichi street are set to begin in June but shopkeepers and residents have already said they will put a stop to the works if the...
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Decomposed body found in Limassol warehouse
A decomposed body was found in a warehouse in Limassol on Friday afternoon, reports said. The warehouse is located on Nicos Georgiou Street. A state pathologist is examining the scene, as initial...
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Government spokesman questions treatment of religious sites in north after...
Ankara’s overexposure of the vandalism at Koprulu mosque in Limassol raises the question of how the Christian religious monuments are being treated in the north, Government Spokesman Kyriacos Kousios...
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Explosion damages shop in Limassol
An explosive device detonated at the entrance of a shop in Limassol early on Thursday. The explosion happened at 1.45am. Police officers who rushed to the scene found it was caused by an improvised...
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Limassol entertainment businesses call for state help
A group of Limassol-based owners of clubs and other businesses offering dancing and music entertainment that still do not know when they can reopen on Tuesday called on authorities for financial...
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Limassol shop owners and residents to stage protest over road works
Shop owners and residents of Nicos and Despina Pattichi street in Limassol who are against the construction of a central traffic island will stage a protest at the transport ministry on Friday, armed...
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MPs call for development of Lady’s Mile
MPs from Limassol complained to the government on Tuesday over stalled plans to develop the western part of the coastal city, particularly the stretch know as Lady’s Mile. Lawmakers were vexed to learn...
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Woman brutally attacked and robbed in her Limassol home (Update)
A 66-year-old woman is in hospital in critical condition with head and body injuries after being attacked and robbed by two men in her Limassol apartment on Sunday morning. The incident took place at...
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Neglected Lady’s Mile waiting 15 years for upgrade
Inaction over improving a popular Limassol beach in an environmentally sensitive area is doing more harm than good By Andria Kades A plan to make Lady’s Mile beach in Limassol more accessible to the...
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Suggestion floated to rename Limassol’s coastal road in honour of Glafcos...
Ruling Disy’s Limassol branch on Friday welcomed the suggestion by the party’s municipal council group to rename a street in the coastal town in honour of former President Glafcos Clerides. Disy, which...
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Limassol church badly damaged in fire (Updated)
By Constantinos Iacovides and Evie Andreou The 18th century Ayios Mamas village church was badly damaged after a fire caused by a lit candle broke out on Thursday afternoon and again early Friday...
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Limassol shop owners block section of road in traffic island dispute
Shop owners on Nicos and Despina Pattichi Street in Limassol blocked off a section of the road on Saturday as a mark of protest after their alternative proposals was rejected. The main issue of...
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Coronavirus: Scientists say situation in Limassol ‘extremely worrying’
Virologists have said the situation in Limassol is ‘extremely worrying’ after a cluster of cases has surfaced there. Five cases were identified on Saturday which were contacts of people who tested...
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Coronavirus: ‘Restoring restrictive measures the last resort and we must all...
Following the recent domestic incidents of Covid-19 identified in Limassol, especially the five employees at Wagamama in Limassol Marina, the health ministry on Sunday urged people to be cautious when...
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Coronavirus: Limassol mayor ‘doesn’t want to talk about local lockdown’...
A mobile unit in Limassol will increase the number of tests carried out there in restaurants, virologist Dr Leontios Kostrikis said on Monday, as the city’s mayor said a localised lockdown was...
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Fifth fish for recycling placed on Cyprus beach
The ceremony to install the second ‘recycling fish’ of Limassol, a work of art to encourage recycling, took place in Ayios Tychonas on Friday, it was announced on Monday. “The incomparably beautiful...
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First results of tests in Limassol expected on Friday, says mayor
About 300 Limassol residents have already been tested for coronavirus in the two mobile units at Gregori Afxentiou square in front of the Limassol district office and in Molos set up after a spike in...
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Twenty-six Covid-19 cases announced on Sunday (Update)
The health ministry on Sunday announced that 26 coronavirus cases were detected, including the 15 announced earlier in the day. Eleven of the new cases were detected on Sunday among 1,977 lab tests....
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