Posts tagged with "migrants"

Thirty-one migrants picked up in Kato Pyrgos Cyprus

Thirty-one migrants picked up in Kato Pyrgos

January 8th, 2019 A group of 31 Syrian migrants were picked up near Kato Pyrgos late Monday. Despite the bad weather, their vessel had docked in occupied Limnitis from where the passengers were taken to Pyrgos. Among the Syrians on the boat were a family with two young children aged 5 and 6 and 27 men. The migrants were taken to the Polis...
Thirty-seven refugees picked up in Kato Pyrgos Cyprus

Thirty-seven refugees picked up in Kato Pyrgos

December 30th, 2018 Thirty-seven refugees, 35 men and two underage girls, were picked up by police in Kato Pyrgos in the early hours of Sunday, state radio reported. The migrants, who is is believed travelled by boat from Mersin in Turkey, had gone ashore in the north at Limnitis and walked the two and a half hours to cross into Kato Pyrgos where they...
Girl dies after being detained by U.S. Border Patrol Americas

Girl dies after being detained by U.S. Border Patrol

December 14th, 2018 A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of dehydration and shock hours after she was taken into U.S. Border Patrol custody, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The girl and her father had been detained by immigration authorities on Dec. 6 in New Mexico as part of a group of 163 people who approached U.S. agents to turn themselves...
Justice minister highlights improvements in human rights Cyprus

Justice minister highlights improvements in human rights

December 10th, 2018 Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou on Monday praised the progress Cyprus has made in terms of human rights in recent years by pointing to what he described as “tangible results”. He was speaking at the event ‘Modern challenges in the protection and promotion of human rights in Cyprus’ which took place to commemorate this year’s...
Forty migrants picked up in Kato Pyrgos Cyprus

Forty migrants picked up in Kato Pyrgos

December 9th, 2018 Forty migrants, 38 men, a woman and a child, who arrived in Cyprus late Saturday have been taken to the Kokkinotrimithia centre in Nicosia. Police said the migrants had arrived in the Kato Pyrgos area. At around 9.20pm, 19 nautical miles off the Morphou Bay area, a boat was spotted heading for the government-controlled. Port and...
Police find latest migrant boat, abandoned (updated) Cyprus

Police find latest migrant boat, abandoned (updated)

December 2nd, 2018 After launching a search, the police on Sunday morning announced they had found a boat believed to be the one that brought eight Syrian men, aged 24 to 41, to the island earlier in the day. According to the police, while the migrants said they had been dropped off at around 2.30am by a speedboat which had brought them from Mersina...
Mexico to deport migrants who 'violently' tried to cross the U.S. Border Americas

Mexico to deport migrants who 'violently' tried to cross the U.S. Border

November 26th, 2018 Mexico will deport migrants from a group of 500 who on Sunday tried to "violently" and "illegally" cross the U.S. border, the Mexican Interior Ministry said in a statement. The statement added that Mexican authorities had contained the protest at the crossing between Tijuana and San Diego and that, despite heightened tensions there,...
News podcast: Migrants in Cyprus, are they treated fairly? Cyprus

News podcast: Migrants in Cyprus, are they treated fairly?

November 23rd, 2018 The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in local and international – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week: How does Cyprus treat migrants? What are their rights and do we need policy changes? Upcycling plastic...
Zygi accused of racism over young migrant centre protest Cyprus

Zygi accused of racism over young migrant centre protest

November 9th, 2018 The Pancyprian Peace Council (PPC) condemned on Friday what it described as the outbreak of racism and xenophobia displayed by Zygi residents opposed to the creation of a state facility for uaccompanied minors on an empty military camp in the area. The negative attitudes it said were "the result of failed refugee policies of the...
Central American migrants trek north to seek a better life Americas

Central American migrants trek north to seek a better life

November 8th, 2018 Cradling a baby in his arms, the Central American man looks up fearfully as he scrambles away from a wall of Mexican police in riot gear. Thousands of migrants, mostly Hondurans fleeing poverty and violence, have been traveling in a caravan towards the United States in recent weeks. On Oct 19, some of them rushed through Guatemalan...
New group of refugees lands in Limnitis (Updated) Cyprus

New group of refugees lands in Limnitis (Updated)

November 7th, 2018 A new group of Syrian refugees who arrived on the beach at Limnitis on Wednesday morning were transferred later in the day to the Kokkinotrimithia reception centre. After verifying their details at the Polis Chyrochous police station, they were transferred by bus to the Kokkinotrimithia reception centre. According to the police,...
Outraged Zygi residents halt work on unaccompanied minors centre Cyprus

Outraged Zygi residents halt work on unaccompanied minors centre

November 6th, 2018 Residents of Zygi and nearby villages obstructed workers from the department of public works from conducting a record of the buildings located in an abandoned military camp in the area on Tuesday which is set to host a centre for unaccompanied children of refugees arriving in Cyprus. The residents have been up in arms against the...
Italy's Salvini condemned for moving migrants from "model" town World

