Eastern Macedonia and Thrace

A man who worked as a doctor at a hospital in Kavala, northern Greece, for 17 years was removed from his post after it was discovered that he didn't have the proper medial qualifications.

The man was assigned a position in the hospital's pathology department in February 2001. 

The people of Samothraki are still trying to put their lives in order, clear the rubble from their businesses and houses.

The damages that the island sustained from the extremely heavy rainfall all through Monday night had its toll on the properties of everyone there and on the infrastructure of the island.

Every year at Passover, Jacob Cohen leaves his home in Drama and heads to Thessaloniki to celebrate the holiday and attend services at a synagogue. Jacob is 75 years old and is not only the last living Jew in Drama, but in all of eastern Macedonia and Thrace.

Greek authorities are on alert after weapons and ammunition were found at a Mosque in the city of Xanthi in the eastern Macedonia and Thrace regions in the north of Greece. According to reports by newspaper “Kathimerini”, Greek intelligence officers detected the weapons after receiving tips and proceeded to investigate a Mosque in the village of Iliopetra of the Topiros municipality.

Regional governor of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Giorgos Pavlidis died of cancer early on Thursday, local media reported. He was 60 years old.

Pavlidis was a lawyer who also served as Prefect of Xanthi from 1998 to 2010.

A significant oil reserve in the Patraikos Gulf near Patra, on a par with that at Prinos off Thasos island, has been confirmed by a study of seismic surveys conducted by Hellenic Petroleum, which is about to be completed in the coming weeks in London.

Schools on the northern Aegean island of Thasos opened a week late on Tuesday.

The beginning of the new school year had been delayed because local authorities have been repairing widespread damage caused by a fire that burned for three days earlier this month.

Municipal authorities on Thasos on Friday started cleaning up the burned trees and debris left by a fire that burned for three days on the northern Aegean island, destroying farmland, forests and homes and injuring five firemen.

Local authorities are keen to complete the cleanup to avoid flooding when it rains.

A wildfire that has engulfed parts of the Greek island of Thasos and left five firemen injured, raged for a third day Monday, burning through some 10,000 hectares of forest.

The fire, which is believed to have been sparked by lightning on Friday evening, has also destroyed at least eight homes and dozens of farm buildings, while hundreds of livestock died from smoke inhalation.

The Louvre Museum has agreed to the reproduction of one of its most prized posessions – the Nike of Samothrace (Winged Victory of Samothrace). Two replicas will be made following the initiative of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Prefect George Pavlidis who stressed the statue’s significance to the cultural heritage of Samothrace.