Posts tagged with "refugees"

Our View: Refugees have woken up to their true situation too late Our View

Our View: Refugees have woken up to their true situation too late

March 17th, 20194857 The mayors of six occupied municipalities gave a news conference on Thursday to express their frustration about the failure of the state to support refugees and to satisfy long-standing demands. These included complete transparency in procedures acquiring rights to use Turkish Cypriot properties and the equitable distribution of...
‘Deep state faction’ does not want a Cyprus solution Cyprus

‘Deep state faction’ does not want a Cyprus solution

March 15th, 20196204 Famagusta Mayor Alexis Galanos said that a ‘deep state’ exists within the Republic, which does not want a Cyprus solution and has been influencing the Greek Cypriot side’s stance during talks. According to media reports on Friday, Galanos said during a press conference on Thursday to announce a campaign to promote refugees’...
Cypriots back supporting refugees but not giving citizenship Cyprus

Cypriots back supporting refugees but not giving citizenship

March 8th, 20192736 The majority of Greek and Turkish Cypriots are in favour of supporting refugees in Cyprus but are reluctant when it comes to granting Cypriot citizenship to those who have been on the island for more than five years, an opinion poll by the University of Cyprus Center for Field Studies (UCFS) showed on Friday. Presenting the findings...
13 Syrian migrants found in Oroklini Cyprus

13 Syrian migrants found in Oroklini

March 7th, 20192579 Thirteen migrants from Syria were picked up shortly after midnight in Oroklini, where they had travelled to from the north. The men reported to police they had walked from Syria to Turkey where they remained for four days after which they travelled to the north by boat. They said they paid $5,500 for the trip. After they arrived...
Koursoumba highlights plight of unaccompanied minors   Cyprus

Koursoumba highlights plight of unaccompanied minors  

March 2nd, 20191750 STATE policies and programmes for the transition of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum into independent adulthood are severely lacking, the Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Leda Koursoumba said in a report that emerged on Friday. Koursoumba’s report also highlighted the lack of policies and programmes working...
President raises climate, refugees at EU-Arab League summit Cyprus

President raises climate, refugees at EU-Arab League summit

February 25th, 20191167 President Nicos Anastasiades said the ongoing meeting of the EU-Arab partnership is an important milestone, which highlights the acknowledgement that such strategic relations contribute to the efforts to to promote peace, security, stability and economic growth in the region. Speaking at the first Plenary Session of the League of Arab...
Syrian boy with brain tumour undergoes operation Cyprus

Syrian boy with brain tumour undergoes operation

February 4th, 20192188 An eight-year-old Syrian boy living in Paphos has undergone an operation for a brain tumour in Germany and is being kept in an induced coma. Ahmed Al Shiko was rushed to Germany last Thursday night, accompanied by his father, Abdo, after doctors at Makarios hospital decided he needed to be transferred for specialised surgery,...
Ten Syrian refugees found on cargo ship in Famagusta port Cyprus

Ten Syrian refugees found on cargo ship in Famagusta port

December 30th, 20181794 Ten Syrian refugees were found inside a truck a cargo ship moored in the port of Famagusta in the north, reports said on Sunday. Turkish Cypriot press reports said the 10 were identified inside a truck with Turkish logos on the cargo ship 'Via Famagusta' a car ferry. Investigation are being conducted, a report said.
Thirty-seven refugees picked up in Kato Pyrgos Cyprus

Thirty-seven refugees picked up in Kato Pyrgos

December 30th, 20182609 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...
Man rescued at sea a Syrian refugee whose seven compatriots drowned (updated) Cyprus

Man rescued at sea a Syrian refugee whose seven compatriots drowned (updated)

December 28th, 20182932 A 32-year-old man who was rescued from the sea by a cargo ship on Thursday off Cape Greco was the only survivor of a group of eight Syrians who were on their way to Cyprus, reports said on Friday. The man was picked up by a US-flagged cargo ship after being spotted 15 nautical miles northeast of Cape Greco and alerted Cypriot...
Neither decorations nor lavish meals for many this Christmas Cyprus

