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Peyia Municipality Notices
Notices issued by Peyia Municipality.

Internet Links Links
The links below will take you to other useful and interesting....

Peyia Football Club
Home matches fixture list.

Voting Rights for non-Cypriot EU residents in Cyprus
How to Register on the Electoral List

Easter Traditions in Cyprus
Easter is the greatest celebration in the Greek Orthodox Church....

NOTICES ISSUED BY THE PEYIA MUNICPALITY

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INTERNET LINKS

The links below will take you to other useful,interesting and related websites.

Cans for Kids
Cans For Kids is a registered charity, formed in 1990 to organise the collection and recycling of aluminium cans in Cyprus the proceeds of which go to the purchase of medical equipment for the children's wards at Cypriot hospitals. The Peyia Community Association is proud to be a sponsor.

Car Licence Renewal
Renew your annual car licence on line.

Chloraka Sunset Development
A cautionary tale of defective building work that is already 14 years old and still ongoing!

Cyprus Property Buyers
A definitive, independent money saving guide to buying real estate on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus.

Cyprus Property News, Views and Opinion
A blog by Nigel Howarth containing news, views and information for home seekers & property investors looking to buy property in Cyprus.

Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber (ETEK)
ETEK, PO Box 21826, 1513, Nicosia. Tel 22877644 Fax 22730373

Cyprus Trader - Buying and Selling Online
Cyprus Trader is an online classified ad web site where you can sell properties, cars, marine related products or in fact anything that is for sale for FREE.

EU Ombudsman in Cyprus
Access to the European Union.

Ministry of Health of the Republic of Cyprus
Healthcare entitlement in Cyprus under EU regulations

Official Government website for the Republic of Cyprus
Access to all government departments for the Republic of Cyprus.]

The British High Commission
General useful information.

The Council for the Registration and Control of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors
Paphos District Office, Nicolaidi 3, Savva Georgiou Court , 1st floor office 104, Paphos. Tel 26936158 Fax 26818252

Voting rights for non Cypriot EU nationals
Details issued by the Cypriot Government on your voting rights

Links Disclaimer: This page contains hypertext links to information created and maintained by other public and private organisations.. These links provide additional information that may be useful or interesting but The Peyia Community Association cannot guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this outside information, nor does The Peyia Community Associationn necessarily endorse the organisations sponsoring linked websites, the views they express, or the products and services they offer.

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APOP KINYRAS PEYIAS F C
DEMOTIKOU STADIOU 5, 8560, PEYIA

PEYIA F C APOP KINYRAS

HOME GAMES

 CYPRUS FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION 2 nd DIVISION LEAGUE

ALL GAMES AT THE MUNICIPAL STADIUM OF PEYIA

 ENTRANCE: £ 5

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PEYIA MUNICIPALITY

PEYIA CO-OP CREDIT SOCIETY


OUR GAME
IS FAIR PLAY

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Email : apopkinyraspeyias@cytanet.com.cy
tel : 26622699 – fax: 26623169

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VOTING RIGHTS FOR NON CYPRIOT E.U. RESIDENTS OF CYPRUS
How to Register on the Electoral List
This information has been prepared by the Peyia Community Association

With Cyprus's accession to the European Union, non-Cypriot EU nationals resident in Cyprus have the right to vote and to stand as candidates in municipal elections (ref. Council Directive 94/80/EC, 19 December 1994 ). In addition to voting, EU nationals may also run as candidates for the local council. The position of Mayor, however, is reserved for Cypriot nationals.

The next island-wide municipal elections will be held in December 2006, to elect Mayors, Community Leaders and Local Council Members for the next five years.   The electoral roll is updated every three months (January, April, July and October). Voters need to register by mid-September 2006 at the latest to be included in the early October 2006 update, which will be the last one before the December 2006 municipal elections. There is a separate electoral roll for non-Cypriot EU nationals.

How to register to vote:

You must be in possession of a Cyprus ID card (see below)

You then simply complete and submit the blue bilingual Greek/English electoral registration form, entitled “Application for Registration in the Special Electoral List for European Community Electors”, available at all District Offices in Cyprus . On this form, you declare your nationality, address and date of residence in Cyprus or in an EU country (residence must have been for at least six months). You will be given a receipt for this application.

Once registered, voters need to check that their names are correctly listed on the quarterly updates, which are found in local community offices. A European Voter booklet is issued, which must be collected from the community leader.

How to obtain a Cyprus ID card:

To apply for a Cyprus ID card you need to be in possession of a 'Temporary Residence Permit' (once known as a pink slip but now is yellow - see below) which is obtained from the Local Immigration Office (see below if you do not possess a Temporary Residence Permit).

You need then to complete the ID application form which is available at the District Offices throughout Cyprus . You have to submit this completed form with the following:-

Your birth certificate (original) plus a photocopy for retention
Your passport (original) plus a photocopy for retention
Your Temporary Residents Permit (original) plus a photocopy for retention
Your Alien Registration Certificate (original) plus a photocopy of cover and interior for retention
The payment of £5 (currently)

A ‘Temporary Residence Permit ' is obtained from the Local Immigration Department. (In Paphos, there is currently about a two-month wait just for an appointment with Immigration. It may then take a further six to nine months to receive the Temporary Residence Permit.

Due to these delays, the Ministry of the Interior has issued instructions to Immigration to “fast-track” EU citizens. Once a person has a receipt from Immigration, they will now be able to apply for a Cyprus ID card immediately.

The Pafos District Office is located next to the ‘old' post office close to the market in the road that contains Marks and Spencer. The ID card office is the door to the right as you enter and the office to register your vote is the door to the left. The office has its own camera for photographs if you do not already have them.

