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A national coordination meeting in Cyprus, led by the new fire and civil defence chief, revealed deficiencies in the country's preparedness for forest fires despite assurances of readiness for the upcoming season.
The now former civil defence chief Maria Papa left her post and took up a position at the audit office for purely administrative reasons, the Cyprus News Agency quoted sources as having said on Friday. The sources said that her secondment was “not a last-minute development”, but instead, “something which had been underway for days”, […]
Cyprus’s mass public notification system for crises will be completed by early June, Civil Defence Commander Maria Papa said on Thursday, promising “a perfected system for timely and accurate information.” Speaking after a meeting with DIKO president Nikolas Papadopoulos, Papa said Cyprus was at “a very good level of readiness” but acknowledged that “there are […]