Kalamata

Greek and foreign airlines are investing even more this year in the strong prospects of Greek tourism, as well as of Athens International Airport.

The first hotel unit in the Costa Navarino complex will this year open its doors even earlier than in previous years - i.e. on February 18 - followed by the other three units that TEMES has developed in Messinia, in the Peloponnese.

Three people, including a 15-year-old girl, died in less than 12 hours in two traffic accidents in different parts of the country.

The first deadly incident took place late on Monday night on the Methoni-Pylos road in the southwestern Peloponnese and involved a car, which was being driven by a 31-year-old man, crashing into the metal protection railing and a tree.

A Hellenic Air Force pilot, 40-year-old Epameinondas Kosteas, who lost his life in a crash involving his T-2 Buckeye training jet near Kalamata airbase in the Peloponnese, was laid to rest on Friday. 

The funeral took place in the village of Megali Mantineia, Messinia, in the southwestern Peloponnese.

A search-and-rescue operation was initiated on Wednesday following the crash of a Hellenic Air Force T-2 Buckeye training jet near the Kalamata airbase in the Peloponnese. The pilot's condition is currently unknown.

Reports suggest that an explosion was heard before the crash.

Further details are not yet available.

Two men, aged 63 and 34, have been arrested in the southern Peloponnese city of Kalamata for the illicit possession and trafficking of drugs and weapons, authorities said on Monday.

Workfromgreece.gr, an initiative of Marketing Greece, carried out a series of actions over the last few weeks in Athens, Paros, Evia, Hania, Kalamata and Syros, with the aim of attracting the interest of digital nomads and remote workers to Greek destinations, as well as to hold a discussion with local tourism communities about the phenomenon of digital nomads.

Police in Messenia, in the southern Peloponnese, arrested a 14-year-old schoolboy on Friday after he stabbed a fellow student with a pocket knife in the school yard.

Police were called to the school after teachers reported that the 3rd grade middle school student had got into a row with another student for an unknown reason and stabbed him in the the right thigh.

Petros Themelis, one of the most prominent Greek archaeologists who headed the excavation and restoration of the vast site of Ancient Messene since 1987 has died, aged 87. 

He spent his last few days in the ICU of the hospital in Kalamata.

Themelis was born in 1936 in Thessaloniki and studied at the Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' visit to Kalamata, SW Peloponnese, scheduled for Friday will be postponed due to the fire emergency in Greece.

In addition, the premier will not be attending the International Conference on Migration and Development in Rome, scheduled on Sunday (July 23).