Cyprus and Austria to cooperate on migration issues
Cyprus and Austria will submit proposals next week on their cooperation on illegal migration and relocation matters, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris stated on Friday after...
Asylum seekers
More legal staff to deal with asylum cases
Cabinet has tweaked the legislation to hire far more judges and court staff to decongest the backlog of asylum seeker applications. The courts are currently...
Three arrested with fake passports
Three persons aged 26, 25 and 23, were arrested at Limassol port on Monday after they attempted to depart the island using forged travel documents....
Development projects the focus of interior ministry 2023 budget
A little over a third of the interior ministry’s budget for 2023 will go to development projects, as the administration works to push through a...
I’m ashamed to be African and an asylum seeker
I am so ashamed as an African, l am so ashamed as an asylum seeker here in Cyprus. We left our home countries because of...
Hope for Children has sheltered over two hundred minors to-date
Hope for Children organisation on Monday said it has hosted during the past three years, 257 unaccompanied minors, in its ‘Home for Hope’ shelter, offering...
Our View: Cyprus is not powerless to deal with the irregular migrants
The European Union’s report on migration and asylum, released on Thursday, said that Cyprus has seen a 122 per cent increase on 2021 in the...
Three arrested at Paphos airport for forged documents, impersonation
Police arrested two people who tried to depart from Paphos airport last Friday and Saturday with forged documents, while a third person was also arrested...
Police raid Chlorakas building, arrest three, four others charged stealing electricity
Police conducted a raid on a building in Chlorakas overnight, where they arrested three people for illegally residing in the building, and charged four others...
European volunteers in action at Pournara
A mission with 140 volunteers from various European countries came to Cyprus in August to support refugees staying at the Pournara reception centre for asylum...
