Posts tagged with "Constantinos Petrides"

Almost 2,500 applications filed for ‘golden visas’ Cyprus

Almost 2,500 applications filed for ‘golden visas’

December 11th, 2018 From May 2013 until August of this year, 2,390 applications were filed by law firms and accounting firms on behalf of foreign nationals seeking Cypriot naturalisation via the citizenship-by-investment scheme, official documents show. The list has been leaked to the media after it was provided to parliament by the interior ministry via...
Extreme weather exercise held as severe weather batters island Cyprus

Extreme weather exercise held as severe weather batters island

December 4th, 2018 Coinciding with thunderstorms and torrential rain which caused damages in much of Cyprus, the ministry of the interior carried out an exercise on dealing with extreme weather on Tuesday morning. Prometheus was organised by the ministry in cooperation with the civil defence involving municipalities, the fire service, police, the met...
Local government reforms plan to be ready in two months Cyprus

Local government reforms plan to be ready in two months

November 30th, 2018 A new proposal on the clustering of municipalities and local government reform is to be ready with the next two months, Interior Minister, Constantinos Petrides, said on Thursday. Following a meeting with the leaders of Disy and Diko, Petrides said successful societies are those with successful local authorities. The leaders of...
Housing schemes in pipeline to deal with skyrocketing rents Cyprus

Housing schemes in pipeline to deal with skyrocketing rents

November 16th, 2018 The interior ministry is expected to announce housing schemes this month to help deal with the rising rents in Cyprus, Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Friday. In statements to CyBC, he added that the ministry was looking to create a policy that offers affordable housing to people, and that he had already been in contact with...
Petrides aims for local government reforms by early 2019 Cyprus

Petrides aims for local government reforms by early 2019

November 15th, 2018 By the beginning of next year, the issue of local government reform should be finalised, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Thursday. "It is now a matter of political will,” the minister said following a meeting with opposition Akel leader Andros Kyprianou whom he briefed on the issue. "We are ready to bridge the...
‘Time is ripe to press on with local government reform’ Cyprus

‘Time is ripe to press on with local government reform’

November 8th, 2018 After many years of parliamentary deliberations and multiple conducted studies, the time is now ripe to press on with a radical reform of Cyprus’ local government structure, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Thursday. “Several studies have been conducted in recent years, which all conclude that the number of Cyprus...
Cabinet approves subsidies for rural SMEs Cyprus

Cabinet approves subsidies for rural SMEs

September 13th, 2018 The cabinet on Thursday approved an interior ministry subsidies scheme to help small and medium businesses in rural areas and rejuvenate the countryside by creating jobs. Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said his ministry would be setting aside €2m for small businesses in the countryside willing to invest between €120,000...
Funds made available for rural development Cyprus

Funds made available for rural development

August 13th, 2018 Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides on Monday announced the allocation of €5m for 115 small projects in 94 mainly highland communities. The projects, expected to be executed by the end of the year, aim at rejuvenating rural areas and helping communities become hubs of tourist, agricultural and environmental development, Petrides...
Exceptional Iranian student received honorary Cypriot citizenship Cyprus

Exceptional Iranian student received honorary Cypriot citizenship

August 10th, 2018 Interior minister Constantinos Petrides granted honorary citizenship to the 16-year-old Iranian student, Datis Amirkalali, on Friday, for high academic achievement. Datis attends a Nicosia private school and is said to be an exceptional student. Since 2015 he has participated annually in the Cyprus Mathematics Competitions and secured...
Cabinet approves ‘new transparency’ for Turkish Cypriot properties Cyprus

Cabinet approves ‘new transparency’ for Turkish Cypriot properties

May 21st, 2018 By Evie Andreou The Cabinet on Monday approved a new, transparent procedure for the distribution and use of Turkish Cypriot properties in the government-controlled areas, scrapping the old system that favoured the few, Interior Minister, Constantinos Petrides said. Speaking to journalists after the cabinet meeting, Petrides said...
New round of talks on local government reform pledged Cyprus

New round of talks on local government reform pledged

May 5th, 2018 Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Saturday that a new round of consultations would be launched on the reform of local government as the existing system is no longer functioning. Speaking at the Pancyprian conference on local government in Pervolia, Larnaca, Petrides said there are currently 30 municipalities and 350...
Appointing beach inspectors a ‘step in the right direction’ Cyprus

Appointing beach inspectors a ‘step in the right direction’

March 27th, 2018 Environment Commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou on Tuesday welcomed the decisions taken during a meeting at the interior ministry aimed at clamping down on beach illegalities. She said the decisions were a step in the right direction. One of the decisions taken was appointing inspectors to monitor and report unauthorised activities by...
Interior minister calls on Paralimni to end unlicensed beach activities Cyprus

