Police chief: we will regain the public’s trust after Metaxas case
New police chief Kypros Michaelides pledged on Thursday that the force shall redouble its efforts to cement a sense of security amid the public, addressing...
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Missing man found alive and well in his apartment
The 44-year-old man who went missing on Tuesday after going swimming in Limassol was found in good health but drunk on Thursday and was promptly...
Push to relocate remains of those killed in invasion for reburial in the Republic
Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou submitted to cabinet on Wednesday, a proposal to investigate, exhume and identify the remains of some 500 Greek Cypriots and Greeks...
In address to Filipinos, president slams authorities’ ‘casual and careless approach’ to missing persons
Any failure by Cypriot authorities to properly investigate cases of missing persons, which in seven instances at least, led to murder by a serial killer,...
Vietnamese woman missing since Tuesday in Limassol
Police are asking the public to assist them in locating 39-year-old Thi Dung Duong, a Vietnamese woman who since Tuesday has been missing from her...
Pensioner, 77, missing in Larnaca
Police are asking the public for assistance in locating 77-year-old Andreas Agathangelou, who has gone missing from his home in the village of Ayii Anargyri,...
New momentum on the cards for CMP
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has been receiving an increased flow of information over the last few weeks, Leonidas Pantelides, the Greek Cypriot member...
Turkey to allow CMP access to 30 suspected burial sites in north
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) announced on Friday Turkey had granted access to 30 suspected burial sites in military areas in the north without...
Slovak FM presents €10,000 donation to CMP
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday expressed its thanks to the Slovak Republic for its donation of €10,000 on the occasion of the...
Foreign ministry has action plan to break missing person’s deadlock (Updated)
The foreign ministry has prepared an action plan to try and break the deadlock on the issue of missing persons, some details of which came...
Sevgul Uludag’s name put forward to Nobel committee for her work on missing persons
Turkish Cypriot author and journalist, Sevgul Uludag, has been put forward to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for her work with the issue of missing...
CoE urges Turkey to assist CMP
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has urged Turkish authorities to assist the Committing on Missing Persons (CMP) in any way it...
CMP hopes Cyprus File will be of use in finding Missing
The CMP hopes to be able to use information in the Cyprus File to find missing persons, Greek Cypriot representative to the group Nestoras Nestoros...
CMP to launch new excavation in Assia
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) will launch a new excavation on Tuesday in Assia village in the north of the island to locate the...
Liverpool’s Merseyside police investigators train CMP staff
Two senior trainers from Liverpool’s Merseyside police have provided training in Nicosia to more than 20 Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots involved in the investigative...
Nicosia prepares bill to counter Turkish arguments on missing persons’ compensation
Nicosia is preparing a draft bill to counter Turkish arguments that it is not ready to distribute the compensation owed by Ankara to the relatives...
‘Disappointing year’ for CMP in terms of recovering remains
THE representative of the Greek Cypriot side in the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP), Nestoras Nestoros, on Friday described the results of the...
Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday expressed its gratitude to Ireland for its latest donation of €25,000. This brings the Irish financial assistance...
Remains of a TC victim of Athalassa bombing handed over to relatives
The remains of one of three Turkish Cypriots killed along with dozens of Greek Cypriot at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia when it was...
CMP finds remains of missing person in a well in the north
A bi-communal excavation team from the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has recovered the remains of one individual in a well at Sinda/İnönü in...