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...
local government reform
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,...