(Revised July 2006)

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EASTER TRADITIONS IN CYPRUS

Easter is the greatest celebration in the Greek Orthodox Church.

It is celebrated on the first Sunday following the full moon of the spring equinox and this year falls on the 23 rd of April.

To celebrate Easter everything should look clean and new, so houses are cleaned, painted or white-washed, and new clothes are a "must", especially new shoes. Holy Week is dedicated to church-going and to baking, etc.

On Palm Sunday a procession makes its way around the church with an icon of Christ. This procession is to commemorate Christ's entry into Jerusalem . Everybody holds olive branches, kiriaki ton vaion, which is the Cypriot version of the palm fronds that would have been used when Christ entered Jerusalem . Sacks of olive leaves are taken into the church where they are kept for forty days. The then dried olive leaves are shared out among the congregation and taken to their homes to be used in the kapnistiri which is a small burner in which some burning charcoal is placed with olive leaves on top. The olive leaves would traditionally be burnt when asking for help from God, when a visitor arrives, when they buy something new or when they start something new.

In Peyia the traditional day for the housewives to do their Easter baking is the Saturday after Good Friday, not the Thursday before as is usual elsewhere. They bake flaounes, a kind of cheese cake of shortcrust pastry made from sheep's milk with a cheese, egg and mint filling, formed into triangular and square shapes. Koulouria are baked with milk, spices and a little sugar and tyropittes are loaves with small pieces of the cheese used for flaounes added and rolled in sesame seeds. In addition it is traditional in Peyia to make a special meat pie called mpaskia or empaskia which is made with the cheese stuffing for flaounes mixed together with meat from a young goat.

Eggs are dyed as well. Traditionally they are dyed red with a special root called rizari. In Peyia beetroot is also used to dye the eggs. Eggs can also be dyed yellow. For this purpose the yellow marguerites that cover the waysides and fields during April are used. In Peyia some people paint flower patterns on the eggs with dye from the marguerites and place them in a muslin bag to boil in the dye. This colours the egg and leaves the painted design .

Good Friday this year is the 21 st of April. In the afternoon everyone takes flowers to church so that the young girls can decorate the Epitafios which represents Christ's tomb, the Holy Sepulchre. This is a four-posted litter with a canopy under which lies a richly adorned silk cloth with an image of Christ on it. The whole structure is completely decorated with flowers, a task that takes the greater part of Good Friday afternoon. Traditionally the Epitafios was decorated by virgins, to signify The Virgin Mary.

At lunchtime the traditional Faki Xidati, vinegar and lentil soup is eaten, containing vinegar because it is said that when Christ asked for water on his way to Calgary but he was given vinegar instead.

The streets along which the Epitafios will pass in solemn procession later that night are being decorated with coloured lights and Easter eggs. The procession starts after the evening service with the priests preceding, then the Scouts or young men carrying the litter of Christ and then the choir, singing hymns. The whole congregation follows, and children light sparklers on the way. Fireworks are lit around the church. But before the procession leaves the church the congregation will kiss the hand of the priest and take a flower. (After the service the flower will be taken home and used together with the olive leaves as incense). Then the whole procession led by the Epitafios leaves the church in an easterly direction and returns from the west after going around the village square which has been decorated for the occasion. On returning to the door of the church the Epitafios is raised aloft and the congregation passes underneath it back into the church.

On Saturday there is a sermon during which the church doors are banged and candleholders shaken, this is to signify that Christ is no longer in His grave.

At five in the afternoon a bonfire is lit in the churchyard and someone will sing the song of the Virgin Mary. The bonfire represents burning Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Christ.

The service of resurrection is at 11pm on the Saturday. Everybody, very formally dressed, goes to church with an unlit candle and the sermon is held to the accompaniment of fire-crackers. The priest proclaims that Christ has risen with the words 'thefte lavete fos' or 'come and take the light'. The congregation now light candles and everyone greets each other with the phrase 'Christos anesti', 'Christ has risen', to which the other answers 'alithos anesti', 'indeed he has risen'.

There will be a church service at eleven on Sunday morning after which the celebrations begin. The children go around cracking and winning colored eggs, if your egg cracks then you lose it and the child with the unbroken egg gets it.  At lunchtime picnics and family gatherings are held everywhere, lambs are roasted on the spit and wine flows freely.

In the villages Easter is an all-village affair apart from being a big holiday. On such days after Mass the priest stands at the church door with the Cross and everyone leaving kisses the Cross then shakes and takes the hand of the person in front, thus forming a large circle in the church yard which symbolizes  the renewal of friendship with one another. After this, friends and relations are invited to the villagers' homes where they sit down together, eating and drinking until late in the afternoon.

On Easter Sunday the fun starts which lasts until Tuesday. There are various games, dances and jokes. The young people celebrate by hanging up souses, or swings. For this purpose young men and girls hang ropes from trees and while the girls swing, they all sing songs, love songs or teasing songs called tchatismata. These songs are made up at every festive occasion and there are even professionals who sing them. The characteristic of the tchatismata is that someone gets up and starts by opening the subject in reciting praises for the host, something to tease a friend, or a love song for a girl. If he can, the one who has been made the subject of the song gets up and replies by reciting his views on whatever has just been said. More usually, however, there are two people singing the tchatismata by making up the song as they go along, one making up the first few lines, the other the next few and so on. In the old village way of life this would have been one of the few times during the year when young men and women would have been left alone together.

The Easter celebrations last many days. So please bear in mind that shops and petrol stations etc are likely to be closed from the 21st April until the 25th and again from the 29th until the 1st May.

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