New bill seeks to hire 300 officers to police migrant flows on Green Line
The interior and justice ministries are requesting that 300 contract police officers be hired for up to 28 months as the state steps up its...
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‘All seeing’ monitoring system of Green Line set to be operational by September
The “all-seeing” 24-hour monitoring system along the Green Line is to be operational by the end of September and will limit illegal smuggling, Defence Minister...
‘People arriving faster than they can be moved out of Pournara’
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris on Thursday said he is planning to address an urgent letter to the Council of Europe with evidence showing mass migration...
Tour of Green Line for speaker of UK House of Commons
Speaker of the UK House of Commons Sir Lindsey Hoyle, in Cyprus on a three-day official visit, on Thursday toured old Nicosia, including a visit...
Interior minister backs use of physical barriers along green line
Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Monday that the management of the Green Line, even though it does not constitute an external border of the...
Lax checks of Green Line trade mean sellers losing out to contraband
Lax checks by customs authorities at the crossing points have allowed contraband coming in from the north to outcompete merchants in the Republic, while also...
North calls for more cooperation over irregular migration
The north on Tuesday called on the government to cooperate over the issue of irregular migration, arguing that it is impossible for a single ‘country’...
University of Nicosia scientist honoured for green line flora, fauna study
A Cypriot biologist was honoured during Mediterranean researchers’ night last month for her work on the flora and fauna of the green line in Cyprus....
‘Drastic measures’ needed to curb migration
Two issues: the status of the buffer zone and the failure to return rejected asylum seekers to countries designated as safe The interior minister...
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...