Neither decorations nor lavish meals for many this Christmas

December 24th, 20184600 AS DECORATIONS fill homes and streets, and as the majority of people indulge in lavish meals and shopping sprees, there are growing numbers in Cyprus with no home to decorate and no means to provide anything other than the basics. In an effort to spread the Christmas spirit to those segments parts of the population that are often...
State pledges to shelter evicted Nicosia tenants, many refugees   Cyprus

State pledges to shelter evicted Nicosia tenants, many refugees  

December 19th, 20182644 Tensions rose on Wednesday morning in a rundown apartment building near Ohi roundabout in Nicosia when a group of tenants - mostly people from Balkan and African countries, and among them a woman with a month-old baby – tried desperately to convince the landlord not to evict them. Labour Minister Zeta Emilianidou said none of the...
Turkey role in refugee numbers highlighted by House president Cyprus

Turkey role in refugee numbers highlighted by House president

December 18th, 20181779 Turkey’s role in the increasing flow of refugees to Cyprus during the past year was highlighted by House president Demetris Syllouris in his meeting on Tuesday with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Katja Saha. Syllouris referred to relevant data which he says proves that illegal trafficking networks that are operational in the...
Justice minister highlights improvements in human rights Cyprus

Justice minister highlights improvements in human rights

December 10th, 20181177 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...
Refugees stranded on British bases for 20 years can enter UK  Cyprus

Refugees stranded on British bases for 20 years can enter UK 

December 3rd, 20187512 A group of refugees who have been stranded on the British bases in Cyprus for over 20 years have been granted indefinite leave to enter the UK for permanent residence, the law firm representing the families said on Monday. The group of six families numbering 31 in total have been fighting through the British courts to obtain leave to...
A festive meal for Nicosia’s homeless Cyprus

A festive meal for Nicosia’s homeless

December 3rd, 20182683 One woman is determined to provide “a warm full tummy” for refugees and the homeless in Nicosia in the run up for Christmas. Rosie Charalambous, one of the founders of charity Cans for Kids, is organising a Christmas dinner for vulnerable groups on December 20 at the old municipal market in Nicosia’s old city. “I have never...
Use of TC properties could be passed to refugee descendants Cyprus

Use of TC properties could be passed to refugee descendants

November 27th, 20181807 A bill providing for the right of children and grandchildren of refugees who live in Turkish Cypriot property to use the house after the original users pass away is to be soon tabled to the House plenum to vote, MPs said on Tuesday. According to the House refugee committee, the bill, tabled by Disy, Akel and Diko, aims to stop...
Acute need for young refugee shelters Cyprus

Acute need for young refugee shelters

November 25th, 20182652 The recent protests by Zygi residents opposing the building of a new refugee centre for unaccompanied minors have partly focused on whether a new centre is genuinely needed, particularly after it emerged last week that dental tests on those claiming to be under 18 proved that 50 per cent of them were lying. But officials directly...
Canada set to get most refugee claims in nearly three decades Americas

Canada set to get most refugee claims in nearly three decades

November 16th, 20181347 Canada is on track to receive its highest number of refugee claims since record-keeping began nearly three decades ago, the latest data shows, as the government's handling of immigration comes under scrutiny ahead of next year's federal election. Despite cooler weather, the number of refugee claimants jumped past 6,000 in October, the...
Zygi accused of racism over young migrant centre protest Cyprus

Zygi accused of racism over young migrant centre protest

November 9th, 20182901 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...
Outraged Zygi residents halt work on unaccompanied minors centre Cyprus

Outraged Zygi residents halt work on unaccompanied minors centre

November 6th, 20183090 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...
Rescued Syrians to seek asylum Cyprus

Rescued Syrians to seek asylum

October 30th, 20182255 A group of 17 Syrian refugees who had been rescued off the Cape Greco coast on Monday afternoon intend to apply for political asylum, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. Their boat had been spotted at around noon on Monday, at a distance of some 50 nautical miles off Cape Greco in Ayia Napa, police said. At around 5pm, the...
Group of Syrians rescued off Cape Greco Cyprus

Group of Syrians rescued off Cape Greco

October 29th, 20182757 A group of 17 Syrian refugees were transferred on Monday night to the Larnaca police station, after being rescued by marine police earlier in the day off the Cape Greco coast. The boat was spotted at around noon on Monday, at a distance of some 50 nautical miles off Cape Greco in Ayia Napa, police said. At around 5pm, the boat was...
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