Italy's Salvini condemned for moving migrants from "model" town

October 14th, 2018 By Gavin Jones Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on Sunday defended his decision to move hundreds of migrants out of a southern Italian town widely seen as a model of successful integration as opposition groups accused him of racism. Riace, a small town in Calabria, Italy's southern toe, has been in the spotlight since its...
Four dead, 30 missing as migrant boat sinks off western Turkey Turkey

Four dead, 30 missing as migrant boat sinks off western Turkey

October 10th, 2018 Four people died after a migrant boat sank off the western coast of Turkey late on Tuesday, the Turkish interior ministry said on Wednesday, adding that 30 others were still missing. The boat sank off the coast of Izmir province, the ministry said in a statement, adding that search and rescue operations were underway to find the...
Italy will close airports to unauthorised migrant flights -Salvini World

Italy will close airports to unauthorised migrant flights -Salvini

October 7th, 2018 Italy will close its airports to unauthorised planes carrying migrants from Germany, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Sunday, ratcheting up a dispute between the EU partners over how to share responsibility for asylum seekers. The two countries have been working on a deal under which Germany would send back to Italy migrants...
More migrants found in Limnitis (updated) Cyprus

More migrants found in Limnitis (updated)

September 30th, 2018 Thirty three migrants – 25 men, two women and six children – were found walking between the villages of Limnitis and Pyrgos after having entered the Republic from the occupied areas on Sunday. According to the police, the migrants had landed in the area by boat and were on foot when they were apprehended. The police picked them...
Cyprus tops list of first-time asylum applicants per capita Cyprus

Cyprus tops list of first-time asylum applicants per capita

September 26th, 2018 The highest number of first-time asylum applicants relative to the population across the EU in the second quarter of the year has been registered in Cyprus, with 1,656 per million, Eurostat figures showed on Wednesday. In terms of sheer numbers most were registered in Germany, France and Greece. According to the data, compared with...
18 migrants towed to shore Cyprus

18 migrants towed to shore

September 25th, 2018 A boat with 18 migrants was towed to shore in the Ayia Thekla area of Sotira on Tuesday afternoon, police said. Eleven men, four women and three children were brought to shore by the port authority police. According to authorities, the migrants were all given medical checks and then the majority were transferred to the centre in...
IRC warns of mental health crisis on Lesbos Greece

IRC warns of mental health crisis on Lesbos

September 25th, 2018 Greece moved another 400 people from its biggest migrant camp on Tuesday as the International Rescue Committee (IRC) charity warned of a mental health emergency there with 30 percent of people having attempted suicide. The government, under pressure from aid groups and local authorities, has said it will transfer 2,000 people from...
Unidentified vessel spotted off Akamas was not migrant boat (Updated) Cyprus

Unidentified vessel spotted off Akamas was not migrant boat (Updated)

September 24th, 2018 A boat reportedly with around 25 migrants on board was spotted off the Akamas in the Paphos region on Monday morning but authorities later said it was not a migrant boat. After receiving the information at around 9am authorities launched sea and land investigations and confirmed the vessel in question was not a migrant boat, CNA...
Still failing to learn from past mistakes Letters

Still failing to learn from past mistakes

September 23rd, 2018 The biggest problem here in Cyprus is that people don’t learn from their mistakes. They don’t see the bus that’s going to run them down. We are all delighted at the recovery of the economy but the government is making the same mistakes that led to the collapse all over again, failing to tackle the weight that the civil service...
Migrant boat on way to Cyprus sinks off Lebanon, most rescued (updated) Cyprus

Migrant boat on way to Cyprus sinks off Lebanon, most rescued (updated)

September 22nd, 2018 A boat with three dozen Syrian refugees on board sank off the coast of Lebanon on Saturday on its way to Cyprus and most were rescued by the country’s army but at least one child, aged 5, died, the Lebanese press and information office said. The boat was ferrying refugees illegally to Cyprus, and four more people were transferred to...
Boat carrying 65 people from Syria docked in Paralimni (Updated) Cyprus

Boat carrying 65 people from Syria docked in Paralimni (Updated)

September 20th, 2018 A vessel carrying 65 people from Syria, including 24 babies and children and two pregnant women, arrived in Cyprus on Thursday afternoon, police said. The boat had been detected by coastal radar at around 11.20am off Cape Greco in the Famagusta district. Police said it had sailed from Lebanon. Marine police patrol boats were...
21 more bodies wash up as migrants try to reach Spain Europe

21 more bodies wash up as migrants try to reach Spain

September 14th, 2018 The bodies of 21 people thought to be migrants trying to reach Spain have washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean this month, the U.N. migration agency said in statement on Friday. The latest deaths bring the total of Mediterranean migrant deaths this year to 1,586, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. The...
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