Posts tagged with "Yiannis Karousos"

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...
Our View: Municipalities objecting to mergers not thinking of residents Our View

Our View: Municipalities objecting to mergers not thinking of residents

January 9th, 2019 A day rarely goes by without some mayor declaring that his municipality should not be merged with another as part of the reform of local government. If we are to believe mayors and municipal councillors, none of the municipalities should be merged because they represent the devolution of central power and greater local democracy....
Ayia Napa ‘too successful’ to be merged under reforms, mayor says Cyprus

Ayia Napa ‘too successful’ to be merged under reforms, mayor says

December 1st, 2018 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 its economic viability suggests it should not be merged as part of the planned local-government reform. The city council recently approved the sum of €19.2m for the 2019 budget,...
Bridge becomes latest Ayia Napa public work of art Cyprus

Bridge becomes latest Ayia Napa public work of art

November 26th, 2018 The bridge linking two Ayia Napa parks, the sculpture park and the cactus park, has been turned into a work of art called the Argo and was inaugurated over the weekend by Mayor Yiannis Karousos and president of the Ayia Napa symposium committee Kikis Constantinou. The bridge resembling an ancient Greek ship is the work of Belgian...
Cyprus has failed to cultivate repeat tourism, Napa mayor says Cyprus

Cyprus has failed to cultivate repeat tourism, Napa mayor says

June 7th, 2018 By Andria Kades After years of booming tourism, Cyprus has failed to learn how to keep its visitors coming back and continues to rely on external factors such as political unrest in neighbouring countries, the mayor of Ayia Napa said on Thursday. In an opinion piece published in daily Politis, the mayor Yiannis Karousos said that...
Noise pollution hitting tourism says Ayia Napa mayor Cyprus

Noise pollution hitting tourism says Ayia Napa mayor

May 16th, 2018 Ayia Napa Mayor Yiannis Karousos urged the government to suspend a recent law on noise pollution because it was unenforceable and was hurting tourism. In a press release on Wednesday, the popular holiday resort’s municipality said a state of lawlessness existed when it came to regulating noise pollution. It was having an...
Club 18-30 closure welcomed in Ayia Napa Cyprus

Club 18-30 closure welcomed in Ayia Napa

May 16th, 2018 The mayor and tourism board of Ayia Napa on Tuesday welcomed news that Thomas Cook will axe its once popular Club 18-30 holidays, describing as a positive move that the holidays for young clubbers may soon be a thing of the past. “We remain committed to Club 18-30 for summer 2018. However, we are exploring options for the future of...
Not even the mayor can sleep in noisy Napa Cyprus

Not even the mayor can sleep in noisy Napa

June 12th, 2017 By Andria Kades Legislation passed by parliament on noise pollution has gaps which allow club owners to blast music as loud as they want without anyone being able to do anything about it, Ayia Napa mayor Yiannis Karousos said this week. The bill which came to force on January 1 this year seeks to have cities divided into different...
Ayia Napa honours tourists who have visited 30 times Cyprus

Ayia Napa honours tourists who have visited 30 times

June 9th, 2016 A couple from the UK have been honoured by the mayor of Ayia Napa for visiting the resort 30 times. Tony and Shirley Noon were handed a commemorative plaque for being ‘ambassadors for tourism’ by mayor Yiannis Karousos. In a written statement, the mayor thanked the British guests for their preference of Ayia Napa. He bestowed...
Water sports operators close in protest Cyprus

Water sports operators close in protest

May 18th, 2016 Some 70 water sports operators across Cyprus will be closed on Wednesday to protest against tender specifications for operating water sports in Ayia Napa. In a statement on Tuesday, small shopkeepers union POVEK along with the Water Sports Association said two meetings they held with the Ayia Napa mayor Yiannis Karousos in the past...
Water sports operators out in protest Cyprus

Water sports operators out in protest

May 16th, 2016 The Water Sports Association was on Monday protesting over the ongoing saga against the tender bids in Ayia Napa. Standing outside the town hall, the association said they would escalate measures to even possibly shut down all water sports spots across the island. The issue stems from a debate between parliament approved...
Revised planning permit approved for Ayia Napa marina Cyprus

Revised planning permit approved for Ayia Napa marina

April 26th, 2016 The highly-anticipated start of construction works for the development of the Ayia Napa Marina is a step closer following the approval of a revised permit from the Planning Authority. The approval, along with other issues, were discussed in a meeting between the Mayor Ayia Napa Yiannis Karousos and Stavros Caramondanis and Haris...
Ayia Napa cleaning up illegal billboards Cyprus