Interior minister calls on Paralimni to end unlicensed beach activities

March 24th, 2018 Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides has called on the Paralimni municipality to immediately end any unlicensed activities on the beaches in the area. Petrides spoke with police HQ and the Mayor of Paralimni regarding the matter after a number of excavators have been seen both at Konnos Beach and the beach in Pernera, where they...
Digital invoices to save millions Cyprus

Digital invoices to save millions

January 23rd, 2018 Municipalities are set to lower their billing costs by 65 per cent while the government will save €5 million with the introduction of e-Invoicing by the end of the year, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Tuesday. He presented the start of the ‘Cy e-Invoicing for local authorities’ project, which began at the...
News podcast: Malas to make 50% of Cabinet female if elected Cyprus

News podcast: Malas to make 50% of Cabinet female if elected

January 19th, 2018 The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local news – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week: The Interior Minister outlines plans to regulate, encourage and fund social entrepreneurship; The...
‘Government trying to expedite title deeds problems’ Cyprus

‘Government trying to expedite title deeds problems’

January 16th, 2018 The government is trying to expedite a bill hoping to resolve the “very important” title deeds issue, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Tuesday as he cautioned that it was a complex legal issue that had to be examined thoroughly. Petrides was responding to a written question by Akel MP Giorgos Loucaides regarding the...
Social enterprise: a new way of doing business Cyprus

Social enterprise: a new way of doing business

January 11th, 2018 The cabinet has approved a bill aiming at introducing social enterprise in Cyprus, which has €3.1m in funding from the European Social Fund, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides announced on Thursday. In a press conference, the minister said the idea of social enterprise is a new way of business aimed at offering goods and...
Petrides spat leaves Papadopoulos with egg on his face Elections2018

Petrides spat leaves Papadopoulos with egg on his face

January 9th, 2018 Presidential candidate Nicolas Papadopoulos was again left with egg on his face on Tuesday after it emerged he got his facts wrong concerning the appointment of caretaker interior ministers just prior to national elections. A day earlier, Papadopoulos’ campaign team censured the administration over interior minister Constantinos...
Bill on sale of state land withdrawn Cyprus

Bill on sale of state land withdrawn

November 27th, 2017 The government has pulled a bill that would have granted the cabinet the power to decide the sale of idle state land, interior minister Constantinos Petrides told MPs on Monday. The bill is being nixed after it failed to garner the necessary support in parliament. Petrides made the reveal in the House during a discussion of his...
Bill aims at cutting red tape Cyprus

Bill aims at cutting red tape

November 4th, 2017 With the objective of cutting red tape, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday unveiled a bill designed to make it considerably easier for large developments to secure permits. Implementation of the strategy, however, hinges on the approval of a separate piece of legislation providing for the creation of a junior ministry...
Petrides says new tourism strategy will rely more on controls and regulation  Cyprus

Petrides says new tourism strategy will rely more on controls and regulation 

October 3rd, 2017 Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said the implementation of a comprehensive tourism strategy requires centralised executive powers bestowed on a yet to be established under-secretariat for tourism, which would unify law enforcement, controls and sector regulation and allow the rebranding of Cyprus’ product. Petrides, who was...
European asylum chief on visit to Cyprus Cyprus

European asylum chief on visit to Cyprus

September 20th, 2017 The Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), José Carreira, was in Cyprus on Wednesday in the framework of the agency’s ongoing efforts provide support. Carreira discussed EASO’s operational support with Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides and with the Head of the Cyprus’ Asylum Service and Acting...
Poor management of TC land ‘going on for decades’ Cyprus

Poor management of TC land ‘going on for decades’

September 1st, 2017 INTERIOR Minister Constantinos Petrides on Friday announced measures designed to halt the apparent misappropriation of Turkish Cypriot properties that has been going on for decades without any effort to change the current state of affairs. It followed recent reports of mismanagement by Paphos Mayor Phedonos Phedonos, although the...
Land scams extend far beyond TC properties, says mayor Cyprus

Land scams extend far beyond TC properties, says mayor

August 28th, 2017   The unlawful transfer of land to individuals by the government extend far beyond Turkish Cypriot properties, Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos claimed on Monday, further fuelling the controversy his earlier remarks sparked. He said the scams include the granting of the use of state land to individuals on a preferential...
Progress on streamlining local government Cyprus

Progress on streamlining local government

August 9th, 2017 A study on the creation of 35 to 40 administrative clusters of local councils, commissioned by the interior ministry, will be ready by November 2017, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Wednesday. Following a meeting with Union of Local Councils reps, Petrides said the grouping together of administrative services was the...
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