Posts tagged with "municipalities"

Napa mayor calls for emergency meeting over local authority reforms Cyprus

Napa mayor calls for emergency meeting over local authority reforms

January 11th, 2019 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 intention of abolishing a number of local authorities as part of plans to reform the bankrupt sector. In a letter to the chairman of the union, Karousos said there was a sense that municipalities were...
‘Time is ripe’ for local government reforms, president says Cyprus

‘Time is ripe’ for local government reforms, president says

November 27th, 2018 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 of Cyprus Municipalities conference. He added that the interior minister, the Union, and the political parties have all agreed that the conditions are ready to have the plan...
Municipal gravy trains can’t go on, audit boss says Cyprus

Municipal gravy trains can’t go on, audit boss says

May 4th, 2018 By Evie Andreou THE latest report by the audit office on local government paints a bleak picture of the state of affairs in municipalities, communities and sewerage boards, Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said on Thursday. The findings for 2016 refers to unlicensed petrol stations, irregular use of service cars, unsustainable...
Municipalities can receive EU funding to create public wi-fi spots Cyprus

Municipalities can receive EU funding to create public wi-fi spots

March 20th, 2018 The European Commission on Tuesday launched its WiFi4EU web portal to which municipalities all over Europe are invited to register for the chance to benefit from EU financing to build free public wireless internet hotspots. The WiFi4EU programme offers vouchers worth €15,000 for municipalities to set up Wi-Fi hotspots in public...
Garbage collectors call for clustering of services, not ruling out strikes Cyprus

Garbage collectors call for clustering of services, not ruling out strikes

February 17th, 2018 Municipal dustmen are urging their employers to seriously consider clustering garbage collection services and avoid outsourcing to private companies to save future jobs in local government and reduce costs, a trade union representative said on Friday. Dustmen from all districts are holding meetings with their trade unions from Sek and...
President announces more projects for Limassol Cyprus

President announces more projects for Limassol

July 27th, 2017 New projects budgeted at €70 million for Limassol were announced by President Nicos Anastasiades during a meeting with local municipalities at the Limassol town hall on Thursday. In a speech, Anastasiades said his presence aimed at reviewing progress on the last batch of projects he had announced in 2015, so that progress on any...
Default is only way to push for municipal reforms Our View

Default is only way to push for municipal reforms

April 29th, 2017 MUNICIPAL workers held a one-hour work stoppage on Thursday to protest about the financial plight of local authorities and back the demand by the Union of Municipalities for a return of government funding to pre-crisis levels. They also demanded that the government gave town councils the sum saved from pay cuts so it could be used for...
Municipalities’ overall debt seen at €448.9m in 2015 Cyprus

Municipalities’ overall debt seen at €448.9m in 2015

December 14th, 2016 Last year, the 30 municipalities in Cyprus managed to reduce their gross debt by €10.1m to €448.9m compared with 2014, accounting for 2.3 per cent of total government debt, the Audit Office said. Still, the net amount, which excluded €144.9m in municipality debt attributable to the central government, rose to €304m from...
Limassol mayor, Nicosia councillors beat peers in annual earnings Cyprus

Limassol mayor, Nicosia councillors beat peers in annual earnings

December 14th, 2016 The number of candidates in Sunday’s municipal elections has soared to record levels. Alone, the number of candidate mayors rose to 112 this year, from 87 in 2011, for a ratio of almost 4 for every mayoral office. A look at the earnings of a mayor or a councillor may explain why. In 2015, the Cypriot taxpayer paid a total €5m for...
Clamping down on illegal parking featured

Clamping down on illegal parking

October 9th, 2016 Municipalities are increasingly using bollards and poles installed on pavements to discourage illegal parking and offset a general shortage of traffic wardens who are tasked with slapping fines on drivers who insist on parking wherever they want. Whilst in many countries traffic wardens are given quotas for fines they are expected to...
Our View: No workable solution except to cut number of municipalities Opinion

Our View: No workable solution except to cut number of municipalities

August 26th, 2016 WHEN Cyprus entered the assistance programme in 2013 and the government was discussing a range of reforms that would reduce state spending, predictably, one of the issues it raised was local government. There were far too many indebted municipalities, employing too many people whose wages and pensions were a big drain on the municipal...
Audit boss says corruption was worse than he expected it to be Cyprus

Audit boss says corruption was worse than he expected it to be

August 14th, 2016 Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said when he took over two and a half years ago, the corruption in public life was worse than he expected it to be. In an interview with Phileleftheros, Michaelides answered his critics by saying he would continue to do what he is doing to expose it. Michaelides said he expected a certain amount...
Green Dot to resume collections featured

