#Interior Ministry

Gamekeepers employed on hourly contracts announced on Friday they would strike on November 19 if the Interior Ministry does not increase their wages. The decision was made following a meeting of ...

Local authorities said on Monday they will be able to step in to tackle listed buildings that are in a dangerous state if an interior ministry bill is passed into ...

The interior ministry has registered 240 individuals at the Ayios Nikolaos apartment complex in Chlorakas, of which two were found to in Cyprus illegally, a migration department official said on Thursday. ...

The planned government buildings in the Archigrammateia area of Nicosia ‘are no longer a priority for the government’, Transport Minister Alexis Vafeades told the Cyprus Mail on Wednesday. Vafeades explained ...

The interior ministry is looking to rationalise the rental practices of Turkish Cypriot properties on Mackenzie beach in Larnaca, where holders have been paying very low rent for years. The ...

A Turkish Cypriot with American citizenship has been awarded €345,000 in compensation for loss of use of his property in Limassol and also had ownership of the property returned to him. ...

Turkish Cypriot properties in the south leased to Greek Cypriots must first pass structural integrity checks to ensure they’re safe for habitation, under a law passed by parliament on ...

Cyprus has repatriated close to 7,000 migrants during 2022 and is a model within the EU for such returns, according to Interior Minister Nicos Nouris. According to figures from the European Border ...

The interior ministry issued an apology on Wednesday, after letters went out to dead people to register to vote. The issue came to light, after a father published a letter ...

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 number of reforms, including in ...

The interior ministry on Sunday criticised the audit office for not following prescribed procedures in requesting files. The announcement came a day after the audit office tweeted that it had ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris will on Monday sign an agreement in Switzerland, with the latter providing a financial contribution of €10 million to Cyprus for the management of migration flows. The ...

Interior minister Nicos Nouris on Thursday assured lawmakers that local government reform will become a reality on July 1, 2024. Speaking to the members of the House interior committee on Thursday, Nouris ...

Paphos Mayor Phedonas Phedonos has hit back at the interior ministry which on Saturday called on the municipality to assume its responsibilities after balconies on two buildings collapsed in the ...

EU member states that are attempting to tackle illegal immigration have done so by placing barriers, increasing specialised patrols and enhanced their technological surveillance systems, the interior ministry said on ...

The state has no responsibility for rockslides on private plots, the interior ministry reiterated on Friday, a day after MPs and the Aglandjia mayor plead for financial assistance to clean ...

The interior minister said on Friday that 718 out-of-court fines have been issued for poaching over the past five years, the amount due totalling about €2.3m. The police anti-poaching unit reported 74 ...

Lawmakers and competent bodies will continue discussions on the removal of the father’s and mother’s names from Cypriot ID cards on June 6, following the example of other EU ...

The interior ministry on Wednesday rubbished claims that the state granted citizenship to a Vietnamese investor while he was arrested in custody at his home country. “The person in question ...

Incentives for the creation of student residences within walled city of Nicosia is another step towards the permanent revitalisation of the area, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Monday. Speaking ...

The interior ministry said on Wednesday that 32 people have changed their name and gender on their official government documents in the past six years. The data for the years 2016-2021 ...

The interior and foreign ministries in cooperation with the immigration department, police and the government of Vietnam on Friday, repatriated 258 Vietnamese nationals who were staying illegally in Cyprus. The repatriations ...

The interior ministry’s housing expenditure is up threefold for 2022, minister Nicos Nouris told the House finance committee during discussion of the ministry’s budget. Nouris said his ministry’s ...

The Interior Ministry cautioned the public on Wednesday that scammers have been carrying out illegal fundraisers mainly on social media, pretending to represent various charity organisations. “We call on citizens ...