Monday, February 12, 2024

PAFOS FOUNDATION OF CULTURE IS IN LIMBO

 Filenews 12 February 2024  - by Dora Christodoulou



The planned Pafos Cultural Foundation is now in limbo, initially announced by the Pafos Municipal Council and has been going from postponement to postponement for three years.

Information from "F" indicates that the design has probably been definitively and silently overturned. However, everyone is now citing the upcoming election period, hoping that the new landscape in local government that will emerge from June onwards will shape the conditions that will be able to bring the major issue back for discussion and decision-making. The Cultural Foundation, based on the initial decisions, would pick up the thread of culture from where "Pafos 2017" left off.

Everything seemed to be taking its course after the meeting of the Pafos Municipal Council on June 24, 2021. However, the Pafos Municipal Council failed to complete the examination of the issue and take decisions, since part of it, citing the special conditions of the pandemic, succeeded in postponing the discussion and decision on the appointment of the members of the new body.

Now, even though we are now in 2024, things remain in the same denominator of that June. The issue is not part of any meeting agenda. At the same time, there are increasing assessments and whispers within the City Hall that the issue has been informally abandoned.