Green Dot to resume collections

May 27th, 2016 Green Dot Cyprus will begin collecting recyclable waste in Paphos after months of standoff, the company announced on Friday. Following a meeting between Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyalis, Chairman of Green Dot Mike Spanos and Environment Department chief Costas Hadjipanayiotou, the company said they would resume their work within...
Free Greek language lessons for third country nationals (Updated) Cyprus

Free Greek language lessons for third country nationals (Updated)

January 27th, 2016 Several municipalities will be offering free Greek lessons to third country nationals in all areas of the Republic, it was announced on Wednesday. The lessons will be offered by Dherynia, Paphos, Ayios Dhometios, and Ayios Athanasios municipalities in co-operation with KES college, CARDET research centre, and consultancy firm...
Ministry says municipalities ‘being paid’ to clean refugee estates Cyprus

Ministry says municipalities ‘being paid’ to clean refugee estates

January 21st, 2016 By Andria Kades MUNICIPALITIES have stopped cleaning refugee estates citing an apparent lack of funding, with the interior ministry on Thursday hitting back saying local authorities collect taxes to do this work. After a House refugee committee earlier this week heard problems people living in refugee estates face, including open...
Wedding tourism steadily climbing Cyprus

Wedding tourism steadily climbing

December 16th, 2015 By Annette Chrysostomou Around 8,000 couples from abroad chose Cyprus as their wedding destination this year, with the number steadily climbing over the years, according to the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO). It remains an important objective of the CTO to maintain the leading position of Cyprus as a wedding tourism destination...
Turkey denies cutting water supply to north Cyprus

Turkey denies cutting water supply to north

November 21st, 2015 By Evie Andreou TURKEY on Friday denied reports that it had shut down the water transfer to the north over disagreements about who would manage distribution, saying the valves were temporarily closed due to testing works. Reports were rife that the water was cut off as a reaction to the proposal by Turkish Cypriots that supply was...
The garden waste problem Cyprus

The garden waste problem

October 24th, 2015 By Annette Chrysostomou With the gardening season well and truly upon us, many of us will be guiltily sneaking our pulled-up weeds and cuttings into general rubbish bags, hiding them among all the rest of our other unrecycled garbage We do it partly because we can - we don’t have to recycle - and partly because we don’t know what...
Government keeping local authorities on a ventilator, president says Cyprus

Government keeping local authorities on a ventilator, president says

September 9th, 2015 The government can no longer provide a lifeline for local authorities President Nicos Anastasiades said on Wednesday addressing the controversial bill reforming local government  which is opposed by municipalities. Often having to deal with municipalities finances, Anastasiades said: “This is a problem that is passed on to the...
Our View: Municipal reform an unsatisfactory but inevitable compromise Opinion

Our View: Municipal reform an unsatisfactory but inevitable compromise

July 23rd, 2015 AFTER seeking the advice of foreign experts, the interior ministry has drafted the legislation for the reform of local authority and submitted it to the legislature which will discuss it after the summer recess. According to press reports, mayors and councillors are unhappy with the three bills for a number of reasons, the main being...
Cabinet approves bill to reform local government Cyprus

Cabinet approves bill to reform local government

July 15th, 2015 The cabinet on Tuesday gave the nod to a bill for reform of local government designed to cut administrative costs through a clustering of services and a reduction in the payroll. Interior minister Socrates Hasikos said he hoped parliament - once it reconvenes after the summer break - would pass the legislation well before the end of...
Municipalities to get more aid for migrants Cyprus

Municipalities to get more aid for migrants

June 13th, 2015 By Andria Kades LOCAL authorities will have up to 40 per cent more in subsidies to help immigrants integrate in the towns they live in, the Interior ministry said yesterday. Speaking at a presentation at the Nicosia municipality of the programme called “new ways to integrate third country nationals in local communities”, the...
Law on composting, recycling and separate collection to be passed soon Cyprus

Law on composting, recycling and separate collection to be passed soon

May 26th, 2015 Cyprus is close to adopting legislation to prevent and reduce organic waste and the environment department is already at an advanced stage of drafting the regulations to be included in the legislation. Environment department officer Kalliroi Christophi told CNA that household composting was provided for in the national programme for...
Close to single rubbish collection service Cyprus

Close to single rubbish collection service

April 23rd, 2015 By Angelos Anastasiou Municipalities of the greater Nicosia area have come to a tentative agreement on centralising their waste-collection services with a view to cutting costs, the Mayor of Engomi said Thursday. The issue was discussed at a meeting of Nicosia mayors on Wednesday, during which a study prepared by...
Audit watchdog eyes fat mayoral pensions Cyprus

Audit watchdog eyes fat mayoral pensions

April 4th, 2015 By Angelos Anastasiou Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides has asked the interior and finance ministers to review the issue of pension hikes for mayors, first raised by his predecessor Chrystalla Georghadji Georghadji first raised the issue with the House ethics and finance committees in 2012. In a follow-up letter dated March...
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