Ayia Napa cleaning up illegal billboards

February 9th, 2016 Ayia Napa municipality has started removing illegal billboards from building facades and city streets, it emerged on Tuesday. “We want to remove this visual pollution,” Mayor Yiannis Karousos said, “improve the Ayia Napa image and tidy up every corner of the municipality.” “The city of Ayia Napa started two years ago to...
Vessel to be scuttled in Ayia Napa on Saturday for creation of artificial reef Cyprus

Vessel to be scuttled in Ayia Napa on Saturday for creation of artificial reef

February 25th, 2015 By Evie Andreou An old war ship Kyrenia, donated by the government, will form the new artificial reef in Ayia Napa, the town’s mayor Yiannis Karousos told the Cyprus News Agency on Tuesday. The boat, which will be scuttled on Saturday morning off the coast of Ayia Napa in Pernera, was donated to the municipality by the defence...
Ayia Napa clocks up surplus in 2013 Cyprus

Ayia Napa clocks up surplus in 2013

April 30th, 2014 Ayia Napa municipality said on Wednesday it had managed to increase its profits from zero in 2012 to €700,000 in 2013 even with a cut in state aid, no new taxes and no layoffs. “It is noteworthy that we have achieved this with no additional increase in taxes and without layoffs , while improving the quality and level of services...
Napa mayor heads to Moscow for tourism fair Cyprus

Napa mayor heads to Moscow for tourism fair

March 18th, 2014 By Staff Reporter Ayia Napa Mayor Yiannis Karousos is heading for Moscow to attend the 21st international tourism fair that runs from Wednesday until Saturday. Karousos told the Cyprus News Agency on Tuesday that he would be having meetings with all of the major Russian operators. There was some concern over how the fall in the...
Ayia Napa to clamp down on touts Cyprus

Ayia Napa to clamp down on touts

March 12th, 2014 By Staff Reporter Ayia Napa is launching a campaign to stamp out touting for business. Mayor Yiannis Karousos said that following the passage of legislation against soliciting for business last year, local authorities and police now had more power to fight the phenomenon. "With the new legislation we have enough weapons to fight...
‘Little mermaid’ for Ayia Napa fishing harbour Cyprus

‘Little mermaid’ for Ayia Napa fishing harbour

March 4th, 2014 Ayia Napa’s quaint fishing harbour is to have its own little mermaid as part of a makeover to ‘restore its identity’, Mayor Yiannis Karousos said on Tuesday. Karousos told the Cyprus News Agency that in recent years the harbour had become a place to avoid rather than to visit. The makeover is part of the EU programme for the...
Napa sets its sights on new sports centre Cyprus

Napa sets its sights on new sports centre

January 21st, 2014 By Jean Christou AYIA Napa has set its sights on the creation of a multi-purpose centre that would boost sports tourism to the area, the municipality said on Tuesday. The project is still in its infancy and being hampered by the economic crisis but the municipality is thinking long-term and hopes to sign a deal soon with the...
Napa is happy but Paphos suffering Cyprus

Napa is happy but Paphos suffering

December 28th, 2013 By Peter Stevenson The liberalisation of flights from Moscow and St Petersburg to Larnaca airport is breathing new life into the Famagusta district according to Ayia Napa Mayor Yiannis Karousos. He called on the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) to make the necessary arrangements to remove any obstacles to freeing up more flights...
Hopes for 50,000 Ukrainian visitors in 2014 Cyprus

Hopes for 50,000 Ukrainian visitors in 2014

November 14th, 2013 THE Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) said yesterday it was “very optimistic” for tourist arrivals from the Ukraine, one of the island’s great white hopes in finding alternative, growing, markets to replace the shrinking ones.  The CTO said in an announcement it made a “great impression” during last month’s Ukrainian...
Ayia Napa has run up a €12m water bill Cyprus

Ayia Napa has run up a €12m water bill

September 20th, 2013 By Peter Stevenson AYIA Napa Municipality signed a deal at the water development department yesterday in Nicosia where it pledged to pay back in full the €12m it owes. The town’s mayor Yiannis Karousos told the Cyprus News Agency that the municipality had an invoice of €12m in its possession. “Today we have signed an...
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