Service Rhodes style: A video shows a waiter carrying a tray with snacks and wading above his waist into the water, to serve customers on platforms built above the sea. He struggles to reach the spoiled sun-worshipers on floating platforms went vital, triggering reaction not only among Greek social media …

A day touristic boat with 82 people on board caught fire in Stegna, off Rhodes on Thursday and was completely destroyed. Many passengers jumped into the sea to escape the flames and the thick smoke and swam to the nearest beach, while others were collected by boats that rushed to …

Police on the island of Rhodes arrested 23-year-old local man  who is accused of the rape of a 20-year-old Irish woman in Faliraki on Monday. The 23-year-old was arrested on Wednesday noon by police officers who were handling the case, after the complaint of the young tourist. According to what …

Police on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes arrested the owners of two beach-side restaurants on Monday as part of an ongoing crackdown on rampant zoning and environmental violations across the Greek isles. The two owners, aged 49 and 72 years old, both run restaurants on Ialysos Beach, a popular …

A 26-year-old tourist from Great Britain was struck and killed by a lightning, while he was swimming on the island of Rhodes early afternoon Monday. The man was in the sea area of Agia Agatha and incident occurred short before 2 o’ clock During the rain the young tourist was …

The first charter flight arrived on Saturday at the “Diagoras” airport of Rhodes, bringing the first tourists of the season to the island, kicking off the tourism season 2023.. The first international flight from Luton airport in London landed on the island short before 12 noon and the plane was …

Greece’s Geodynamics Institute of the National Observatory of Athens corrected the magnitude of the earthquake off the island of Rhodes to 5.9 on the richter scale, from 5.7R initially. The earthquake recorded at 14:37 in the sea southeast of Lindos on Rhodes raised concern among the residents but no damages …

Rhodes welcomed its first cruise ship of the year on Sunday, January 1, 2023. MSC’s ‘Lirica’ brought 1,787 tourists to the popular island in the south-eastern Aegean Sea. The passengers were welcomed at the island at 10:00 a.m. with a brief ceremony onboard the cruise ship for the exchange of …

The tragedy on the island of Rhodes, where a caregiver killed an elderly bed-ridden woman took an unexpected turn on Monday afternoons when she told police that she had killed to more elderly she was taking care of and had attempted to also kill her infant child. Monday morning the …

Τhe spokesman of Turkey ‘s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party condemned Greece over its “barbaric” treatment of the cultural legacy of the Ottoman Empire over alleged plans by authorities on the island of Rhodes to turn the Mosque of Murat Reis into a conservatory. “Greek authorities’ systematic policy …

Greece’s Civil Protection sent a message via emergency line 112 on Saturday evening to the residents of the islands of Karpathos, Kasos, Rhodes, Halki and Kastellorizo. The message warns citizens of possible dangerous weather phenomena in the next 24 hours in their area and calls on them to avoid unnecessary …

Two hotel owners alleged to be involved in a human trafficking ring that brought migrants from Turkey to Greece were arrested on Friday by Police on the island of Rhodes, with the assistance of the Protection of the Sea Borders Security Directorate, the police of the Dodecanese and the EUROPOL. …

A man missing on the island of Rhodes since end of August was found dead on Tuesday morning.  Police arrested two Greek men. The missing man was murdered by a local hotelier in possible cooperation with his son. The 46-year-old contractor of Albanian origin, Tzani Topali, father of three minor …

Rhodes expects to have tourists in the island’s hotels right up to November 15, with relatively high occupancy rates, Rhodes municipal councilor Thanassis Vyrinis told state-run news agency amna on Sunday.  He expressed satisfaction with the tourism season on the island so far, stressing it broke all previous records. Vyrinis …

A tragedy is unfolding off Rhodes where dozens of people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank 38 nautical miles south of the island in the eastern Aegean Sea. So far, 29 people have been rescued, another 50 are missing. A Search and Rescue operation was launched by the …

Τhree foreign tourists stole a big Greek flag from its mast on a castle and wrote anti-Greek slogans. They were arrested by the authorities on the island of Rhodes. The three Dutch tourists in their early 20’s told authorities that they were drunk and did not understand what they were …

A diver on the island of Rhodes managed to bring a sea turtle back to life with mouth-to-mouth respiration. His efforts that lasted hours resulted success and the sea turtle returned to its natural habitat. The unprecedented incident took place at the beach of Gennadi when the sea turtle was …

An earthquake shook the island of Rhodes with a magnidute of 4.7 on the Richter scale at 6:48 early Friday evening. The earthquake epicenter was located in the sea areas 16 km West-South-West of Katavia and its focal depth was 17.5 km. The tremor was felt in the south of …

The Greek Coast Guard successfully carried out a search and rescue operation with two of its vessels north-east off the island of Rhodes on Sunday, rescuing 21 migrants from a sinking dinghy. Adverse weather conditions were in the area during the SAR operation, with winds blowing with intensity of 6 …

A gold sealing ring from the Mycenaean times, depicting a pair of sphinxes, was returned to Greece by the Nobel Foundation, in a ceremony held on Thursday, May 19 in Stockholm, the Culture Ministry in Athens announced. The ring was found in 1927, during the excavations of the Italian Archaeological …