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With 44 passengers the Word Explorer arrived in Zakynthos. Earlier this morning the cruise ship Word Explorer made an unexpected visit to the island. Coming from Corfu it was meant to have flocked in Kefalonia but due to the weather conditions yesterday the captain decided it was safer to dock …

Summer-Greek-wine Music by Lee Hazlewood adaptation-Giannis Psimadas Saying goodbye to the harvest of September Giannis Psimadas tributes our Island, Zakynthos.  The video was shot under the August sun when the vineyards were bursting with this year’s new wine grapes. The video not only captures the beautiful landscape of Zakynthos but …

The weather is changing as from Monday afternoon (12-10-2020) until Tuesday afternoon (13-10-2020), according to the emergency bulletin issued by the National Meteorological Service. The bad weather in the country will “hit” from the west, with the main characteristics of heavy rains and storms accompanied by hail and stormy south …

Zakynthos Historical Choir of “Faneromeni”, in defiance of the times but also due to the fire that marked the area of ​​the Shipwreck, sang today at noon on the famous beach, promoting our island in the best way possible. The island of kantathas, arekia, Solomos, Kalvos, Xenopoulos, Lagios and so …

All 32 students from the primary school negative for Covid-19. In an announcement on his personal social media page the Deputy Mayor of Alykes and the Deputy mayor and Head of Education Mr Nikitas Spinos made it known that tests had been carried out on all of the 32 children …

Zakynthos to re-open for British tourist market. After the British government removing Zakynthos from their quarantine list the tour operators were quick to restart the market. Zakynthos will have flights from British Airways, Easy Jet and TUI as quoted in the report. However, Zakynthos Informer has been told only TUI …

D Aktipis- “the way is open for the hospital to receive a new digital mammograph machine” A pre election commitment by Dionysios Aktipis the Zakynthian Member of Parliament will become a reality. The way is open for the hospital to receive a new digital mammograph machine. Mr Aktipis stared” by …

A 35 year old foreigner was found dead in Akrotiri- he had been trying to break into a villa A 35 year old Albanian was found a short time ago by the caretaker of a villa in Akrotiri. The man had been repeatedly known to the police for burglary and …

Today we announce 436 new cases of the new virus in the country, of which 65 are associated with known outbreaks and 17 were detected following checks at the country’s gateways. The total number of cases is 21381, of which 55.8% are men. 3170 (14.8%) are considered related to travel …

This morning the British Honorary Vice Consul, Mr Matthew Delapp talked with local radio announcer, Bobby Gee in regards to World Mental Health Day.   The discussion on Bobby Gee’s breakfast show 88.6 Island Fm Zakynthos, was about how to make people aware of the day and try to promote …