Creditors play down fears of Greek default as deadline approaches
The Greek finance Yanis Varoufakis urged creditors on Tuesday to ‘get their act together’ if they want Greece to repay its June IMF loan. And […]
Articles by Yannis X
Spring storms cause disruption across Chania prefecture – Unsettled weather with storms till Friday
Sudden downpours in the late afternoon brought traffic chaos in Chania with a number of minor accidents during the afternoon rush causing bottlenecks in the […]
Government to abolish antiquated way of calculating car taxes
The first tax reform of the new government is about to bring to parliament will change the way the road tax is calculated. Since the […]
Paul Krugman: Grexit and the morning after
(New York Times) We just had another electoral earthquake in the euro area: Podemos-backed candidates have won local elections in Madrid and Barcelona. And I […]
Kalyves – return to ‘normality’ after roadworks
Today Friday, Kalyves is expected to return to normality after the completion of road resurfacing and repairs to the sewage network that obstructed the only […]
Crisis, weaker euro, make Greece ideal destination for British – Daily Mail
(Daily Mail) Greece’s financial instability shouldn’t discourage British potential visitors to the troubled nation – in fact, the weak Euro could make those travelling on […]
Cluster of small earthquakes hit South Crete
A cluster of small earthquakes hit the south of Crete on Monday evening. Two of the tremors (4.4R at 20:41 and 4.0R at 23:14) were […]
Greece under siege – the strategy of financial strangulation to force a government surrender instead of Grexit
(The Guardian comment – by Anatole Kaletsky ) Since coming to power in January, the Greek government, led by the prime minister, Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza […]
Forestry re issues restrictions on picking wild herbs to prevent extinction
Last week the forestry service of Chania issued another notice reminding the public of the restrictions placed on gathering wild herbs. The order, originally issued […]
4.4 earthquake 106 KM south east of Agios Nikolaos
Another earthquake was felt in Eastern Crete at 7:08 this morning. It registered 4.4R with its epicentre 106 km SE of Agios Nikolaos and with […]
FB Lato on its way to the scrapyard
ANEK lines FB Lato was towed out of Souda port yesterday, on its way to the Perama Shipyards. Lato was decommissioned in Febrouaty 2014 and […]
Tourist bus drivers on strike over pay and conditions
The association of Cretan tourist bus drivers ‘Hermes’ have started their strike this morning. Their action will mean that passengers arriving at Heraklion airport heading […]
Blue Flag awards – Crete comes top for another year
The Hellenic Society for the Protection of Nature (EEPF), the national operator of the international Blue Flag program, on Wednesday announced the 395 beaches (down […]
Emergency services rescue 70 walkers trapped by flash flood at Samaria gorge
A huge rescue operation at Samaria Gorge was successfully completed yesterday, when around 70 walkers got trapped at various points of the 16 km gorge […]
Two earthquakes over 4R hit Crete in the last 12 hours
A series of earthquakes shook east Crete over the last 12 hours. Just after midnight a 4.3R under the sea south of Heraklion was felt […]