Cross only from checkpoints, bicommunal committee on crime warns
In the wake of last week’s arrest of a pensioner who followed his dog into the buffer zone, the bicommunal technical committee on crime and...
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EU says Cyprus not ready to join Schengen area
Cyprus is not yet ready to enter Schengen, the EU’s region of free movement, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, said on Wednesday. The Schengen area, which...
€700,000 in grants to boost businesses along Green Line
A total of €700,000 in grants were presented on Friday by Interior Minister Nicos Nouris and Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis to 18 private companies operating...
Police looking for people who cut green line barbed wire
Police were on Sunday continuing their search for the people who cut part of the barbed wire that has been put along a section of...
Buffer zone barbed wire to stop migrants leaves farmers stranded (Updated)
The installation of barbed wire along the Green Line in rural Nicosia to prevent irregular migration from the north has caused concern among residents, community...
Iranian dissident caught in Cyprus limbo
An Iranian dissident who fled his country fearing arrest has fallen foul of politics and COVID-19 restrictions in ethnically split Cyprus. Since mid-September, Omid Tootian...
Anastasiades concerned by deliberate ‘efforts to alter Cyprus’ demographic character’ (Update 3)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Tuesday said the flow of migrants from Turkey was concerning and suggested it could be a deliberate attempt to alter the...
Nicosia municipality shores up landmark Green Line cafe
Nicosia municipality on Wednesday started work to shore up a building that used to house the Spitfire coffeeshop at Paphos Gate prior to the 1974...
Renovation funds for green line properties extended
The government will renew for four more years a programme providing funds for revamping areas by the buffer zone in the Nicosia and Ayios Dhometios...
Why I visit the occupied part of Cyprus
By Christos Panayiotides Many people ask me why I occasionally visit the occupied part of Cyprus. There are many reasons. Most importantly, I go because...
Flyers critical of Nicosia armed patrols taken down
Authorities on Monday removed flyers criticising the government decision to introduce armed patrols in the old part of Nicosia. The flyers, plastered all over the...
Movement across the Green Line increases
The number of Greek-Cypriots crossing to the north almost tripled in 2019 in relation to last year, figures released by the justice ministry showed on...
Green Line regulation being assessed to improve procedures
The Green Line Regulation is currently being assessed so that it is made more effective and problems faced are tackled, Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides said...
New subsidies for homes along buffer zone and in mountains
The government on Thursday announced a new housing scheme offering monetary incentives to individuals and families to move to areas close to the buffer zone...
‘A creative business district along the Green Line’
The RISE research centre has announced its cooperation with PwC Cyprus, where some components of the centre’s activities are currently being hosted. According to Constantinos...
Nicosia municipality buys landmark Sopaz factory building
Nicosia municipality said on Wednesday it had acquired the old animal-feed production factory in the Sopaz area of the capital and it would be used...
EC funding coming through for park linking both sides
The go-ahead has been given for the construction of a five-kilometre linear park along the Pedieos River in the north aiming to bring the two...
A rare view from inside Nicosia’s buffer zone
In September, photographer Roman Robroek was commissioned to photograph the Nicosia green line. His evocative photos formed part of a conference earlier this week organised...
Conference issues SOS for Nicosia green line
Everything which can be prepared to open up the buffer zone along Nicosia’s green line has been done, now it is up to the...
Comedy about smuggling runaway pet back across the divide wins prize at Tribeca
A comedy about a Greek Cypriot man and his dog who ran across the Green Line to the north, and his owner’s efforts to get...