Posts tagged with "migrants"

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...
Unhcr says migrant inflow manageable but readiness plan needed Cyprus

Unhcr says migrant inflow manageable but readiness plan needed

September 7th, 2018 By George Psyllides THE UN high commission for refugees (Unhcr) said Thursday the situation in Cyprus concerning migrant inflows is manageable at present, despite the rise in numbers, but a broader readiness plan must be drafted in case of mass arrivals. The spokeswoman of Unhcr’s Cyprus office said the organisation was on...
Rusting boats in Pyrgos a legacy of people smuggling Cyprus

Rusting boats in Pyrgos a legacy of people smuggling

September 2nd, 2018 A rusting passenger vessel called Nedim Kaptan docked at the harbour of Kato Pyrgos since last November when it was towed by Cypriot authorities with some 170 mostly Syrian refugees onboard, has become a bit of an attraction, but not a very pleasant one for the local community. It is one of four vessels used for carrying refugees and...
Suspected people smuggler remanded by Paphos court Cyprus

Suspected people smuggler remanded by Paphos court

September 2nd, 2018 The Paphos district court on Sunday remanded a suspected people smuggler for eight days. The 39-year-old is suspected of involvement in bringing nine migrants to the Akamas region on Saturday. He faces charges of conspiracy to commit felony, giving assistance to illegal immigrants for entry or stay in the territory of the Republic...
24 Syrians on migrant boat rescued off Cape Greco Cyprus

24 Syrians on migrant boat rescued off Cape Greco

August 31st, 2018 Twenty four Syrians, 16 adults and eight children under the age of eight were rescued off Cape Greco on the island’s south-east, on Friday afternoon, CNA reported The immigrants were transported to the aliens and immigration department in Paralimni where they were giving statements to police after a translator was brought in. The...
News podcast: Is the government doing enough for asylum seekers Cyprus

News podcast: Is the government doing enough for asylum seekers

August 31st, 2018 The Cyprus News Digest, in collaboration with the Cyprus Mail brings you an in-depth analysis of some of the latest developments in international and local news – in audio form. Presented by Rosie Charalambous, this week: Asylum seekers are being forced to camp in public parks because they can't afford to rent accommodation -...
Migrants found in Neo Chorio, Paphos and Peristernona in Nicosia (Updated) Cyprus

Migrants found in Neo Chorio, Paphos and Peristernona in Nicosia (Updated)

August 30th, 2018 A total of 16 migrants were found Thursday morning, 10 wandering near Peristerona, Nicosia and six in the Paphos district. At around 6am ten persons walking on a road in the Nicosia district were spotted and taken to Peristerona police station where social welfare and civil defence officials were called in to attend to them. A...
Italy threatens to cut EU funding over Catania migrant standoff Europe

Italy threatens to cut EU funding over Catania migrant standoff

August 24th, 2018  Italy's government threatened on Friday to withhold next year's contributions to the EU budget if Brussels failed to resolve a standoff over the fate of immigrants stranded for four days in an Italian port. The around 150 mostly Eritrean migrants are being held in the port of Catania on board the Diciotti, an Italian ship that...
Fourteen migrant men and one child found in Akaki Cyprus

Fourteen migrant men and one child found in Akaki

August 20th, 2018 Fourteen immigrant men and one under-age child were intercepted at around 6am on Monday in the Nicosia district when they were spotted by police walking on a road in Akaki. Police say they were from the Middle East and had crossed from the north. The individuals were taken to the local police station in Peristerona, where...
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