Sotira moves to merge with Ayia Napa and Liopetri
The Sotira municipal council unanimously decided on Friday to merge with Ayia Napa and Liopetri in a future merger of local authorities as part of...
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Mayors lobbying president to prevent local govt mergers
A small number of mayors are said to have lobbied the president directly to prevent their municipalities from being absorbed into larger clusters, as provided...
Aglandjia mayor one of few to support municipal mergers
Aglandjia mayor Charalambos Petrides said on Friday he was in favour of plans to reform the local authority system that may see his jurisdiction merge...
Local government reform will cut red tape says minister
The plan to reform local administration essentially means restructuring the role of central government, Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides said on Tuesday, highlighting the scale of...
‘Residents ought to have a say in local government merger’
Any changes including mergers of local authorities should be done through referendums and not by force, the community leader of Chlorakas, Nicolas Liasides said on...
Napa mayor calls for emergency meeting over local authority reforms
AYIA Napa Mayor Yiannis Karousos has asked for an emergency meeting of the Union of Municipalities in a bid to put a halt to the...
Dherynia joins growing list of municipalities rejecting mergers
Dherynia municipality on Thursday expressed reservations over its merger with neighbouring local authorities as part of local government reform, arguing that its residents are being...
Athienou joins other municipalities in rejecting mergers
Athienou in Larnaca will under no circumstances agree to be merged with another municipality, it declared on Wednesday. The decision was made at a meeting...
Minister lashes out at municipal ‘kingdoms’ fighting reform
Interior Minister Constantinos Petrides charged on Wednesday that certain local authorities, which he did not name, have started gathering signatures against merging with other municipalities...
Yeroskipou municipality to fight Paphos merger
The Yeroskipou municipality set up a campaign committee on Tuesday to battle its proposed merging with the Paphos municipality as part of the planned local...
Ayia Napa ‘too successful’ to be merged under reforms, mayor says
By Lizzy Ioannidou The Ayia Napa municipality is expected to have a budget surplus of €3.6m in 2019, according to Mayor Yiannis Karousos, who said...
‘Time is ripe’ for local government reforms, president says
The time is ripe to promote a radical and complete plan to strengthen local government reforms, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday at the Union...
Petrides aims for local government reforms by early 2019
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...
‘Time is ripe to press on with local government reform’
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...
Parties thwart every attempt at municipal reform
By George Koumoullis THE problem with the municipalities can be summarised in a few words – too many, over-staffed and underworked. There are 39 municipalities,...
New round of talks on local government reform pledged
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...
Progress on streamlining local government
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,...
New interior minister plans to streamline building licences
The government has commissioned a study into how town planning and construction permits can be merged into a single licence issued by a single agency,...
Local government reform package would streamline water and sewerage
By Elias Hazou The three bills comprising the government’s local administration reform package could go to the plenum by Easter or before the summer recess,...
Our View: Parties snubbed sensible municipal bill simply to annoy government
WHEN two weeks ago Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos submitted the government bill to postpone the local authority elections scheduled for December, this column had asked...
